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Show HN: Make notes, mindmaps, diagrams online – for studying or brainstorming

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Re: Show HN: Make notes, mindmaps, diagrams online – for studying or brainstorming

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Post by cher14 »

jmickey wrote: post #2

Nice project! Is there a snap to grid functionality? Being able to easily align a diagram is a must have for me.

Thanks. In the development-version there is snap to grid! Hopefully this will be online someday next week. It will let you choose the delta for the grid.

Re: Show HN: Make notes, mindmaps, diagrams online – for studying or brainstorming

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jquip wrote: post #3

This is great! I believe encryption is a must have if you want people to ideate. Both group level and personal. Personal can be free and Group can be monetized maybe?

Thanks for the feedback! What kind of encryption are you thinking about (don't really know much about the topic). Do you mean secure online storage of notes and maps you make ? Or actual encoding of stored maps or https ?

Re: Show HN: Make notes, mindmaps, diagrams online – for studying or brainstorming

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Post by bbotond »

I have been using yEd (https://www.yworks.com/products/yed) for many years on the desktop and I've been looking for a decent online alternative for almost as long.

This looks very promising, the only thing I miss is the ability to export as an image.

Excellent work!

Re: Show HN: Make notes, mindmaps, diagrams online – for studying or brainstorming

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Post by cher14 »

bbotond wrote: post #6

I have been using yEd ( https://www.yworks.com/products/yed ) for many years on the desktop and I've been looking for a decent online alternative for almost as long. This looks very promising, the only thing I miss is the ability to export as an image. Excellent work!

Thanks a lot! I am working on selecting a print region to export a map as pdf. Will look into adding a feature to export as an image. What for you would be the benefit of of exporting as image instead of as pdf ?

Re: Show HN: Make notes, mindmaps, diagrams online – for studying or brainstorming

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Post by cher14 »

dandare wrote: post #7

Very nice job! Just one advice if you don't mind - CANVAS is way much faster for this purpose than SVG, check out https://www.wikibudgets.org/w/svk/hlohovec/2016/ (and Drag&Drop editor https://www.wikibudgets.org/sankey/ )

those are some cool looking diagrams... Something to aim for I have been thinking about using canvas because like you point out, its faster. However I had not worked at all with the canvas and new something about d3.js and svg. d3.js allowed me to use some dragging / events, which I could not have build myself when i started out with this project. That was simply what tipped me in to going with svg. To late to change now...And although there are times when speed is an issue when using the map, its got more to do with some inefficient programming from me.
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