For those who use Markdown and Atom this plugin might also be of interest: https://atom.io/packages/markdown-mindmap
Exactly what I needed, thank you!
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#72nice work! doing quick graphs is very easy when you use paper and pen, but it's always been a pain to do with a computer!
I assume this tries to be simple enough, but maybe it would be nice if we could have some extra, quick formatting, like dashes, like in lists (-) to stack elements, or other symbols for different layouts, quick access to colors, etc. I know handling multiple layouts and auto-placement with springs simulation can be tricky, but hey... in any case, thanks again for the work, hopefully it inspires more people to work along these lines!
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#73OP: https://gingkoapp.com/ will blow your mind
This looks great, I'm really looking forward to giving it a try. I've been using Trello to accomplish the same thing for a while, but it hasn't been ideal. Thank you for posting that.
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#74A few months ago one of my favorite tools http://www.text2mindmap.com went down and since there doesn't seem to be any plans to bring it back up I created my own version of the site. It's basically just a quick mashup between some of the code from the original site and some code from my Markdown Editor ( https://tobloef.com/markant/ ), but I hope someone will find it as useful as I did.
Amazing! Such an attention to detail! Love that it continues stabilizing while I'm dragging individual items. Thanks a lot for sharing this!
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#75Earlier quoted context omitted.
Congratulations on shipping! It looks great. What do you normally use this sort of thing for?
Thanks. I use it as I would a normal mind map, to organize ideas and sometimes visualize trees of data. I just find the text-based approach to creating mind maps a lot faster and simpler than using the various other online tools, even though it's a bit more limited.
I've used one in the past to organize my monthly routine. Seeing the "size" of my expectations for each week helps a lot. I used text2mindmap for this and a few other things. Didn't realize it was down, thanks for this!
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#76The idea is great, but the nodes constantly rearranging and floating around (and overlapping) makes the actual "mind mapping" hard to do, at least for me. When I look at something like that, make a few changes on the left, I would expect the right side to stay relatively the same or at least change in a more predictable way.
> the nodes constantly rearranging and floating around Sigh. So there's like three decades of research on interactive graph layout stability. And almost none of it has become available as code. Much of graph layout is like that. Perhaps VR/AR will finally create sufficient incentive to make it more accessible.
Any suggestions on where in the literature to get started if I wanted to play around with different graph layout algorithms?
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#77Hey guys,
That's basically what I'm doing with my new Mindmapping tool in dev, Wigwam. I'm pre-launch, but you guys are welcome to check it out.
Let me know what you think!
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#78I started something similar, but it's been gathering dust lately. FWIW, some differences were: Graph instead of tree. I'm rather baffled by the popularity of mindmaps. Even on paper, I do cyclic graphs of typed nodes and links. So the end of text lines could optionally contain link targets, node types, and "use this link type for these children". Outline mode for text. Mirrored in the graph. 3D graph. I'm mostly inte…
Hey this sounds very interesting! Is it open source / where can I read more?
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#79Hey guys, That's basically what I'm doing with my new Mindmapping tool in dev, Wigwam. I'm pre-launch, but you guys are welcome to check it out. https://www.wigwams.io Let me know what you think!
Looks great!
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#80Hey guys, That's basically what I'm doing with my new Mindmapping tool in dev, Wigwam. I'm pre-launch, but you guys are welcome to check it out. https://www.wigwams.io Let me know what you think!
Looks pretty good, I'm looking forward to trying it out. The UI a bit more cluttered than I would like, but it's nice to see something like this more fleshed out than what I posted.