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Re: Convert Markdown to a Mind Map

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Post by grafwiz » Fri, Apr 10, 2020, 9:39 AM UTC

This is beautiful that's it but this is nothing considered to graphviz. If Graphviz had a decent, just non-ugly renderer it would be much more popular.

Eg. Mind maps aren't trees- they are bigraphs, this is limited to trees.

Someone needs to plug in this renderer with Graphviz.

Re: Convert Markdown to a Mind Map

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Post by thereyougo » Fri, Apr 10, 2020, 9:40 AM UTC

That's awesome!

Do you have examples for cool this you did with it? I'd like to get some inspiration

Re: Convert Markdown to a Mind Map

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Post by baq » Fri, Apr 10, 2020, 9:44 AM UTC

i like that it's done in JS.

i've been using this for a while: https://plantuml.com/mindmap-diagram

Re: Convert Markdown to a Mind Map

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Post by chvid » Fri, Apr 10, 2020, 9:50 AM UTC

Buggy on Safari (SVG doesn't always show / updates correctly).

Otherwise great work.

Re: Convert Markdown to a Mind Map

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Post by fsiefken » Fri, Apr 10, 2020, 9:53 AM UTC

Org-mode has an exporter for the Freemind mindmapping tool. Freeplane is a fork of Freemind https://www.freeplane.org/wiki/index.php/Home

Re: Convert Markdown to a Mind Map

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Post by robenkleene » Fri, Apr 10, 2020, 9:55 AM UTC

I make an app for macOS that makes it easy to make offline viewers for documents like this (https://repla.app/). Would anyone be interested in having an offline viewer for this? E.g., being able to drag a `mindmap.md` file to the app icon, and have it render the mindmap and automatically update when you make changes in your text editor.

(I'm aware there are other ways to do offline views like this, happy to explain the relative pros and cons of Repla's approach versus others as I see them, if anyone is curious, just ask!)

Re: Convert Markdown to a Mind Map

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Post by stats111 » Fri, Apr 10, 2020, 9:58 AM UTC

This is great. Is there anyway to have it set vertically?

Re: Convert Markdown to a Mind Map

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Post by sturza » Fri, Apr 10, 2020, 10:02 AM UTC

Can i create a mindmap from my notion pages?

Re: Convert Markdown to a Mind Map

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Post by BiteCode_dev » Fri, Apr 10, 2020, 10:05 AM UTC

dnpp123 wrote: post #5

Cool! Slightly related, I also like: https://www.diagram.codes/

I just discovered that there are so many of those. Here is a list supported by asciidoctor as an extension: https://asciidoctor.org/docs/asciidoctor-diagram/

Mairmaid looks nice

Re: Convert Markdown to a Mind Map

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Post by indysigners » Fri, Apr 10, 2020, 10:11 AM UTC

It's absolutely fantastic and very timely for an new IA project of mine. Thanks so much, Gerald (Gera2ld)!