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Re: Convert Markdown to a Mind Map

#61

Post by GhostVII » Fri, Apr 10, 2020, 6:44 PM UTC

Nice, I always wanted to make something like this for my school notes but never got around to it. One thing that could be useful is if it would let you write longer paragraphs of text, which could be expanded on-demand. Ex.

  # Fruits
  ## Orange
  Oranges were first grown in...
  ## Banana
  Bananas originated in...

Then the mind map would have Fruits -> [Orange, Banana], and you could click on Orange or Banana to expand the full content of the note. This is how I format my notes at least.

Re: Convert Markdown to a Mind Map

#62

Post by visarga » Fri, Apr 10, 2020, 6:47 PM UTC

These mind maps look like MindNode which I think are the best looking.

Re: Convert Markdown to a Mind Map

#63

Post by tunesmith » Fri, Apr 10, 2020, 6:49 PM UTC

Can a child have multiple parents?

Re: Convert Markdown to a Mind Map

#64

Post by ericax » Fri, Apr 10, 2020, 6:57 PM UTC

This looks like really nice! Are you using a open sourced mind map rendering library, or did you write your own?

It visually looks really familiar, but looking at package.json there only seems to be d3. I've looked at a bunch of options for rendering mind map, so I'm particular curious.

Re: Convert Markdown to a Mind Map

#65

Post by ericax » Fri, Apr 10, 2020, 7:31 PM UTC

visarga wrote: post #62

These mind maps look like MindNode which I think are the best looking.

Yes. Looks like the author made his own with D3 [1]. It does look very nice. I especially love the colors.

[1]: https://github.com/gera2ld/markmap-lib/blob/master/src/view....

Re: Convert Markdown to a Mind Map

#66

Post by garmaine » Fri, Apr 10, 2020, 8:23 PM UTC

cuillevel3 wrote: post #29

This looks beautiful, but I guess it's only useful for acyclic maps? References would be great. Just learned, that I'm looking for a 'cognitive map'.

It’s my own pet peeve that basically all mind map software assumes acyclic structure. Makes it pretty useless to me.

Re: Convert Markdown to a Mind Map

#67

Post by rgoodwintx » Fri, Apr 10, 2020, 8:31 PM UTC

edraferi wrote: post #27

robenkleene wrote: post #16

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…

Yup! Every time I see something like this, my thought process is: “Cool, that could be useful for X” “Hmm X is proprietary. I’m not typing into some random website.” “Can I run this locally?” “Nope, not natively. Is it worth my time to hack it?”

Down for this also. If you have a way to sign up for testers etc I'd be up. (Down, up, what is language? :) )

Re: Convert Markdown to a Mind Map

#68

Post by nojvek » Fri, Apr 10, 2020, 9:00 PM UTC

ericax wrote: post #64

This looks like really nice! Are you using a open sourced mind map rendering library, or did you write your own? It visually looks really familiar, but looking at package.json there only seems to be d3. I've looked at a bunch of options for rendering mind map, so I'm particular curious.

They are using only d3

Re: Convert Markdown to a Mind Map

#69

Post by Multicomp » Fri, Apr 10, 2020, 9:22 PM UTC

Hey all - are there any of these systems that can be used offline to take markdown files and export them to SVG, PNG?

I have a couple wild ideas for CLI and/or CICD usage, but I'm not familiar enough with reading JS to know if I can just copy something locally and expect it to work, or if I would need to install a bunch of dependencies.

Re: Convert Markdown to a Mind Map

#70

Post by ericax » Fri, Apr 10, 2020, 10:19 PM UTC

nojvek wrote: post #68

ericax wrote: post #64

This looks like really nice! Are you using a open sourced mind map rendering library, or did you write your own? It visually looks really familiar, but looking at package.json there only seems to be d3. I've looked at a bunch of options for rendering mind map, so I'm particular curious.

They are using only d3

Thanks, I looked at the code later and confirmed that too. The visual style is very similar to MindNode, but it's rebuilt using d3.