Thanks, it's great. I'm a fan of mind mapping[1] to express some ideas.
Convert Markdown to a Mind Map
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#72Something similar I used to use to design PBX call flows: https://code2flow.com/app
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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? :) )
Definitely! There’s an email sign up at the bottom of the page here https://repla.app/
The app is already available to download and try, with a couple of interesting use cases you can read about on the site. We're also shipping a Markdown preview that's in testing now shortly. The next plugins we're looking at after that are Mermaid (https://mermaid-js.github.io/mermaid/#/) and now Markmap too.
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#74Calling them mind maps recalls why they failed, when they are really digraphs, taxonomies, and basic ontologies.
Having worked with these for a while, some people actually think their job is to be the stewards and gatekeepers of knowledge that can in fact be easily encoded into a taxonomy and ontology to make it scale.
I love these, and every tool like this is fundamentally subversive. Just don't be surprised when someone tries to discredit it.
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Related tangent: Roam^1 is a graph-based webapp that supports hierarchies, bidirectional linking, and an interactive graph view. Dunno about the step to get it into svg, but you may find it useful for any number of things. HTH 1. https://roamresearch.com
Interesting, thanks!
My pleasure!
(Wish I could account for the unexpected downvoting on my comment which was relevant, intended to be helpful, and - at least to you - was confirmed to be so.)
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#76Nice, 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…
Yeah this breaks down if you use anything more than a few words per node, because it has no wrapping. I think even if you had the text blocks wrap at a sane width (20% of screen-width or something) then it would be more better, or expandable/modal blocks like your idea.
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#77I 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…
Thanks for the input! I'm also looking at supporting Mermaid diagramming https://mermaid-js.github.io/ I'd love to hear if people have other good use cases for this model, e.g., of having a plain text file you edit in a text editor accompanied by a rendered web document view of the same file.
Main problem I've had using mermaid for large flowcharts is that the SVG gets cut off on the edges sometimes.
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Not sure what gliffy is but Graphviz can conceptually draw the same thing. You can have box shapes and colors for nodes and edges both. However, the rendering layout itself is usually unpleasant. You can have some control but it's really suboptimal. As I said, Graphviz is both simple and very powerful so no reason to not use it to represent data in concept. Plus it goes in your VCS.
Gliffy[1][2] is a web app for drawing diagrams and schematics of various kinds. You get a large library of shapes - most of UML, classic flowchart, some UI mockups, swimlanes, now also the root of a mindmap - and a few tools for connecting these shapes to each other; the connections are real connections, not lines, ie. they follow after the shape if you move it, and they know when they intersect and can render a "hop…
Some of what you want is offered by Miro.com. It’s not driven by text files though.
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#79I 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…
Thanks for the input! I'm also looking at supporting Mermaid diagramming https://mermaid-js.github.io/ I'd love to hear if people have other good use cases for this model, e.g., of having a plain text file you edit in a text editor accompanied by a rendered web document view of the same file.
Mermaid can be plugged into Pandoc, so you can create decent PDF docs in Markdown that include diagrams. We store the Markdown files in git and have a Makefile that converts to PDF.
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Wow thanks for this, never heard of it before despite years of searching for a plantuml replacement!
@flarg, just curious, why do you need a Plant UML replacement? I just used it to make a bunch of séquence diagrams, component diagrams and wireframes :)
They keep doing crazy things like the recent Covid alert, who knows what else they put in their code base. They've lost my trust.