Similarly, there's a suckless tool called sent:
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#62Personally I'm a very keen on Markdeep: https://casual-effects.com/markdeep/
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#63Now if we can just get proper mindmapping in Markdown. I've tried all the libraries I could find and while they are pretty neat they still lack linking and other things like you'd get from XMind.
I've had trouble understanding the use case for mindmapping software, so I'd be curious to hear what you use Xmind for! I feel like I'd have to constantly fight with the layout to prevent my diagrams from turning into a big spaghetti mess. For most of the demos on their website, a simple nested list seems just as effective at communicating the same information.
I haven't used XMind recently, but previously I found it great to use for studying or for brainstorming where I could easily show connections or hierarchy within thoughts. When trying to understand complex ideas or even sometimes architecture I find it easier to display in a mind map at first than to use other diagramming software. I think of it like tiling window manager.. rather than manage all the windows myself, the mind map software does it for me.
Re: Show HN: MarkShow – Create Slideshows with Markdown
#64Looks nice. Related, if you already have Pandoc installed, you can get single markdown file => slideshow with Reveal.js (which the showcased site is based on) for free with pandoc -s -t revealjs slides.md -o slides.html You can choose other implementations too, like good old Slidy: pandoc -s -t slidy slides.md -o slides.html
This method works well. I made a template repo to standardize the process: https://github.com/13rac1/rjsmake