Show HN: An intuitive, offline capable HTML5 mind mapping application

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Post by drichard » Mon, Aug 01, 2011, 1:03 PM UTC

Show HN: An intuitive, offline capable HTML5 mind mapping application
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Post by radarsat1 » Mon, Aug 01, 2011, 2:17 PM UTC

Very nice!

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Post by okal » Mon, Aug 01, 2011, 2:31 PM UTC

Like you mentioned on the about page, image saving would be a nice addition, but it is already quite usable with Local Storage. Another cool feature would be the ability to attach documents to a branch. Do you have it up on github/bitbucket yet? Great work.

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Post by mullr » Mon, Aug 01, 2011, 2:32 PM UTC

I really like the way you implemented the "drag to create a branch" mechanic, it feels very natural. Did you come up with that yourself? Have you seen it elsewhere?

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Post by johnnyg » Mon, Aug 01, 2011, 2:40 PM UTC

The UI on this is lovely.

What is keeping my office from switching to this is sharing ability. Instead of a file base system, consider having it work like google spreadsheets where I can create a link, specify if it read only or editable, and share it around.

A nit pick. Your directions are well written and awesome, but when I create new items, please slide them down so they don't cover my ideas.

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Post by BasLeijdekkers » Mon, Aug 01, 2011, 2:48 PM UTC

Very nice UI, except that it uses the dreaded scroll wheel zoom. Especially annoying for magic mouse users.

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Post by vmind » Mon, Aug 01, 2011, 2:48 PM UTC

Quick few points

* Using scroll for zoom in a 2d workspace probably makes sense with a mouse, but with the macbook touchpad it was rather annoying to be unable to pan around (as moving quickly around is rather a benefit to flicking through a mindmap). Not sure how to fix that, but my inclination would be to offer keybinds for zooming in and out, or an option to allow panning with scroll.

* Behaves badly with browser zoom, you probably want to do some kind of dpi detection and rescale the interface as required.

* Possibly allow moving of the central idea.

* Showing/hiding child branches is very nice.

* Select a links child if you click on it? (as link settings are associated with the child) Also, possible to update the link colour immediately?

Overall very nice.

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Post by mgkimsal » Mon, Aug 01, 2011, 2:49 PM UTC

mullr wrote: post #4

I really like the way you implemented the "drag to create a branch" mechanic, it feels very natural. Did you come up with that yourself? Have you seen it elsewhere?

As cool as the red drop drag is, implementing some standard keys for this will help those who do a lot of mind mapping from the keyboard only.

Other than that, looks good so far.

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Post by 13rules » Mon, Aug 01, 2011, 3:01 PM UTC

Great UI ... will play with this more.

One thing - if I have entered some text and then click somewhere else it should save the text that have I changed instead of reverting back.

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Post by ayanb » Mon, Aug 01, 2011, 3:09 PM UTC

I love the intuitive nature of this tool. Well thought out.

Just curious, how are you generating the id of each node (eg. bc970e26-8d1c-4c92-baf0-aa9f3f792266)?