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H-m-m: Hackers mind map

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Re: H-m-m: Hackers mind map

#13
I'm old enough to remember when pockets of the Freemind[1] community aspired for that application to reach something of this state. Sadly, development forked and work on the original project stalled pretty hard.

Great stuff - thanks for sharing!

[1]http://freemind.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Main_Page

Re: H-m-m: Hackers mind map

#14
OK, cool idea, but..

- Why is this written in PHP? Who builds CLI applications in PHP? Everything looks like a nail, I guess? - Why did you choose your own custom serialization format instead of using something universally supported, like JSON? It's literally more effort for you and everyone else involved for zero benefit. - I love CLI applications and CLI navigation(vim-style, etc) but it really feels like a missed opportunity for this to not have any sort of web UI, since it would be very natural to click, zoom and pan around.

Re: H-m-m: Hackers mind map

#15
post #14

OK, cool idea, but.. - Why is this written in PHP? Who builds CLI applications in PHP? Everything looks like a nail, I guess? - Why did you choose your own custom serialization format instead of using something universally supported, like JSON? It's literally more effort for you and everyone else involved for zero benefit. - I love CLI applications and CLI navigation(vim-style, etc) but it really feels like a missed…

Near the bottom of the README, it says:

Programming is not my career, but rather a hobby, and I developed h-m-m because I wanted to have something like this and couldn't find one. Therefore, what I've done here may have a lot of room for improvement.

It makes sense to me that a hobbyist might well build a CLI in whatever is convenient for them, and not know to look for standard serialization formats.

Re: H-m-m: Hackers mind map

#18
post #4

Looks like a mind tree. Can it do proper graphs?

Not nearly as hacker-y as this, but I'll plug Reflect here. Probably my favorite tool for this so far. Best continually-improving UX, but there's a subscription cost. I happily pay it.

Do you have a link?

Re: H-m-m: Hackers mind map

#19
Awesome. I am using PHP for some college classes and I can certainly say that I would never want to use it for something like this, but the fact that someone did is pretty awesome. I will definitely be using (probably a fork that I rewrite in a language that I will be willing to maintain) a lot for sure. Awesome work!
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