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H-m-m: Hackers mind map

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Re: H-m-m: Hackers mind map

#21

Nice tool. A question to others who enjoy similar tools: What is the difference between this (or other) tool to a simple document on Gdocs with multilevel bullet lists?

The most obvious benefit is easily handling non-tree interactions.

The fact that it's terminal-centric is also situationally an advantage as opposed to gdocs, but that could easily be solved by vim or something, so I don't think that's quite what you were asking.

Re: H-m-m: Hackers mind map

#22
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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…

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. If you see an embarrassing problem in the program or have an idea for improvement, feel free to contact me; I'd be happy to receive your feedback.

I’m not fond of it being in PHP, either (mostly because I doubt I have it installed to use this), but that doesn’t make this a bad tool, just one that solves someone’s problem.

Re: H-m-m: Hackers mind map

#23
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Wow, a single PHP file, I wasn’t expecting that ^^ Looks cool though, I’ll try it soon :)

Yeah. I do wonder if it is possible to pack this into a standalone binary so that I don't have to install PHP - not due to language bias, but so it might be run without any package installation steps.

Re: H-m-m: Hackers mind map

#25
I showed up to a company wide strategy offsite with an iPad and whipped out a mind mapping tool. For the first ten minutes I could see my boss vibrating because he thought I was fucking around.

By the end of the meeting he wanted a copy, and for me to CC his boss and a couple of his peers.

Re: H-m-m: Hackers mind map

#27
Hey! love the thing. Quick suggestion to the README on the section "Relative navigating and moving" It looks like I have to press H <-, to move left - I am assuming that I can do either or, a la vim. A small copy edit would make that clearer. Kudos!

Re: H-m-m: Hackers mind map

#28
I keep trying mind maps and getting frustrated because my mind works differently. Anybody know of ones that let you start out non-hierarchical?

For me, key nodes are often obvious long before relationships are. E.g., if I'm working with post-it notes, I might write a bunch of notes, cluster them, winnow, and only then want to start locking in relationships between items. Has anybody seen something that's pretty straightforward that supports that approach?

Re: H-m-m: Hackers mind map

#29
Have you considered aligning sublists to the parent node? Right now, your eyes have to leap upwards from a node to get the first child of the list. And since each list has a different length, you have to scan upwards a different amount every time. If every list was aligned with the parent, you could just read left-to-right.
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