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Re: H-m-m: Hackers mind map

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post #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!

Done :)

Re: H-m-m: Hackers mind map

#62
post #59

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Not mine, I am not affiliated with this tool, but I thought along the same lines as you and found this tool, could you give it a try and let me know what you think? https://kinopio.club/

That looks like it's worth trying out, also I like the pricing model, god damn am I sick of monthly subscription.

But it looks like it is monthly (or yearly with a two month discount).

Re: H-m-m: Hackers mind map

#63

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.

Would you mind explaining a little more?

Re: H-m-m: Hackers mind map

#64
post #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 strai…

Depending on the topic I'm working on, sometimes I need an approach similar to what you explained. I still use a mindmap, open a first-level node called 'temp' and start adding everything there and keep sorting them. As soon as a structure starts to emerge, I create other nodes and move those items to their new places. This is based on the assumption that your final output would be a tree with one-to-many relationships rather than a graph with many-to-many relationships. I've seen tools for organizing many-to-many relationships, but I never had the need to use one.

Re: H-m-m: Hackers mind map

#65
post #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 strai…

I'm the same as you. Obsidian[0] is non-linear and has worked for me.

0. https://obsidian.md/

Re: H-m-m: Hackers mind map

#66

Love the idea. Their website is full of goodies. The graphic for the p3 express framework is pretty cool. https://p3.express/manual/v2/

I'm glad you like it :) To be clear, this mind mapping application is my personal project and P3.express is a group effort and I'm one of its contributors.

Re: H-m-m: Hackers mind map

#67
post #36

I'm getting a 255 return code when I try to run it. php v.7.4.3. Permissions are all ok. Anybody else have this problem?

This is why you take a few seconds to be considerate to your users and potential contributors and put a 5 line Dockerfile in the repo

You can either run the code or develop on the code with no more "works on my machine" that way

Something like this should have done it:

   FROM php:8
   # install that mbstring library
   CMD ["however", "you", "start", "php", "apps"]

Re: H-m-m: Hackers mind map

#68
post #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 strai…

The only time I ever use them is when I’m making notes about something and realize that there are a lot of cross references. Helps to see them.

Also I like to use them in new organizations to map out the people I meet to make sense of who knows what about a topic. Especially in big orgs.

Re: H-m-m: Hackers mind map

#69
Can anybody point to some resources that would help someone who's interested in trying to use mind mapping?

I often see these mind map things and I'm interested in learning what benefits they can provide me, but I have no idea how they're actually used. My searches have only yielded people using them as study aids.

Re: H-m-m: Hackers mind map

#70

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

Its fork, freeplane, is what I use: https://docs.freeplane.org/.
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