Re:Show HN: Turn indented text into mind maps
by TobLoef on Thursday March 29, 2018 @09:58AM
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A few months ago one of my favorite tools http://www.text2mindmap.com went down and since there doesn't seem to be any plans to bring it back up I created my own version of the site. It's basically just a quick mashup between some of the code from the original site and some code from my Markdown Editor (https://tobloef.com/markant/), but I hope someone will find it as useful as I did.
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Re:Show HN: Turn indented text into mind maps
by cabaalis on Thursday March 29, 2018 @01:31PM
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Do you know why it went offline? I'll assume lack of funding. What would be the best way to make a niche-app like this self-funding, given developers' aversion to ads? Donations? Monthly/Annual subscription? I have a similar site that I want to spin up, that serves a different purpose but has a similar interface.
Re:Show HN: Turn indented text into mind maps
by dschep on Thursday March 29, 2018 @01:56PM
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AFICT this replacement is hosted on Github pages, so there shouldn't really be any funding concerns.
Re:Show HN: Turn indented text into mind maps
by mcjiggerlog on Thursday March 29, 2018 @01:35PM
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Really something like this shouldn't rely on being hosted by one person. A decentralized protocol like dat[0] would solve this problem.
[0] - https://datproject.org/
Re:Show HN: Turn indented text into mind maps
by cbenz on Thursday March 29, 2018 @06:34PM
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Or Secure-Scuttlebutt, which vehiculates the concept of identity as a first citizen.
Here, the social aspects could be useful, like following my friends mind maps etc.
Re:Show HN: Turn indented text into mind maps
by TrevorJ on Thursday March 29, 2018 @08:31PM
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>vehiculates the concept of identity as a first citizen.
What the heck does that even mean?
Re:Show HN: Turn indented text into mind maps
by stephenr on Friday March 30, 2018 @01:00AM
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It’s a perfectly cromulent sentence.
Re:Show HN: Turn indented text into mind maps
by kadrian on Thursday March 29, 2018 @04:52PM
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Amazing! Such an attention to detail! Love that it continues stabilizing while I'm dragging individual items. Thanks a lot for sharing this!
Re:Show HN: Turn indented text into mind maps
by JepZ on Thursday March 29, 2018 @11:51AM
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After using it for half a minute I love it already!!!
One thing I am missing thought is the ability to hide sub-nodes within the mind map.
Thanks for sharing :-)
Re:Show HN: Turn indented text into mind maps
by abrichr on Thursday March 29, 2018 @10:25AM
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Congratulations on shipping! It looks great.
What do you normally use this sort of thing for?
Re:Show HN: Turn indented text into mind maps
by TobLoef on Thursday March 29, 2018 @10:30AM
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Thanks. I use it as I would a normal mind map, to organize ideas and sometimes visualize trees of data. I just find the text-based approach to creating mind maps a lot faster and simpler than using the various other online tools, even though it's a bit more limited.
Re:Show HN: Turn indented text into mind maps
by themarkn on Thursday March 29, 2018 @05:24PM
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I've used one in the past to organize my monthly routine. Seeing the "size" of my expectations for each week helps a lot. I used text2mindmap for this and a few other things. Didn't realize it was down, thanks for this!