Re: Mind-map
Totaly Benoit
A mind map is a diagram used to visually organize information into a hierarchy, showing relationships among pieces of the whole.[1] It is often created around a single concept, drawn as an image in the center of a blank page, to which associated representations of ideas such as images, words and parts of words are added. Major ideas are connected directly to the central concept, and other ideas branch out from those major ideas.
Mind maps can also be drawn by hand, either as "notes" during a lecture, meeting or planning session, for example, or as higher quality pictures when more time is available. Mind maps are considered to be a type of spider diagram.[2]
Buzan's specific approach, and the introduction of the term "mind map", started with a 1974 BBC TV series he hosted, called Use Your Head.[6] In this show, and companion book series, Buzan promoted his conception of radial tree, diagramming key words in a colorful, radiant, tree-like structure.[7]
Cunningham (2005) conducted a user study in which 80% of the students thought "mindmapping helped them understand concepts and ideas in science".[10] Other studies also report some subjective positive effects of the use of mind maps.[11][12] Positive opinions on their effectiveness, however, were much more prominent among students of art and design than in students of computer and information technology, with 62.5% vs 34% (respectively) agreeing that they were able to understand concepts better with mind mapping software.[11] Farrand, Hussain, and Hennessy (2002) found that spider diagrams (similar to concept maps) had limited, but significant, impact on memory recall in undergraduate students (a 10% increase over baseline for a 600-word text only) as compared to preferred study methods (a 6% increase over baseline).[13] This improvement was only robust after a week for those in the diagram group and there was a significant decrease in motivation compared to the subjects' preferred methods of note taking. A meta study about concept mapping concluded that concept mapping is more effective than "reading text passages, attending lectures, and participating in class discussions".[14] The same study also concluded that concept mapping is slightly more effective "than other constructive activities such as writing summaries and outlines". However, results were inconsistent, with the authors noting "significant heterogeneity was found in most subsets". In addition, they concluded that low-ability students may benefit more from mind mapping than high-ability students.
There have been some attempts to create mind maps automatically. Brucks & Schommer created mind maps automatically from full-text streams.[16] Rothenberger et al. extracted the main story of a text and presented it as mind map.[17] There is also a patent application about automatically creating sub-topics in mind maps.[18]
Mind-mapping software can be used to organize large amounts of information, combining spatial organization, dynamic hierarchical structuring and node folding. Software packages can extend the concept of mind-mapping by allowing individuals to map more than thoughts and ideas with information on their computers and the Internet, like spreadsheets, documents, Internet sites, images and videos.[19] It has been suggested that mind-mapping can improve learning/study efficiency up to 15% over conventional note-taking.[13]
The following dozen examples of mind maps show the range of styles that a mind map may take, from hand-drawn to computer-generated and from mostly text to highly illustrated. Despite their stylistic differences, all of the examples share a tree structure that hierarchically connects sub-topics to a main topic.
Hi. The Obsidian Mind Map Plugin is Mindblowing and it is to good to be a plugin. This should be a core feature of Obsidian. If you ever have created Mindmaps then try this out. Credits to James Lynch to make the Mind Map plugin. Check it out : obsidian-mind-map/README.md at main lynchjames/obsidian-mind-map GitHub
I have installed it from in Obsidian and that did work perfect. But I also got the same problem as you that when I change the md file sometimes i got No content. In that case I close the file (CTRL+W) and reopen and then it works. I also noticed that the Mindmap opens below the md file and I prefer to the right. I hope that @James Lynch will fix these bugs.
Currently you can only export as image (SVG format though). Maybe export in mm format (FreeMind) would not be too difficult to implement. You can suggest new features and improvements as GitHub issues.
Hi. On the 3 dots at the top you can do copy a sreenshot and you can past that screenshot direct in Obsidian or in any other app. If you want do do more advanced things I advice you to use Snagit from Techsmith. -capture.html
That will probably do the trick in most cases. However, when the Mindmap gets very large, a screenshot cannot be accurately interpreted into text using OCR, which has been my current workaround for adapting high resolution info graphics out of the tight hierarchical arrangement of content that the plugin provides. Technically, I rarely use every piece of text, but it saves so much scroll time to pull text from a Mindmap layout (used as a library) as opposed to the source text that produced it.
You can use any of it (I am using SimpleMind), and attach the files to an EN note. Personally I think EN should stick to core functions and not try to mimic everything that already exists in numerous apps.
For a visual Mindmap you could use the sketch function build into EN. Best functionality you probably get with an iPad + Apple Pencil. Editing the result is as always with these tools not as simple as in an object oriented mindmapping tool, where you can easily move and reconnect nodes.
...what @PinkElephant said. I use Freeplane for mind-mapping and attach JPG views to notes from time to time. If you check out the menus on your Mapping app - they tend to be rather detailed. Imagine adding all that to Evernote's menu structure!
This is something I wish I could do more often, but mapping bigger projects manually is too troublesome (and virtually impossible due to the size of the sheet) and since I can't find any mind mapping software that fits my needs and allows me to display the map in the visual structure I want I often leave the mind maps in my mind alone, no visual representation whatsoever...
Can anyone suggest a good mind mapping software that allows me to do something like the above? I've tried FreeMind and XMind so far but their visual structure is too rigid for what I need.
Doxygen, in addition to automatically generating HTML documentation and class hierarchy diagrams, is also capable of generating complete dependency graphs and call graphs for your libraries and applications. You just need to configure it appropriately so that it will generate the type of documentation that you want.
Note that Doxygen uses GraphViz and its dot tool to generate those graphs. While you could use GraphViz directly, Doxygen is able to parse the code and extract the necessary information needed in order to pass it along to GraphViz/Dot and have it generate the appropriate graph visualizations.
If you are looking to create these graphs before you have a product... in other words, to plan out your code rather than to document it, then you might be interested in a UML design tool such as ArgoUML. You can use it to diagram inheritance as well as dependencies, and you can generate code from the UML diagrams.
If you want to create these kind of diagrams manually, and you just want a general-purpose drawing tool, then OpenOffice has a drawing tool, although I have found that making it look nice can be quite difficult.
I wonder if you might be better suited with a general-purpose diagramming software - while it might not have quite as fluid an approach to specifically mind-mapping, it should be far more versatile in terms of how to display them.
You could use IHMC CmapsTool a free concept mapping software. It does not restrict you to a tree-like structure, a very easy to learn tool, it allows you to label links between items (concepts) so your maps should be easy to understand by other people. Multiplatform Java based.
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