Produce a mind map from an outline.
python3 outmind.py <outline_file>
I created this tool because I was dissatisfied with the available options for creating mind maps. Specifically, all mind mapping software I've tried so far is lacking in the following ways :
- Absent or poor automatic placement of nodes and edges (doing it manually is a pain)
- Editing the mind map is slow, usually due to absent or poor keyboard shortcuts
My recommended worfklow is therefore to open an outline in Vim and to register a command that runs outmind on file save. Open the resulting PDF using a viewer that has hot reloading capabilities, and voila. You can now mind map at the speed of thought.
The outline is assumed to describe a tree, with a single "root" element. The indentation is assumed to be a single space per level.
Root
Child1
Label: Subchild11
Subchild12
Child2
Subchild21
Root
ChildTwoSpaces
- Allow labeled edges
- Implementation idea : edges can be indicated by a colon, e.g.
is:ordered
would create an edge labeled "is" to a node labeled "ordered"
- Implementation idea : edges can be indicated by a colon, e.g.
- Relax requirement to have one-space indentation everywhere
- Implementation idea : infer indentation and normalize to single space before passing to
outline_to_edges
- Implementation idea : infer indentation and normalize to single space before passing to