[TobLoef]

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.

[cabaalis]

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.

[dschep]

AFICT this replacement is hosted on Github pages, so there shouldn't really be any funding concerns.

[mcjiggerlog]

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/

[cbenz]

Or Secure-Scuttlebutt, which vehiculates the concept of identity as a first citizen.

https://scuttlebutt.nz

Here, the social aspects could be useful, like following my friends mind maps etc.

[TrevorJ]

>vehiculates the concept of identity as a first citizen.

What the heck does that even mean?

[stephenr]

It’s a perfectly cromulent sentence.

[kadrian]

Amazing! Such an attention to detail! Love that it continues stabilizing while I'm dragging individual items. Thanks a lot for sharing this!

[JepZ]

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 :-)

[abrichr]

Congratulations on shipping! It looks great.

What do you normally use this sort of thing for?

[TobLoef]

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.

[themarkn]

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!

[pintxo]

Like it, might use it as a online alternative to FreeMind, which allows pure keyboard control, so kind of similar, at least from my perspective.

[bryan11]

This looks great and very useful. Thank you!