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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.
Congratulations on shipping! It looks great.

What do you normally use this sort of thing for?

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.
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.
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!
This looks great and very useful. Thank you!
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 :-)

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.
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/

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.

>vehiculates the concept of identity as a first citizen.

What the heck does that even mean?

It’s a perfectly cromulent sentence.
AFICT this replacement is hosted on Github pages, so there shouldn't really be any funding concerns.
Amazing! Such an attention to detail! Love that it continues stabilizing while I'm dragging individual items. Thanks a lot for sharing this!
My antivirus software blocked the site as malicious. I would think it's a false positive but the AV hasn't marked anything bad in the past year --- first time seeing the message. ( Also blocked the Markdown Editor)
That's weird. What antivirus do you use? And does it say anything about what caused the block?
bitdefender: an infected object has been detected on this page.

doesn't say which objext

Clean and intuitive UI, thank you for creating and sharing.
Looks awesome! We're in the process of building a knowledge graph and were looking for a more intuitive way to manage the main hierarchy. Adding node autocomplete would a great way to do that, especially if it could pull in existing children and dump them to text.

What's the license?

Can you explain a bit more of your knowledge graph / hierarchy? I've been working on something like this myself.
We're building a food/nutrition knowledge graph. Goal is to be able to take a product, recipe or restaurant dish that someone ate and determine what type of food it is, cuisine, ingredients, dietary properties and etc.
Sounds really awesome - any mailing list or social media where I could follow the project?
We have a newsletter sign up form on bite.ai but haven't really emailed anyone yet. The API is coming soon though so we'll probably send out a message when we launch it.
This is very helpful. Just yesterday I was using mindnode and thinking it is overkill for 80% of my mindmapping tasks. Thank you.
Fantastic launch. It's intuitive, responsive, interactive, understandable, and cross-platform. Thank you.

I'm a longtime user of a piece of Mac software called Tinderbox which I've used use to create mind-maps (linked knowledge trees) and Text2MindMap compares very favorably in that its directness and intuitive workflow allows for immediate and direct visualization.

There's also something about the animation implemented here that for me seems to stimulate my thinking as I add nodes.

Really good stuff here.

Kudos to you for so polished a product.

Good luck.

This looks very cool, thank you! I have an issue, though: Can't open the File and Mind Map menus, neither on Firefox nor Chromium nor Opera.
Whoops, that should be fixed now, as soon as GitHub Pages updates.
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Same. Tried in Safari and Chrome. Upon inspection, looks like something is going wrong with the styles. Changing .dropdown-content{position:absolute;} to position:fixed; brought them back for me.
Looks neat!

Tried 1+ top level nodes and it automatically marked them as a child of first one. Not sure if this is broken or is a feature tho, just wanted to comment.

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Looks like this could be useful for rdf/linked-data. Maybe for json-ld too.
Really cool tool, thanks! Maybe you could add bold text as well? Just a thought!
Very nice. But are the "File" and "MindMap" menu items supposed to do something? (like export the file). On both Safari and Chrome they don't seem to have any behavior.
Yeah sorry about that, it's fixed now.
Simply Great, super neat. Especially that drag around on the nodes. Thank you for sharing.
Nice. Could you add google login so my students could save their work?
CTRL-N is apparently a shortcut for new? Nice thought but this runs into standard navigation supported in OS X and most Unixes of using CTRL-N to go down a line. Kind of hard wired for me to navigate text boxes using CTRL-N and CTRL-P so would recommend another shortcut.

Otherwise very neat!

Xmind has the outline editing mode that I find very useful for this very reason. Sure it's not just a simple text file but it also doesn't require edit and presentation on different places/apps.
Very cool. Might be nice to have standard positions so things are organized by default and don't require additional clicks.
This is great stuff! You should look into integrations with dynalist or workflowy.

Also being able to read an OPML file would be a wonderful add too.

Good work.

Ok, this confirms what I had though. Mind maps are just hierarchies with a different layout from normal.
Yea, presumably in the visual format you could connect to root nodes together. Or do weird ancestor joins which would be impossible to represent in this tabbed format. But I guess that might be breaking the "mind map rules".
Act fast and add a signup field so you can get the emails of people like me who want to know when you start a hosted service.
Good idea. I added a link to a mailing list, which'll do the job until I make something better.
It doesn't seem to work at all for me. Not sure why, I've checked with Chrome and Firefox on Linux (using i3 tiling window manager). I see the text outline on the left and the white pane on the right, where I assume I should see a mindmap. I see nothing but white in the large right pane, so maybe there's something you're supposed to do to get it to draw the mindmap, but I can't figure out what.
There was a bug with the styling, that should be fixed now.
Nope, still the same, can't see any mindmap or any button to click to create one.

However, I can now see some blue text up above and to the right of the menu items, which when clicked takes me to mailchimp for email. That text is unreadable for me, though, not enough contrast with the black background it's on.

I don't know what I'm supposed to see, but I assume there's supposed to be a mindmap graphic somewhere. This is what I see on both Firefox and Chrome on my system: https://screenshots.firefox.com/REX701nPf7jUrYbw/tobloef.com

I think that might be a problem with the caching. I'll look into forcing a cache refresh.
Okay, seems to be working now. And mailchimp link is visible in 'subscribe to newsletter' over by github and twitter icons.
I love this, very simple yet power. Bookmarked for future use. Any chance of an offline version?
Add svg/pdf export and a map that grows without cropping and that would be ace
I was going to make something like this, but I wanted it across all devices, synced to google docs based on yaml. Is there such a thing already?

The use case is really just textual entry on pcs and consumption/light editing on mobile.

This is really fantastic. Such a simple concept that works so well.