TOTomte·May 26, 2022Submission
Org-brain: Org-mode wiki and concept-mapping
46 points · Open discussionKungsgeten
org-brain
Emacs Lisp2017–2022
Kungsgeten / org-brain
org-brain
Org-mode wiki + concept-mapping
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Org-mode wiki + concept-mapping
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> What speed and precision are you missing? It seems that org mode should have the capacity to establish any content connection scheme you could dream up. That's what I thought…
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| 2017 | 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 2018 | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 1 | 1 |
| 2019 | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| 2020 | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2021 | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2022 | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 1 | 0 |
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9 sourcesNo open-source command line option, e.g. GraphViz?
I would prefer to have local control of data, Git SCM, editing with my favorite text editor, etc.
Any tool suggestions subject to the above constraints? Bonus points for smooth Org Mode integration in Emacs.
Edit: Followup: https://github.com/the-ted/org-mind-map, https://github.com/Kungsgeten/org-brain, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16593274
In Mind Mapping Software in 2020Also checkout out org-brain [0]. Similar idea - linking concepts, but a completely different implementation. A much more mature project.
[0]: https://github.com/Kungsgeten/org-brain
In Using Anki to remember what you readHow about something like org-brain [1] or simply an index, using headlines like you would otherwise use hierarchical tags?
[1] https://github.com/Kungsgeten/org-brain
In I find journaling indispensable> What speed and precision are you missing? It seems that org mode should have the capacity to establish any content connection scheme you could dream up.
That's what I thought too, but I haven't been able to accomplish it yet.
In InfoSelect I had a tree on the left that I could filter instantly and incrementally while I typed in the full-text search box (imagine org-sparse-tree + helm-org-rifle on steroids). In Evernote I have a double hierarchy of notebooks and tags (vaguely based on The Secret Weapon [1]) that allows me to create a new project tag where I pull together new action notes, meeting notes, and old notes from my 17-yo knowledge base. I'll have anything between 5 and 20 ongoing projects that I can toggle quickly on the left hand navigation bar. The notes are shown in a table where I can click on the header to sort by title, c
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reated date, or updated date, so I can find what I need within a few seconds.
I can also do a mixed full text/tag/date search adding filtering criteria as I go. In org, I have to decide beforehand what kind of search I want, and if it's a mixed search the syntax becomes very cumbersome.
With org, I can do none of the above on mobile.
In practice, this means that I have more trouble finding things in my 14 month-old org setup than I do in my 17 year-old knowledge base.
> What does KB mean?
"Knowledge Base", sorry for dropping the acronym without definition!
> All a gui like the brain is doing is putting animations and a mouse on top, we can definitely specify things via the keyboard in a number of ways to replace the mouse, and who wants animations to begin with?
I have zero problems with using the keyboard. I've been using vim and editors with vim keybindings since the 90s and my favorite laptop of all time doesn't even have a touchpad. There are cases however where specialized GUI affordances can be helpful. I would say that navigating a huge graph of nodes using mind-map-style partial views is probably one of them. I know there's a brave soul trying to pull this off in Org [2] and I sincerely wish them success.
> If the main pull at the end of the day is that GUIs are pretty and text UIs aren't then let me point you here
Pretty is also important but the default Spacemacs theme is pretty enough for me. Mixing fixed and proportional fonts would be nice, I've had that on my to-do list for a while.
[1] https://thesecretweapon.org/
[2] https://github.com/Kungsgeten/org-brain
Kulfon [1] is a static site generator that compiles Org Mode to HTML without using Emacs. You can just drop `.org` files in a directory and run a one-command tool to make this work. I use it for my website, mostly to write blog posts. It is also possible to mix Markdown and Org Mode files in a single project/directory.
Kulfon is my own project, so take it with a grain of salt. I've decided to focus on Org Mode as I also believe this format doesn't get the recognition it deserves. It doesn't mean Markdown is bad, au contraire, it is almost perfect. In Org Mode, for instance, I still cannot get used to the source code blocks. It is, however, good to have a choice.
The Org Mode support in Kulfon is not perfect yet, but good enough for most situations. It is based on a JavaScript plugin by Xiaoxing Hu called orgajs [2]. You can use it directl
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y in your project.
One of the motivations for building a SSG with Org Mode was Org Brain [3]. I have a plenty of interconnected notes that I would like to publish on my website « as-is ». This would be rather difficult to do using Markdown format.
[1]: https://kulfon.org/
[2]: https://github.com/xiaoxinghu/orgajs
[3]: https://github.com/Kungsgeten/org-brain
Org-brain – mind-mapping for org-mode
190 points · Open discussionI would look at org-brain: https://github.com/Kungsgeten/org-brain
I think this is also what Emacs-Muse is supposed to do, but I have never understood that program.
In Org-Mode for Visual Studio CodeOrg-mode wiki and concept-mapping
4 points · Open discussion