On Monday, February 17, 2020 at 11:55:32 PM UTC-5, Thomas Passin wrote: > > I just found the MindForger project. This actually looks like it might do > a lot of what we like, and very nicely. [snip] > In addition, it's a Markdown editor renders to a panel, and exports to > HTML. > > So it sounds interesting. It is the fourth generation of similar software > by the developer, so he has a lot of experience in getting right. Also, > it's an open source project, hosted on GitHub >
After working with MindForger some, I think it's interesting but doesn't quite get to what I'd like. It has one display mode that's much like Leo's - but I think that Leo's is more suitable, since it's more readable for scanning over the outline pane. It doesn't have a backward-forward equivalent to Leo's, and I've found that to be really annoying. There are other displays, but I mostly didn't find them helpful. And the feature I thought was going to be a mind map - well, it's not really a mind map but a touchgraph-like display (anyone remember touchgraph?). And that's not really what I'm looking for. Another feature looked really interesting. When you create or edit a "note", the program automatically computes a "similarity" value to other notes in the system. These values are displayed in an ordered list. and clicking on one takes you to that note. Great! But in practice, I didn't find it very helpful - too many unhelpful links, and no way to get back after you traverse one. If I had thousands of notes, that list would become unworkably large, I think. So at this point I'd rather work on bringing the capability into Leo, which can just about do the basics of what I want as it is. We might want to adapt certain features from Mindforge, though. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "leo-editor" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to leo-editor+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/leo-editor/9f27c2d5-bb6b-4757-b1e4-b9fe1b0b6e0d%40googlegroups.com.
