Collaborative Mind Map of Knowledge

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2 points·neurocroc··4 comments

This is a wonderfully ambitious project, but mind maps are really, really the wrong thing for this. They are basically trees, but knowledge is a web. Linear Algebra, for example, shouldn't live only under math because it's heavily involved in machine learning, graphics, and many other areas.

It's an excellent venture, but it needs a way better system for organisation and navigation.

I understand your point. I try to implement it as a web of things though as indicated by arrows going through and between each of the nodes. Each node is a tree yes, but together they form a connected web of nodes and trees where each node is another graph that can go as deep as it wants.

And I do agree that linear algebra is not just a subset of math but is connected to all the varying disciplines and I try to indicate these connections with arrows. Most of the important ones at least, otherwise the graph will just get messy.

The idea is to expose knowledge in a visual way and attempt to solve the problem of discoverability on the web.

I can't see what to do, how to search, how to browse, or, in short, how to make use of this.

It needs something more - it feels like it's seriously lacking in discoverability. It's currently also failing to load:

https://my.mindnode.com/83qmKgoATj8TyKzprzsPfoirxa2g9WmFGx3x...

I've bookmarked it, but I don't know what to do with it.

Thank you for your feedback, I really appreciate it.

I plan to solve this issue with providing a web search engine in the future. I have laid out the plan here (https://github.com/nikitavoloboev/knowledge-map-search-engin...)

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