Hacker News Reader

If the links between node could be directed and annotated, then it'd become much more powerful, though. Similar to how TheBrain works [1]

I see that the public plugin interface is a long term goal at this point [2] but it'd be amazing if plugins could expose ways to mark up graph relationships!

[1] https://www.thebrain.com [2] https://trello.com/c/Z7qqKVXd/19-public-plugin-interface-v10

View on HN

Still not sure if having a mind map would make it more usable. Do you feel having mind map like this would help you ?

Well, I don't really mean mind map; I don't think those are very useful at least not in the traditional sense.

But yes, I think directed graphs would help me. Take the use case of modeling social relationships: each node is a person or company with a short bio, links can include "funded-by", "worked-with". Suddenly you have a tool that you can use to traverse professional relationships to find a connection to an investor funding a certain type of company. You can sort of do this with LinkedIn and Crunchbase, and it's possible with TheBrain although its UX is very tedious.

Reply on news.ycombinator.com