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I'm the same way. Mindmaps are by far the best tooling for how I think. They're also just not portable. I keep trying. It would be awesome if mind maps could be united with a console somehow, so that I could inject things from "wherever".

I've spent a lot of time caring about KM/KB and can't settle on anything that survives more than 2 years. What do you do today?

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I once built a mind map with a “MUSH” interface (text-based, where you traverse the map “on ground level” as a character). You avoid information overload by showing the synopsis as you “enter” a node, then you could say `e[xamine] here` to view the whole text.

Traversal is quicker than you’d think, and it would likely work well on mobile devices.

It was years ago, but I still think about making that in to something “real”.

I keep everything in a combination of OneNote and Google Sheets, which I link back to Salesforce with the Salesforce connector for Google Sheets. It is... not perfect, but spreadsheets were the only way I could find to quickly get the information down that I wanted to.

This is the combination of things that originally led to my loving TagSpaces. I wanted local files that I could edit, have folders of varying file types, and include documents in the folders, opening as needed. Part of the issue was that I then wanted to link to, and from varying files... basically a knowledge base that was independent on data types.

Turns out that image capture, and document sync was the least of my problems. The mind maps, image data not being OCRed, and other things became a pain.

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