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> Mind maps are a great visualization tool. Use them smartly

I’m curious about this, since my experience with mind maps is that they rapidly grow into giant overly-connected graphs that are very difficult to translate to the sort of linear structure a book or blog post needs. What is OP’s workflow for connecting the two?

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I ran in the same issue. And I've created Coco - a Content-as-Code framework to split large graphs / mind maps into small, understandable chunks.

You can take a look at how Coco works here: http://metamn.io/react/on-design-systems-3/ (All figures except the first were made with Coco)

Check out OrgPad if you want to see an evolution of mind maps which is actually useful for serious work. For example this single diagram explains why Clojure is great: https://orgpad.com/s/oirCrD.

Partly related, the No Bullshit Guide to Linear Algebra has a concept map as a first page, which looks really stunning. Author definitely had spent time mindmapping stuff before writing.

https://minireference.com/miniref/lib/tpl/miniref/dist/image...

Author here: In my book, I used mind maps to let the readers visualize a high level summary of a chapter. Here is an example of such a mind map: https://twitter.com/viebel/status/1469187345580793860

What software did you use to create the mindmap?

Lucidchart

Yep. Half the fun/challenge of writing a book (I’m on my fourth) is finding the right linear sequence.

Author here: More challenge than fun!

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