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Would you use it if you could use AI to generate mind maps with one click?

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5 pointsJellyfish0019 comments

I think half the value of a mindmap is going through the process to create it.

That said, it really depends a bit on what the mindmap is for. Their website lists several examples including what seems to be more technical documentation. For that sort of thing it'd probably be quite good.

No, it's akin to using a forklift at the gym

Yeah, I agree. The point of making mind maps is the relationships your brain makes between topics and subjects. Having an AI generate this for you won't help with recall or understanding a subject because it's not how your brain relates concepts. It's how some machine thinks they are related.

Doing markup for a mind map makes AI unnecessary; you can just run it through Graphviz/PlantUML/Vega/Mermaid at that point. To really flex, GraphGPT creates graphs from natural language.

OpenAI only for now, I'm afraid.

github project page:: https://github.com/varunshenoy/GraphGPT

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I think the mind-map might provide an interesting interface / visualization of AI assisted thinking.. I don't think AI is quite there yet, but it could be..

For instance, it might be interesting to do free association type thinking alongside an ai with a mind-map like visualization of the ideas and concepts we treat.

For instance, a concrete example, use the ai to suggest different intermediate nodes to link two existing nodes. Like, "Ways to get from [vehicle] to [food]"

No. What is the point? Mind maps are for clarifying your thinking and exploring ideas. They are an incredibly poor method of communicating ideas to others. I've never had someone present a mind map to me where I haven't then had to ask them to explain what is going on in prose.

Is this available as a feature in xmind or is this an idea postured to potential competitors?

They probably will announce something new from this article, but I'm not sure.

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