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Oliver Brendel<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mstdn.games/@britt" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>britt</span></a></span> <a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/mindmaps" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>mindmaps</span></a>, always. When paper, a mix with <a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/SketchNoting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SketchNoting</span></a> , on the computer <a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/FreePlane" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FreePlane</span></a> . Haven't found anything good yet for Android.<br>For learning from a talk or a textbook. I prefer hand-drawn/-written notey : <br><a href="https://theconversation.com/which-type-of-note-taking-is-better-for-learning-laptop-or-pen-and-paper-250404" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">theconversation.com/which-type</span><span class="invisible">-of-note-taking-is-better-for-learning-laptop-or-pen-and-paper-250404</span></a></p>
Amethysta Herrick, Ph.D.<p>How do we answer the question "Who am I?" Will the answer change over our life? If so, how do we track the changes for our best life? Use <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/MindMaps" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MindMaps</span></a> with John Diggs to recharge your search for <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/identity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>identity</span></a>!</p><p><a href="https://purpl.pw/johndiggs" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">purpl.pw/johndiggs</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/trans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>trans</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/transgender" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>transgender</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/lgbtq" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>lgbtq</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/GenderIdentity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GenderIdentity</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ScienceOfIdentity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ScienceOfIdentity</span></a></p>
Winbuzzer<p>Google Expands NotebookLM with Mind Maps To Visually Manage Complex Topics</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/GoogleAI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GoogleAI</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/NotebookLM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NotebookLM</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/GenAI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GenAI</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/MindMaps" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MindMaps</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AIAssistants" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AIAssistants</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/GeminiAI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GeminiAI</span></a></p><p><a href="https://winbuzzer.com/2025/03/20/google-expands-notebooklm-with-mind-maps-for-visual-research-xcxwbn/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">winbuzzer.com/2025/03/20/googl</span><span class="invisible">e-expands-notebooklm-with-mind-maps-for-visual-research-xcxwbn/</span></a></p>
Heather Harvey 🏳️‍🌈 🏎<p>I had forgotten the power of using a mindmap for keyword research. Took out my coloured pens &amp; got scribbling today to help with my research for a niche topic. It's really helped to trigger plenty of ideas for further investigation. </p><p><a href="https://seocommunity.social/tags/SEO" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SEO</span></a> <a href="https://seocommunity.social/tags/mindmaps" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>mindmaps</span></a> <a href="https://seocommunity.social/tags/KeywordResearch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>KeywordResearch</span></a></p>
vp<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MH_gwM60xgE" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">youtube.com/watch?v=MH_gwM60xg</span><span class="invisible">E</span></a><br>We made a huge journey from personal notes to nonlinear note-taking tools like <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/mindmaps" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>mindmaps</span></a> and <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/conceptmaps" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>conceptmaps</span></a>. , super complex second brain apps and derivatives like <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/obsidian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>obsidian</span></a> and <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/logseq" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>logseq</span></a> that build on top of the idea of <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/backlinks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>backlinks</span></a> </p><p>I always had a feeling that I had a big missed tool. <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/knowledgegraph" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>knowledgegraph</span></a>. </p><p>How do you take the complexity of <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/rdf" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>rdf</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/sparql" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>sparql</span></a> and other magic and bring convenience to a <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/knowledgegraph" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>knowledgegraph</span></a> ?<br> mykin.ai <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/kin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>kin</span></a> as <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/personal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>personal</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/ai" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ai</span></a> build a <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/personal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>personal</span></a></p>
Jacob Sam-La Rose<p>Pour one out for iThoughts. <a href="https://www.toketaware.com/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">toketaware.com/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p>Made the switch to <a href="https://toolsforthought.social/tags/mindmaps" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>mindmaps</span></a> and <a href="https://toolsforthought.social/tags/visualthinking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>visualthinking</span></a> in MindNode mid-last year for aesthetics and the ability to sync task nodes with Reminders, but iThoughts offers features that MindNode still lacks (e.g. targeting specific nodes through a URL scheme). </p><p>Sad to see Toketaware go. iThoughts will continue to function until a future <a href="https://toolsforthought.social/tags/iPadOS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>iPadOS</span></a> <a href="https://toolsforthought.social/tags/iOS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>iOS</span></a> <a href="https://toolsforthought.social/tags/macOS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>macOS</span></a> update breaks something. </p><p>😢</p>
Excalidraw<p>Taking things up a notch, we're releasing the text-to-diagram feature! 🔥</p><p>Using <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a> to generate diagrams from plain text. 🧠</p><p>Unlike wireframe-to-code previously, you don't need your own API token — everyone can start generating right away -&gt; excalidraw.com 💪</p><p>Other exciting things coming soon! 🔥</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/gpt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>gpt</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/openai" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>openai</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/texttocode" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>texttocode</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/wireframes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>wireframes</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/diagrams" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>diagrams</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/mindmaps" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>mindmaps</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/code" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>code</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/artificialintelligence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>artificialintelligence</span></a></p>
🏁⚡Omar Two Tone⚡🏁:verified:<p>Dev Roadmaps: guides and paths to learn different tools or technologies 👇️💡️🧑‍💻️</p><p><a href="https://roadmap.sh/roadmaps" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">roadmap.sh/roadmaps</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p><a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/devs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>devs</span></a> <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/software" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>software</span></a> <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/technologies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>technologies</span></a> <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/mindmaps" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>mindmaps</span></a> <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/diagrams" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>diagrams</span></a> <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/knowledge" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>knowledge</span></a> <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/softwareengineering" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>softwareengineering</span></a> <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/programming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>programming</span></a></p>
kcm<p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://beige.party/@purplepadma" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>purplepadma</span></a></span> If you don't already know the technique, you might find Mind Maps helpful. I find them a useful planning tool and my wife can use them to take (lecture etc.) notes. I learnt them back in the early 80s from one of Tony Buzan's disciples. For more see inter alia <a href="https://www.mindmapping.com/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">mindmapping.com/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a>, <a href="https://www.mindmeister.com/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">mindmeister.com/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> and of course Wikipedia.<br><a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/mindmaps" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>mindmaps</span></a></p>
Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️<p>Addendum 7</p><p>MindMap: Knowledge Graph Prompting Sparks Graph of Thoughts in LLM<br><a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.09729" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">arxiv.org/abs/2308.09729</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p>* addendum 4<br>* prompt LLM w. knowledge graphs<br>* engages LLM w. ext. knowledge; elicits reasoning pathways<br>* prompting endows LLM capable of comprehending KG inputs<br>* mind map on which LLMs perform reasoning, generate answers<br>* ontology of knowledge<br>* GPT-3.5 prompted w. MindMap consistently outperforms GPT-4</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/LLM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LLM</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/KnowledgeGraphs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>KnowledgeGraphs</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/MindMaps" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MindMaps</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/GraphOfThoughts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GraphOfThoughts</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/GPT3" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GPT3</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/GPT4" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GPT4</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/PromptEngineering" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PromptEngineering</span></a></p>
Elizabeth Tai | 戴秀铃 🇲🇾<p>The text based nature of <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/Obsidian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Obsidian</span></a> notes concerns me... because the only way I could remember what I studied is through mind maps. I got an A in pre-law by condensing a chapter in 1 page. The challenge of doing this forced me to remember what I studied in a vivid way.</p><p>I did it with good old pen and paper, and I doodled and drew. My notes were little works of art 🤣 and it was very easy for me to revise cos all I needed was a couple of pages of notes.</p><p><a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/NoteTaking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NoteTaking</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/MindMaps" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MindMaps</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/Learning" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Learning</span></a></p>
Joseph A di Paolantonio<p>… a static web page builder, for security and ecological reasons. I’ve also been thinking about <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/secondBrains" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>secondBrains</span></a>. I have been using <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/mindMaps" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>mindMaps</span></a> for as long as we have been blogging; it is time for <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/conceptMaps" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>conceptMaps</span></a> and <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/KnowledgeGraphs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>KnowledgeGraphs</span></a> There is also the utility of private, secure <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/LLM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LLM</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/GPT" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GPT</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/GenAI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GenAI</span></a> fine tuned on our own knowledge graphs. And like <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/b2evolution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>b2evolution</span></a> multi-author, multi-blog <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/pingback" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>pingback</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/trackback" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>trackback</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/RSS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RSS</span></a> and now <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ActivityPub" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ActivityPub</span></a> (I know <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/fediverse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>fediverse</span></a> WriteFreely, etc). Quivr comes close…2/3</p>
LiviaCH<p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://sueden.social/@BlumeEvolution" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>BlumeEvolution</span></a></span> <br>Ich kann mir Sachen immer am besten merken, wenn ich sie selbst geschrieben habe. Mein meinem Sohn funktioniert das in der <a href="https://troet.cafe/tags/Schule" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Schule</span></a> so auch am besten. Mit einer Ergänzung: Er macht meistens gleich <a href="https://troet.cafe/tags/Mindmaps" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Mindmaps</span></a> von den Themen, die er <a href="https://troet.cafe/tags/lernen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>lernen</span></a> muss, das klappt dann noch besser.</p>
Christopher Noessel<p>I post <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/sketchnotes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>sketchnotes</span></a> to social media. There’s a bunch on birdsite, but I’ll start tooting here. I <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/sketchnote" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>sketchnote</span></a> talks at conferences, some videos I watch online, &amp; stuff I read. I do <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/MindMaps" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MindMaps</span></a> of writing in progress. I most often use the GoodNotesApp on an iPad Pro with Pencil.</p>
Mark McElroy<p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://pkm.social/@TfTHacker" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>TfTHacker</span></a></span> - About <a href="https://pkm.social/tags/MindMaps" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MindMaps</span></a> and <a href="https://pkm.social/tags/outlines" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>outlines</span></a>: <a href="https://pkm.social/tags/Mindnode" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Mindnode</span></a> is my personal favorite mind mapper. Also: with one click, it can show the mind map and the outline view side by side, as you mentioned wanting <a href="https://pkm.social/tags/Xmind" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Xmind</span></a> to do</p>
Anomielia the #DREADpirateNotes app recommendations wanted.