Closed drcxd closed 3 years ago
Hi! No, there's no functionality to visualize a single file. The closest thing would be to use M-x org-brain-switch-brain
and visualize the directory containing the file. This, however, creates an org-brain datafile, which adds some clutter to your directories.
Hey drcxd, did you try obvz? https://github.com/swhalemwo/obvz
You might like it. It can export the concept maps as .svg or .png for example. You have various settings like showing a few more sentences for each entry in your concept map or not. Showing the edge labels or not for example.
Hi! No, there's no functionality to visualize a single file. The closest thing would be to use
M-x org-brain-switch-brain
and visualize the directory containing the file. This, however, creates an org-brain datafile, which adds some clutter to your directories.
Thanks for the answer. I am quite satisfied with how org-brain
currently works while I am getting more and more familiar with it. Could you consider my suggestion of creating something like .git
in the brain directory to store metadata, including pinned nodes, history or anything is related to the brain in question?
Finally, thanks for creating such a terrific productivity tool in emacs. I like it so much.
Hey drcxd, did you try obvz? https://github.com/swhalemwo/obvz
You might like it. It can export the concept maps as .svg or .png for example. You have various settings like showing a few more sentences for each entry in your concept map or not. Showing the edge labels or not for example.
Thank you for the heads-up. I just read the README file and it would be a good add-on for org-brain
.
Just use both together. Working nicely here. I would recommend changing colors a bit. Then all looks more interesting imo.
Thanks for the answer. I am quite satisfied with how
org-brain
currently works while I am getting more and more familiar with it. Could you consider my suggestion of creating something like.git
in the brain directory to store metadata, including pinned nodes, history or anything is related to the brain in question?
org-brain
already stores a data file including some meta data. It is named .org-brain-data.el
.
I am looking for a tool which could convert a org-mode file to something like a mind map.
I have found org-mind-map and org-graph-view. They are, however, not in active maintenance.
Then I found org-brain. It has many advantages comparing to the other tools. First it's an online tool, I mean, I could easily edit my org file and see the results in
org-brain-visualize
rather than converting org file to another file. Second, I could jump into anywhere in the org file from theorg-brain-visualize
buffer.However, I could not find a way to use org-brain in a path-independent manner. I mean, I have to put every org file into a particular path, if I want to visualize it using org-brain. Is there anyway I could just open a random org file located in anywhere, and then visualize it using org-brain? Of course, org-brain could only use headlines as entries, but this suffices in many situations.
After a second thought, I think it is still good to limit a brain in a certain path. However, could you apply a pattern like git? I mean, each brain is like a repository or a project. At the root of each brain, a folder named like
.brain
could be used to store all the meta data of the brain. Currently, I saw the pinned nodes are stored in a local file. However, information like history is stored globally.