From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: stardiviner Subject: Re: Visualizing org files Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2018 13:27:20 +0800 Message-ID: <878t40hex3.fsf@gmail.com> References: Reply-To: numbchild@gmail.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:40796) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1g1nhV-0004eW-Lu for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Mon, 17 Sep 2018 03:12:06 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1g1nhQ-0003yT-VV for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Mon, 17 Sep 2018 03:12:04 -0400 Received: from [218.75.119.140] (port=56618 helo=dark.localdomain) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1g1nhE-0003tm-6o for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Mon, 17 Sep 2018 03:11:51 -0400 In-reply-to: List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Emacs-orgmode" To: Marcelo de Moraes Serpa Cc: Org Mode Marcelo de Moraes Serpa writes: > Hey all, > > I'm a long org-mode user and I absolutely love it. During the years I've been using org, > nothing else came close to being so simple and so powerful as org - and I a lot tried > different productivity apps. > > One thing that would nicely complement org, in my opinion, would be a visualization mode > for its buffers. Right now I sometimes use Freeplane*[0] to draft/brainstorm complex > ideas or problems/solutions and then attach it to an org item and write more specific > action items there. > > It'd be nice to have everything in a Freemind map, if needed. What I'm proposing is a way > to visualize org buffers in Freeplane and vice-versa. > > It could also be a script that uses something like graphviz*[1] to create a graph of one > or more org buffers, like Sasha Chua did here: http://pages.sachachua.com/evil-plans/, > although I prefer using Freeplane since it allows me to edit the org file as a mind-map, > visually, if I want. > > I think a script to automatically transform the Freeplane XML to org > and vice-versa I have same idea. I know there is an package called ox-freemind. It can export Org to mindmap. The really awesome is real-time synchronize visualization Org and Mindmap program. I don't know how to implement at Freemind or Freeplane etc mindmap program side. But Org side should not be that hard, because markdown real-time preview is possible. > wouldn't be too hard to come up with. The graphviz solution is also interesting and Sasha > already provides the snippets. > > Are any other people out there that are already doing something similar to what I > described above? Maybe we could share some ideas on how to tackle this feature or if it'd > be worth adding it into the org core ;) > > Cheers! > > - Marcelo > > *[0] https://www.freeplane.org/wiki/index.php/Home > *[1] https://www.graphviz.org/ -- [ stardiviner ] don't need to convince with trends. Blog: https://stardiviner.github.io/ IRC(freenode): stardiviner GPG: F09F650D7D674819892591401B5DF1C95AE89AC3