Re: Visualizing org files

[Samuel Wales <samologist@gmail.com>]

pretty unrelated, but a reminder that there is org-du | xdu or so
which shows subtree byte counts.

On 9/7/18, Bingo <right.ho@gmail.com> wrote:
> Le 8 septembre 2018 04:48:18 GMT+05:30, Marcelo de Moraes Serpa
> <celoserpa@gmail.com> a écrit :
>>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 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/
>
> Hi,
>   There have been attempts for similar things.
>
>  1. There was org-freemind :  https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/FreeMind. To
> convert between org and freemind files. It went out of maintenance and
> bitrotted. Doesn't work anymore, but the code is available for you to play
> with.
>
> 2. There is org-mind-map : https://github.com/theodorewiles/org-mind-map .
> Simple, and it works. It uses graphviz. It is somewhat based on Sacha's
> evil-plans.


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