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Posted by Alexander Deliyannis
Dec 12, 2011 at 04:11 PM
Dr Andus wrote:
>there are outliners that use ovals: mind-mapping and concept-mapping software
>(some of which can convert the maps to outlines at a click of a button). So I suppose
>there would be more of those, if screens were oval too…
I believe the same would happen if they were much bigger: the issue is how much they limit the field of vision. If a monitor is wider than our field, then the shape of its edges is irrelevant.
I.e. I doubt that the rectangle shape of (big) classroom blackboards limited the use of oval Venn diagrams and the like.
Posted by Lucas
Jul 9, 2018 at 04:03 PM
Seven and half years later, MindForger looks to have come a long way:
It is now billed as a “Thinking Notebook & Markdown IDE”.
It runs on Mac and Linux. (I don’t have access to my Mac right now, so I haven’t tried MindForger yet.)
Posted by mseliger
Mar 9, 2020 at 05:22 PM
MindForger is now at version 1.5.2.
https://github.com/dvorka/mindforger
The program works on Linux, Mac and Windows.
Some interesting new features:
- AutoLinking: If you have a note with a word / sentence it is linked to a note with the same name. You have to enable this feature in the configuration file.
- Link Completion
- Live preview of the markdown files
One big advantage against most other solutions: The program writes pure markdown files, which can be edited / view by any other markdown editor. And you can copy your files / your MindForger repository to an android device and you have fully functional markdown pages which you can view / edit on the device with Markor (https://f-droid.org/en/packages/net.gsantner.markor/).
Posted by Lb
Mar 9, 2020 at 10:32 PM
Thanks for the info. I installed MindForger a few weeks ago but haven’t been able to try it out yet. Now that you mentioned how to get the information to Android I’m going start sooner.
Posted by mseliger
Mar 10, 2020 at 05:57 AM
A Notebook in MindForger is a whole markdown document. The Notes in MindForger are part of a notebook and they are presented as “Heading 2” in the markdown document.
On Android you can define a path where the markdown documents are stored. So you have to copy (all / selected) markdown documents from the MindForger repository on your Android Device and set the path of Markor Markdown editor to the folder, where you have copied the documents.