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Show HN: Make notes, mindmaps, diagrams online – for studying or brainstorming
- jmickey 10y agoNice project! Is there a snap to grid functionality? Being able to easily align a diagram is a must have for me.
- cher14 10y agoThanks. In the development-version there is snap to grid! Hopefully this will be online someday next week. It will let you choose the delta for the grid.
- jquip 10y agoThis is great! I believe encryption is a must have if you want people to ideate. Both group level and personal. Personal can be free and Group can be monetized maybe?
- cher14 10y agoThanks for the feedback! What kind of encryption are you thinking about (don't really know much about the topic). Do you mean secure online storage of notes and maps you make ? Or actual encoding of stored maps or https ?
- bbotond 10y agoI have been using yEd (https://www.yworks.com/products/yed https://www.yworks.com/products/yed) for many years on the desktop and I've been looking for a decent online alternative for almost as long. This looks very promising, the only thing I miss is the ability to export as an image. Excellent work!
- cher14 10y agoThanks a lot! I am working on selecting a print region to export a map as pdf. Will look into adding a feature to export as an image. What for you would be the benefit of of exporting as image instead of as pdf ?
- bbotond 10y agoPDF is great if you want to print but nothing beats the simplicity of a PNG for displaying on a web page or inserting into a Word document.
- michaelbuddy 10y agohave you seen mindmup?
- dandare 10y agoVery nice job! Just one advice if you don't mind - CANVAS is way much faster for this purpose than SVG, check out https://www.wikibudgets.org/w/svk/hlohovec/2016/ https://www.wikibudgets.org/w/svk/hlohovec/2016/ (and Drag&Drop editor https://www.wikibudgets.org/sankey/ https://www.wikibudgets.org/sankey/)
- cher14 10y agothose are some cool looking diagrams... Something to aim for I have been thinking about using canvas because like you point out, its faster. However I had not worked at all with the canvas and new something about d3.js and svg. d3.js allowed me to use some dragging / events, which I could not have build myself when i started out with this project. That was simply what tipped me in to going with svg. To late to change now...And although there are times when speed is an issue when using the map, its got more to do with some inefficient programming from me.
- parr0t 10y agoDefinitely going to be trying this. It's almost exam time for me and I always make mind-maps to help visualize and drive concepts home. Good job!
- cher14 10y agoThanks! hope it helps and good luck with the exams.
- Moter8 10y agoHello, you might want to work on the Call to Action button/link. For me there was no clear indication where I should click to try it out. Also, the text and logo at the left don't seem to be centered in the left "region". It seems too close to the screenshot to me. In the program itself, this http://i.imgur.com/I6oHv7c.png http://i.imgur.com/I6oHv7c.png seems really confusing. The pointer makes it look like I can actually drag it, but that's not possible.
- cher14 10y agogreat feedback, I get now how the pointer can be confusing, will change that very soon. I will also take a look at a clearer 'to the map!' I have had more feedback about this, and made some changes, but apparently not good enough. Thanks!
- rajanchandi 10y agoCool stuff. I'd have liked to see a signup box to leave my email.
- cher14 10y agoThanks for taking a look. can I ask what you expect after leaving your email ? Would you expect a newsletter about more features, new examples etc ?
- jlgaddis 10y agoI was just looking for something exactly like this a few days ago -- to help me plan out a large new project. I ultimately ended up doing everything on paper, but I'm going to try it out anyways. Hoping for the best!
- arc_of_descent 10y agoGreat job! My current project involves a whole lot of SVG and I'm quite happy with the performance. I'm using the Snap svg library and some hard coded SVG. Perhaps d3.js is causing the dragging to slowdown? Have a look at SNAP.svg
- 56k 10y agoI don't get the logo :-/
- mxuribe 10y agoSo is this a sort of online alternative to MS Visio?
- cher14 10y agoWell not exactly. It would be best described as a mix between MS one-note and MS Visio and Powerpoint (coming soon).
- 0x54MUR41 10y agoCool project! I usually use Draw.io [1] for making a flowchart and diagramming. Before that, I used Microsoft Visio. But, online tools help me more because we can synchronize our works in the cloud. [1]: https://www.draw.io https://www.draw.io
- TobalJackson 10y agoMultiplayer support planned? Being able to collaborate with a tool like this is something I've looked for for a while.
- cher14 10y agoCollaboration by saving and sharing maps / notes using github gist is something I plan to make pretty soon. Collaboration as in simultaneously working on the same map in some form or the other is something I have been thinking about, but really have little idea about implementing yet.