Long ago, in a Previous post from 2009 I discovered mind mapping. Since moving this blog back over to a markdown backed system I have been tinkering with MermaidJS, an included plugin that lets one create very nice diagrams from a markdown-ish syntax. It has a feature for mindmapping, so I got curious over the weekend if I could recreate some of the mind maps from that previous post. Here we go…

mindmap
  root(RRE Web Presence)
    Media/PR
    Community
      RRE.net
      Earthboard
      Social
    Official
      Social
      RRE.com
      iPhone app

Ok well, it’s not the prettiest, but it gets the job done. The social networks graph is pretty wild:

mindmap
	Social Networks
		Last.fm
		Pandora
		Facebook
		Ning
		Twitter
		Myspace

And this community site that I envisioned:

mindmap
	RRE.net
		Forum - I guess this was going to replace the earthboard?
			Forum view
			List view
			Email list
		The Forecast - this was something about the climate
		Photos?
		Others?
		Setlists - oh hey, I built this once
		Links
			Fixed
			Aggregated - not really sure what these mean

conclusion

Yeah, I don’t know. It gets the job done, but there are probably some styling tips that would take this rough sketch toward where the iPhone app was in 2009.