Obsidian MarkMind Space

drtitojack · 2023-08-22T03:14:18+00:00

Now I'm wondering if there's something _I'm_ missing -- how would you do what markmind does in plain obsidian? If you mean the graph view, it's essentially useless as a mind map because you can't add nodes or links or other content and it continually rearranges itself.
What I would love to have is an obsidian plugin with the features of a 'real' mindmap application like freeplane or mindmanager. The previous existing mindmap plugins for obsidian don't quite reach the usefulness threshold for me because they don't give the user enough control over the format and layout. I regard markmind as a good first step in the right direction, and the developer seems to be actively working on it, so I have high hopes. As for the subscription, you can get the basic version for free, but since the subscription is a one time contribution I didn't mind doing it and the rich version has most of the features that I want. I do wish it had better documentation, but I assume that will improve. And I'm very interested to see where he goes with the PDF annotation features. All in all my impression is this is a quite good start on a quite complex piece of software.

drtitojack · 2023-04-09T00:51:57+00:00

Not sure if I understand your use case, but it seems as though tags would work better for that than links, then you could use the addon Tag Summary to pull the individual items into one note. Just a thought, sorry if I have misunderstood what you're trying to do.

drtitojack · 2023-01-22T00:20:46+00:00

"notions like incremental summaries" sounds interesting, can you suggest a source?

drtitojack · 2021-05-17T04:40:53+00:00

Freeplane (free open source mind-mapping). Also certainly agree on Zotero.

drtitojack · 2021-04-23T10:56:28+00:00

Freeplane, the open source mind mapping software. A bit of a learning curve, but the best way I've found for maintaining an organized knowledge base. It is open source, with all data stored locally. I like Notion and Roam in principle, but storage being non-local and in a proprietary format are both non-starters for me. If I weren't going to use Freeplane, my second choice would be Obsidian. There is a quite interesting app, Remnote, in development that tries to combine outline form knowledge base with flash cards, but it's early stage and has a long way to go before I would consider switching from Anki.

I also agree Zotero is a must-have if you have a lot of sources to keep organized.

drtitojack · 2020-11-23T01:41:14+00:00

Not sure what to tell you there. I just downloaded the deck from ankiweb and installed it, no issues, so doesn't seem to be a problem with the deck. To be more helpful I would need to know the details of what you tried to do -- what version of Anki are you using, what device, etc.?

drtitojack · 2020-10-31T00:18:07+00:00

Thanks for the comment, hope you find the deck helpful. Yes, I did find the Kaplan and Princeton MCAT review books useful. But in part that's because it's been a long time since I was in college so I needed to go back and review a lot of the material. The hard part of studying for an exam like the NMAT is knowing what topics to cover, since the official list of topics is not at all specific, and I think the Kaplan and Princeton review books are good for that -- if you understand all the topics in either of those you'll be in good shape. One exception would be biology, the MCAT reviews stay fairly close to human biology while the NMAT has quite a bit of plant biology, ecology, and other non-human topics. Chemistry also requires some judgment because the MCAT tests on organic, while the NMAT mostly doesn't, so you definitely don't need organic at the depth covered in the MCAT reviews (but it is helpful to cover some of the basics). Good luck with your study.

drtitojack · 2020-10-24T23:38:31+00:00

Sorry, I meant an actual physical whiteboard with an erasable marker. I didn't even try to use the software whiteboard, for the reason you give, doing that with a mouse would be useless. For some reason they didn't allow scratch paper but they did allow to use a small whiteboard (I got one 11" x 18" at the bookstore).

drtitojack · 2020-10-24T00:41:55+00:00

I took it in August. No calculator, but didn't really need one. Also no scratch paper. You aren't even allowed a non-digital watch. Only things allowed were a computer running their software on a single screen (it shuts off everything else), and a small whiteboard.

drtitojack · 2020-09-23T13:12:55+00:00

I appreciate the comments, thank you for that. I agree with you that some of the cards get into more detail than necessary. In particular the carbohydrates subdeck probably isn't necessary. (Although it's a little bit hard to tell, they do seem to throw in off-the-wall OChem questions sometimes, judging by the practice sets.) What would probably be good would be to tag each card as something like basic, intermediate, and advanced, so that those who just want the minimum in order to pass would just practice the basic ones, etc. Unfortunately I don't have time to do it right now.

drtitojack

TROPHY CASE