Show HN: Create mind maps to learn new things using AI

Very interesting!

My first thought when seeing this is, could I use this as a "progress map" for a subject I'm learning? So add my own notes, and use AI to find and recommend more resources?

My second thought is, can you build one of these for everything I've ever learned, and want to learn?

I've long (15 years?) been waiting for a system that knows not only my interests, but my knowledge, and can use that data to find or generate the optimal learning experience for any subject.

(Khan Academy used to have a big interconnected graph of how all the knowledge on their platform fit together (dependencies) but for some reason they removed it...)

AI is getting pretty close, especially now that they've rolled out memory and conversations... wild times we live in!

@andai check out https://www.perplexity.ai/spaces its _kind of_ what you are describing.. it's UX is unstructured compared to a mind-map or timeline. But we are starting to see the nascent stages of where all this is going. exciting times indeed.

that's a very interesting use case, could be the long-term vision for the project, thanks for sharing!

Smells like a knowledge graph

You could take a look at Obsidian [1], or similar knowledge management tools. There is certainly a lot of movement in the plugin ecosystem right now, for example the obsidian-canvas-llm-extender [2], which (likely) does what you're asking for.

1: https://obsidian.md/ 2: https://github.com/phasip/obsidian-canvas-llm-extender

> Khan Academy used to have [...] but for some reason they removed it

I'm quite saddened by all the stuff that's been removed from Khan Academy over the years. Most of the non-maths content has been removed. The knowledge graph has been removed, etc. I've stopped donating to them because every time I use it, the experience has gotten worse.

I always found Obsidian and whatever other tools a huge time investment by itself with more effort to use them than actually getting the managed knowledge.

Same for Anki, Notion, Zettelkatsen etc. Even ignoring the setup cost, it costs as much effort to insert in something as it does to retrieve it. The value prop tends to be low for individuals.

Do they ever explain why they removed this content?

Anki doesn’t belong on this list

As much as I love Anki there is enormous friction in creating the cards, especially as a beginner. And you very easily get overfitting when you keep seeing the same question.

A technique I've found that works for learning languagea in Anki is to generate or download massive deck, suspend all of it and then whenever I encounter an unfamiliar word in the wild I unsuspend it and set it up for review. Takes like 5 seconds.

I had the exact same wish for an interconnected knowledge map, so I'm building it myself! Please check out https://onri.ai, which plots all human knowledge on a Google Map, with their dependencies. I'm still building out the navigation algorithm and user features, but please let me know whether that fits your use case :)