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

Nice example of using AI for something but (like most “mind map” tools) the output isn’t a mind map, it’s a spider diagram.

The point of a mind map is to label the line and not the node. This helps the brain form a visual and spacial connection between ideas where the lines act as bridges to the next concept/idea.

Not faulting the creator here, looks like a solid implementation of AI making spider diagrams, good job.

30 years of people misusing mind maps and no one reading the Tony Buzan book have brought us to this point though where no one actually knows what mind maps are or why they are so powerful.

If most people are using a term "wrong", then they are using it correctly.

I thought this was the difference between mindmaps (anonymous connections between things) and concept maps, where edges are directed and labeled such that (node, edge, node) triplets form propositions.

I agree concept maps are more useful but at this point I do think they deserve their own word.

Very cool! Similar to mind map extraction and search in airesearch.js.org and you can integrate specific functions. For example it would help the mind map for it to be self organizing in the nodes and connections

Thank god the world doesn’t actually work this way..

A mind map is a specific type of concept map, where the edges are labeled

But it somewhat does, no? Why else would words change meaning over time?

This is exactly how the world works.

Language does what language wants to, pedants try to fight it, pedants eventually lose. To boldly split an infinitive continues to be correct in spite of it being "wrong".

No.

A Mind Map has labeled edges (and usually only edges, no nodes). It was invented by Tony Buzan and he has a bunch of rules that they have to obey.

A Concept Map had labeled edges between nodes and an education theory behind it. It was invented by Joseph Novak, building on ideas by David Ausubel.

Mind Mapping tools usually produce neither.

I looked it up out of curiosity. In Buzan's "The Mind Map Book" (and other books by him), he suggests mind maps can significantly enhance learning, memory, and creative thinking, and that labeling lines/branches:

• Creates meaningful connections between concepts

• Allows more fluid and associative thinking

• Allow for greater creativity and recall compared to spider diagrams

He suggests using curved lines, colors and images, and to develop your own personal style of mind mapping

Looosely speaking.

Specifically this is how American English works. From composition to pronunciation. It's a beautiful mess <3

It's how all languages work. Some languages have bodies that like to pretend they can regulate them, but it doesn't actually work.