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

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169 points arthurtakeda | 2 comments | 20 Oct 24 20:01 UTC | HN request time: 0.41s | source

Enter a topic and get a learning mind map generated by an LLM with links to learn more about each subtopic.

You can use it with local models (through Ollama) or external models.

If you have any feedback, please share it! Hope it's useful

Demo: https://youtu.be/Y-9He-tG3aM

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pier25 ◴[21 Oct 24 04:54 UTC] No.41900799[source]▶
The point of making mind maps by hand is that they help you memorize and study by synthesizing a topic.

If this is done by AI it's pretty much pointless.

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simonbarker87 ◴[21 Oct 24 09:21 UTC] No.41902199[source]▶
Came here to say this. Also, most mind map implementations are actually spider diagrams which (while useful) are not mind maps, the point of a mind map is the label the line and not the node.
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1. andai ◴[21 Oct 24 09:38 UTC] No.41902306[source]▶
Huh, I've been doing it wrong my whole life.
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2. simonbarker87 ◴[21 Oct 24 10:34 UTC] No.41902660[source]▶
Use Your Head by Tony Buzan is totally worth a read and is how I learned mind mapping 22 years ago. I can still remember the rough layout and shape of many of the mind maps I made for GCSE and A-level revision. I’m 100% certain that reading that book and sticking to his methodologies added one or two letter grades to my exams at that age.