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

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169 points arthurtakeda | 4 comments | 20 Oct 24 20:01 UTC | HN request time: 0s | 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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andai ◴[20 Oct 24 23:35 UTC] No.41899427[source]▶
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!

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matly ◴[21 Oct 24 07:32 UTC] No.41901605[source]▶
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

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soco ◴[21 Oct 24 10:54 UTC] No.41902777[source]▶
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.
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1. Tier3r ◴[21 Oct 24 11:08 UTC] No.41902876[source]▶
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.
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2. zs234465234165 ◴[22 Oct 24 00:18 UTC] No.41909924[source]▶
Anki doesn’t belong on this list
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3. Tier3r ◴[22 Oct 24 00:34 UTC] No.41910014[source]▶
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.
4. xyzsparetimexyz ◴[22 Oct 24 02:13 UTC] No.41910513[source]▶
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.