Open Mind Map

Imagine a global mind map something similar to what Open Street Map does for streets, OpenMindMap.org does for thoughts and minds.

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Mind maps are visualisations of our filter bubbles that create our information bubbles. Escape comes from seeing a path out. But how to find a path if one is trapped in ones bubble? Open your mind, open your mind map!

More details on the project and contact here.

More technical details including the usage of Node-RED are available at the blog.

Philosophy

This whole experience began with the idea of creating a global mind map for exploding personal filter bubbles. I had the idea of using Node-RED as a mind-map tool. If you see Node-RED as a drawing program for connecting rectangles and via lines, you can see the mind map association! (Node-RED is actually an IoT tool for directing data flow from devices to servers & services.)

Having created my mind map, I realised that I had created a visual representation of my filter bubble and began thinking about the white spaces around the nodes. I realised that a mind map is not a street map - a street map shows you all the streets you don’t know, a mind map shows you just the thoughts that you already had/have. I wish to change that and decided to create openmindmap.org - the name being from Open Street Map.

Open mind map is the intention of having a global mind map whereby I can expand my mind map by crossing over to other peoples mind maps, thought for thought, idea for idea.

Demo

A in-browser non-server version of what I mean is available at beta.openmindmap.org. It still has much in common with the Node-RED interface but that also implies that my mind map can be executed as a Node-RED flow. That makes these mind maps slight different because not only do they represent ideas and thoughts and dreams but also an executable Node-RED flow through which data can flow.

Artificial Intelligence

The integration of AI is being investigated, this being a human project AI will only be used as a “assistant” for helping humans to organise their thoughts. At this stage, AI is solely used for creating summarisation of content added by humans.

If you find the idea interesting and what to help/copy/steal the idea, please contact me either via email of vCard.


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The author is available for Node-RED development and consultancy.