I wonder if the markdown documents are compatible? I know Logseq's markdown documents are compatible with Obsidian, so some people use both. At least back in ~2021, several commenters (on another website I forgot) found Logseq nicer for quick idea-generation and Obsidian nicer for exploration.

[-]George3d66y10

Do you think this is better than having e.g. a personal wiki ?

[-]Three-Monkey Mind5y20

This appears to be a personal wiki.

[-][anonymous]6y*20

I think that'd work pretty well too, for roughly the same function. I don't know of any simple self-hosted local wiki software off the top of my head though.

I mainly shared this because it seems like mind-mapping is a common-enough use case for people in this community and people seem to be on an "alternative note-taking format" kick right now.

[-]Said Achmiz6y40

I don’t know of any simple self-hosted local wiki software off the top of my head though.

PmWiki can do this, though whether it’s ‘simple’ is a matter of perspective. (It’s certainly easy to use.)

[-][anonymous]6y20

Oh, sick. The standalone instructions don't seem too complicated.

[-]McX5y10

You have TiddlyRoam a self-hosted local wiki with mind-maping, plus lots of plugins and themes. example

[-]George3d66y10

But is there some functionality that this would provide that a wiki doesn't ? (or some nice interface for that functionality that a wiki doesn't).

Or is just the simplicity of installation and/or the simplicity of the data format ?

[-][anonymous]6y40

I think the most prominent functionality is the mind-mapping. Wikis, AFAICT, don't have that. If you're visually inclined, having the graph layout and being able to traverse / see the connections could be useful.

Also, yeah, this runs locally.

[-]Said Achmiz6y20

I think the most prominent functionality is the mind-mapping. Wikis, AFAICT, don’t have that.

Oh, but they do.

[-][anonymous]6y20

Oh cool, I'm really unfamiliar with wikis, so I didn't know about these.

It's awesome that this functionality exists.

I only briefly glanced at both links, but I think they just output a static graph, is that right?

I guess maybe someone might prefer also using the graph for interactive traversal.

[-]Said Achmiz6y40

The output is in SVG format, but the cool thing about SVGs is that they (a) can have hyperlinks in them, and (b) can be displayed in the browser. So the generated SVG is displayed in your browser, and each of the nodes are links to the wikipage the node represents, so you can indeed use it to navigate the wiki.

[-][anonymous]6y20

Oh, nice! I didn't realize that hyperlinks were there too. In that case, yup, I can see that it does basically the same thing.

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