obsidian-mind-map VS zim-desktop-wiki

I really enjoy utilizing the mind map plugin when I'm learning a new subject. It definitely helps in my hierarchal understanding and keeps me honest when I'm creating a new note structure.

The basic Mind Map that looks like this and can be shared as an interactive html file.

Sorry, I just re-read that, and it looks like an omission on my part. I think I was trying to link to the mind map plugin: https://github.com/lynchjames/obsidian-mind-map

Check out the Mind Map plugin. https://github.com/lynchjames/obsidian-mind-map

You may also like this plugin: mindmap.

I don't do the mind map thing, but I do make heavy use of Obsidian as my note taking solution and it has a graph view to show the connections between nodes.

https://help.obsidian.md/Plugins/Graph+view

There are also 3rd party plugins that further build on it's system like https://github.com/lynchjames/obsidian-mind-map

Obsidian itself runs locally on top of markdown files (with it's own flavor).

Community plugins: Calendar, Kanban, Excalidraw, MindMap

The Obsidian Mind Map plugin lets you create diagrams like that using markdown.

I'll slightly modify your argument; because Pure HTML does suck:

Why don't people make static sites with a simple "Markdown-or-Similar to HTML" converter, CSS, and vanilla JS...etc?

(This is what I do, btw -- http://zim-wiki.org + a template)

You should add Zim [1] to the "Personal Knowledge Management" section :)

[1] https://zim-wiki.org

https://meyerweb.com/eric/tools/s5/

And I just tweaked the CSS and added a bit of logic to included the possibility of one image per slide; as well as editing slides not with raw HTML but with https://zim-wiki.org (because that's what I'm really used to, I'm sure any Markdown thing would work just as well).

Absolutely; recently I realize I wish I'd never learned vim. I use too many other programs that are at least CUA-ish ( http://zim-wiki.org is the most important app I use ) and now I kind of want out. I haven't yet tried Modeless Vim, but that looks like my next experiment.

https://github.com/SebastianMuskalla/ModelessVim

It is so hard not to feel REALLY SMUG reading stuff like this, as someone who has run my own website as the working primary source for my college instruction for the past 15 years or so using https://zim-wiki.org. (before Markdown was much of a thing!)

It's borderline bizarre to have watched this method of doing things kind of die out, and then also come back in the form of "static site generators" -- which, frankly, are still way clunkier than this.

Write in Zim, export to html, rsync to site. Easy.

FWIW, I've been using http://zim-wiki.org for YEARS. (Sites a little messy and I need to clean it up, but it's extremely functional,) I host my college classes websites from it, to the point that I forced myself to learn the Canvas API, to just clone the page from this site to the front page of Canvas and change the links so they come back here.

jrm4.com