Mind Map

Mind Maps with ORG Files

Requirements

You will need to install graphviz on your system, and then configure your PATH variable and point it to your /graphviz/bin folder.

Graphviz Website

Once you have installed Graphviz and updated your PATH variable you can reload doom env by running the following:

.emacs.d/bin/doom.cmd env refresh

Once this is complete, restart Emacs and you're ready to start writing your first mind map.

Creating mind maps

This is the easy part. Your branches will represent ORG headings, tags will be attached to your nodes and color coded by the tag name. Here's an example mind map you can test. Simply copy and paste into a new org file.

* Data

** More Data
** Considerations
** What If's

* Objectives

** Point A
** Point B
** Point C

*** Data A
*** Data B

Then execute the command org-mind-map-write and choose the preferred file format you want to use for your mind map. For this example we will use PDF.

After the command runs it'll produce the following: