I make an app for macOS that makes it easy to make offline viewers for documents like this (https://repla.app/). Would anyone be interested in having an offline viewer for this? E.g., being able to drag a `mindmap.md` file to the app icon, and have it render the mindmap and automatically update when you make changes in your text editor.
(I'm aware there are other ways to do offline views like this, happy to explain the relative pros and cons of Repla's approach versus others as I see them, if anyone is curious, just ask!)
Definitely! There’s an email sign up at the bottom of the page here https://repla.app/
The app is already available to download and try, with a couple of interesting use cases you can read about on the site. We're also shipping a Markdown preview that's in testing now shortly. The next plugins we're looking at after that are Mermaid (https://mermaid-js.github.io/mermaid/#/) and now Markmap too.
Thanks for the input! I'm also looking at supporting Mermaid diagramming https://mermaid-js.github.io/ I'd love to hear if people have other good use cases for this model, e.g., of having a plain text file you edit in a text editor accompanied by a rendered web document view of the same file.
Mermaid can be plugged into Pandoc, so you can create decent PDF docs in Markdown that include diagrams. We store the Markdown files in git and have a Makefile that converts to PDF.
(I'm aware there are other ways to do offline views like this, happy to explain the relative pros and cons of Repla's approach versus others as I see them, if anyone is curious, just ask!)