I fooled around with a sample Brain project on the Brain's web site. I was able to import the "thoughts" and links. The project file contains a number of .json files, although they are not actually valid json. But it's possible to work with them anyway. So yes, it's not hard to do an import. The bigger question would be what kind of interface would work well with them and how it would fit into Leo's node system. Contrary to what I speculated above, the thoughts and their links do not look much like bookmark collections. Basically, each "thought" node has both incoming and outgoing links, potentially of any number. It is possible that they would fit into the zettelkasten paradigm, which is basically one way to synthesize multiple incoming and outgoing links. But whether that would be a good approach or not, the interface and display are what need to be invented. There would be no point in trying to reproduce what The Brain already has!
On Friday, March 18, 2022 at 2:12:18 PM UTC-4 [email protected] wrote: > Actually, just the browser bookmark scripts and optionally the mind > mapping visualization, would probably do it. > > On Friday, March 18, 2022 at 2:07:27 PM UTC-4 [email protected] wrote: > >> Having downloaded one of the example brains, and looked at a few of the >> online examples, I'm coming to think that a combination of the browser >> bookmark manager scripts I'm working on together, perhaps, with the >> zettelkasten-style organizing scripts I offered in a different thread, >> would provide similar capabilities. Add some enhancements to the mind >> mapping script I provided a while ago, and we might be able to have a >> really good alternative. >> >> On Friday, March 18, 2022 at 11:28:31 AM UTC-4 [email protected] wrote: >> >>> I've tried TheBrain maybe three times over these many years. It always >>> seems so promising, and I always abandon it with frustration. >>> >>> On Friday, March 18, 2022 at 11:10:22 AM UTC-4 [email protected] wrote: >>> >>>> ... Now, maybe leo could also import TheBrain files ? ;-) >>>> >>> >>> Now there is an interesting idea. A Brain file is a .brz (not actually >>> .zip, but same idea). It has a lot of individual json files that obviously >>> have to work together, along with some icon files. Much of the data is >>> metadata, which might or might not be of interest. The big thing to settle >>> would be how present it all, and one big question there is whether there >>> can be cycles, and if so, how to handle them.. >>> >> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "leo-editor" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/leo-editor/a3dba75a-6d2c-43d0-9f54-04a542771192n%40googlegroups.com.
