Hi, I was drafting an article about Zim Wiki. In doing so, I remembered the time when I was using PersonalBrain (now TheBrain, www.thebrain.com) as a personal information manager. I liked its animated interface very much and since then I haven't found anything so smooth and cool for navigating networks of associations and mind maps.
The actual Graphviz-powered map of connections is a good starting point, but cannot compare with TheBrain in terms of "beauty" and usability. Looking for some open source alternatives, I've found http://gephi.org/ which looks wonderful. In their own words: "Gephi is an interactive visualization and exploration platform for all kinds of networks and complex systems, dynamic and hierarchical graphs." They accept lots of input formats, such as: GEXF, GDF, GML, GraphML, Pajek NET, GraphViz DOT, CSV, UCINET DL, Tulip TPL, Netdraw VNA, Spreadsheet... Since Zim Wiki is already able to export to a GraphViz, is there a way to get the intermediate format, so that I can try to feed it into Gephi? Just to be clear, the ultimate goal would be to have something similar to TheBrain's animated interface (that you can see on their website or on this video (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GFqLUBKCFdA). If someone is aware of other tools getting close to this, I'm happy to know. Oh: I'd be willing to pay for this feature. Best regards Marco Cevoli Traduttore tecnico. Grafico. Congiungitore di punti. Technical translator. Graphic designer. Joiner-of-dots. ------------------------------------------------------- http://www.marcocevoli.com _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~zim-wiki Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~zim-wiki More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
