[2. Ultimately, what could be even more natural to me is a mind-mapping tool similar to MindMeister. I love the mind-mapping flow for thoughtstreaming, but not so much for reading, the reason being that there are no good interfaces to explore graphs yet. This isn't conceptually hard -- simply having an interface like MindMeister's mind mapping tool that additionally shows "signposts" to all the neighbors of a given node would be entirely reasonable and recenters smoothly when you click on them could be nice (note: scroll wheel zoom would also be great here). Hypertree <http://philogb.github.io/jit/static/v20/Jit/Examples/Hypertree/example1.html](http://philogb.github.io/jit/static/v20/Jit/Examples/Hypertree/example1.html)> almost does this. I just wish it didn't distort so much on click, and completely become unusable with many graphs. Regardless, building a good explorable graph interface is a very important low-hanging fruit challenge that simply requires some good D3 hackers to sit down and write the code for it, and I think it would be immediately useful in a variety of fields. :-)
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- 5/19/2026, 1:12:23 AM
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