For anyone who thinks infinitely nested lists sounds like a good way to organize things, but would prefer an online, less editor-centric (but still keyboard friendly) tool, I recommend workflowy.com (or their more recent competitor dynalist.io who add more rich content support if that is your thing).
I've been using Workflowy for years to organize my work, both for tasks and for mental maps and note-taking. I've found that it maps extremely well to the recursive nature of my mental map of an application and it subcomponents, tasks and subtasks, and so on. And overall I find that collapsible nested lists have all the benefits of a classic 'mind map' but without the constraints and 'easier to read than edit' nature of a bubble visualization.
For me the whole point of org-mode is that the stuff in it is to valuable to trust with a vendor that stores it in a proprietary format that cant be extracted in a meaningful way if the service/company folds.
So one more note here, my open source Workflowy clone backs up all your data to a .txt file in your Dropbox every night. If my hosted service goes away, you can just run it locally, import the .txt file, and you're good to go. https://github.com/NickBusey/BulletNotes
A large part of the reason I made it was for exactly the scenario you described. I run my entire life out of it and wasn't comfortable relying on one company for it.
Awesome! Starring it for this very reason (I'll probably run an instance for personal / family use, after I finish setting up the home server). I'm a big supporter of every web tool that you can self-host.
In that case, I'm putting this on my todo list (in org mode :)) and will spin up an instance on my home dev machine somewhen in the next 10 days (I'll have an extremely busy week). I'll get back to you with the report.
While I'm sure this won't be what you want or care about, FWIW they do offer export into plaintext that could easily be massaged into any form you'd like (I'm sure it'd take at most a line or two of lisp to get it into org-mode) and can do so daily to dropbox.
I have definitely considered this, not exactly sure what it would entail as I never really got into org-mode, started using Workflowy and then BulletNotes instead.
Do you mean just importing an org-mode file? Or an actual integration?
I'll chime in with a thumbs up for checkvist.com (no affiliation, happy user). I discovered workflowy.com first but moved across as I was seduced by "try without registration", the export options - text, markdown, OPML - and the keyboard shortcuts.
Looks more like a publishing (markdown/pandoc) solution. Abandoned 2010 as folks moved to Org.
> org-brain [inspired by TheBrain.com]
Hierarchy plus one additional link type. Org-mode integration. "One node and neighbors" presentation.
I'm struck again by how much code is about to be rewritten for VR/AR. If anyone has a programming language they wish to mainstream, here comes an opportunity to ride a selective sweep. :)
I love Workflowy. The Broadband Mechanics guys had an excellent web-based outliner. It disappeared and I've always wondered if Workflowy was built from that.
Honestly, I'm kind of surprised they still exist, given the half-life of random web startups being ~3 years. Personally, I've seen them (and used for a while) back around... 2011? Don't remember what their page looked like back then, but it was quite easy to figure out.
I've been using Workflowy for years to organize my work, both for tasks and for mental maps and note-taking. I've found that it maps extremely well to the recursive nature of my mental map of an application and it subcomponents, tasks and subtasks, and so on. And overall I find that collapsible nested lists have all the benefits of a classic 'mind map' but without the constraints and 'easier to read than edit' nature of a bubble visualization.