phase1geo
Add custom fields for nodes & templates
I love Minder and it would be very useful to specify custom fields, like an IP address, an URL or an Username or a social media account etc
For instance if I’m designing my new amazing web app I will need a frontend server, a mysql server, both of those have IP address and are servers. I included an image to show how this can look.
Of course it is unrealistic to imagine that Minder will include ALL types of nodes one user can come up with. This is why it should be possible to add our one through some kind of template.
Currently I can emulate this by adding manually an emoji to each note title and a prefix. Custom fields can then be specified in the note using markdown but it’s not practical and not easily searchable. A system like this could enable to filter (eg: show me only the servers required for my project) and require users to think a bit deeper (eg: my server requires an IP or a domain or whatever).
This could also later be used to export this data (eg: list of all servers required on so on)
I know that it won't address all of your needs, but in Minder 2.0 I have support for tagging nodes. In your example above, you could tag all of your nodes that are associated with servers with a "Server" tag. Perhaps also tag all of the nodes associated Linux with a "Linux" tag and so on. Tags will be displayed in the mind map node as a colored box (you can change the color, if needed). You can highlight all nodes containing a tag (or a combination of tags) within Minder. If nodes highlighted, you can perform a search which will only search the highlighted nodes in the mind map, allowing you to drill down to something you are searching for.
I haven't given any thought to specifically exporting nodes that are highlighted (so that you could export all of your server information), but that might be a possibility in the future.
The only thing (I think) that tagging isn't going to provide is a special icon (in this case, one that looks like a server).
