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Turn Any Obsidian Note Into a Mind Map With This Plugin

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A freshly released Obsidian plugin — mindelixir-mindmap: https://github.com/SSShooter/obsidian-mindmap

It ships with two core features:

  1. View any Markdown file as an interactive mind map
  2. Embed mind maps directly inside a Markdown document

Markdown → Mind Map

mindelixir-mindmap converts a Markdown file into a mind map by reading the hierarchy of headings and lists.

Mind Elixir Plaintext

Mind Elixir Plaintext is a format similar to Markdown nested lists, extended with syntax for connections, summary nodes, and styling.

Using simple indentation, ID references, and JSON-like inline declarations, you can build complex mind map structures entirely in plain text — and the format is also very AI-friendly.

- Product Development
  - Research [^research]
    - User Interviews {"color": "#3298db"}
    - Competitor Analysis {"color": "#3298db"}
    - }:2 Research Summary
  - Development [^dev]
    - Architecture Design {"color": "#2ecc71"}
    - Frontend/Backend Integration {"color": "#f39c12"}
    - } Dev Summary
  - > [^research] >-leads to-> [^dev]

Mind Elixir Plaintext can also be embedded as a code block inside existing articles. Here’s how it looks on mobile:

With regular Markdown you can only update the mind map by editing the text. For Mind Elixir Plaintext files, a two-way sync feature (editing the mind map updates the source text in real time) is currently in development.

Installation

A PR has already been submitted to the official Obsidian community plugin list, but the review queue is enormous — the maintainers are drowning in submissions from the AI era. In the meantime, here are two unofficial install methods.

BRAT

BRAT is a listed Obsidian plugin originally designed to help you test beta plugins, but it works perfectly for installing production-ready ones too.

Search for BRAT in Community Plugins and install it:

Then open BRAT settings, click Add beta plugin, paste https://github.com/SSShooter/obsidian-mindmap, and the mind map plugin will be installed automatically:

Manual Installation

Prefer not to use BRAT? Head to the plugin Releases page and download these three files:

  • main.js
  • style.css
  • manifest.json

Then open the Obsidian plugin folder from Settings, create a new subfolder, drop the three files in, and refresh the plugin list.

mindelixir-mindmap is under active development. If you run into any issues or have ideas for new features, feel free to open an Issue or PR on GitHub 🤗

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