Anyone using Mermaid?

mnlngl

Hey there, I'm just going to throw in a speculative. I've been tinkering with Typora's mermaid support recently and found it pretty nifty https://mermaidjs.github.io/. At the moment I am finishing a short book on narcocapitalism and was thinking that the argumental flow could be easily mapped into a few simple diagrams (to aid me in recognising the conceptual shifts and moves). Would it be an overkill to have this in the Archive?

Note that I'm not requesting a feature, only discussing if this could be useful. It is worth to say that mermaid is pretty limited, but I like the possibility of not having to use complex imaging software to generate simple diagrams.

ctietze

Thanks for the suggestion! I’ll put this on the list of features we have to discuss since this is totally new territory for the app. That being said, I wrote about nvALT & Mermaid a while ago: https://zettelkasten.de/posts/nvalt-graph-mermaid-js/

This only works in the preview of nvALT; I think with a decent preprocessor setting, you can teach Marked to render the graph during preview, too, and use that from The Archive for now.

mnlngl

Should've looked in the blog before! That's a pretty exhaustive and interesting post.

In my case I'm good enough with previewing in Typora. I like the sharp simplicity of The Archive. Can't think of this being an essential feature...