I've never done something like that, but after reading your post and the comments, I'm tempted to start doing so!
I'm thinking about a script that receives the URL and saves its main content (e.g., using Mozilla's Readability) in a text file. It also stores the URL on the first line and maybe sends a request to Archive.org to take a snapshot of the page and adds its URL to the second line in the file. Then, whenever I need something, I can search the content of those files (I use the Silver Searcher) and find what I'm looking for. If the main content stored in the file is not enough, I can open the original URL or the Archive's snapshot.
I think I won't need to categorize or tag them; searching seems enough to me.
The only difficulty I can think of is that extracting the main content of pages is not easy, and, for example, Mozilla's Readability doesn't work well all the time. It may be required to have a manual process for copying and pasting the data.
I'm glad you like it :)
To be clear, this mind mapping application is my personal project and P3.express is a group effort and I'm one of its contributors.
Depending on the topic I'm working on, sometimes I need an approach similar to what you explained. I still use a mindmap, open a first-level node called 'temp' and start adding everything there and keep sorting them. As soon as a structure starts to emerge, I create other nodes and move those items to their new places.
This is based on the assumption that your final output would be a tree with one-to-many relationships rather than a graph with many-to-many relationships. I've seen tools for organizing many-to-many relationships, but I never had the need to use one.
It's basically a nested list, but you get specific features that makes it easier and faster to navigate such a list.
Mind mapping is a facilitator for the thinking process. When you're trying to solve a problem or design a concept, you need to switch between the high-level aspects and details all the time, and your tool shouldn't get in the way.
Do you mean json for saving the data?
I wanted the file to be human-readable. You can simply have a markdown list and open it in this application and work with it as a mind map. Also, most of the content one may paste into a mind map is an indented list, and when they copy something from the map, they expect it to be like that. Therefore, the application must be able to process from and to indented lists anyway.
I'm thinking about a script that receives the URL and saves its main content (e.g., using Mozilla's Readability) in a text file. It also stores the URL on the first line and maybe sends a request to Archive.org to take a snapshot of the page and adds its URL to the second line in the file. Then, whenever I need something, I can search the content of those files (I use the Silver Searcher) and find what I'm looking for. If the main content stored in the file is not enough, I can open the original URL or the Archive's snapshot.
I think I won't need to categorize or tag them; searching seems enough to me.
The only difficulty I can think of is that extracting the main content of pages is not easy, and, for example, Mozilla's Readability doesn't work well all the time. It may be required to have a manual process for copying and pasting the data.