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Nice strategy. I’m eager to try this out.

Would anyone care to recommend a piece of software that will allow me to build maps showing relationships? Something akin to a mindmap with nodes and a web of interconnections. I’d like to build a map of businesses and relationships in my industry. Something I can add to over many years.

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It's what mathematicians[0] and programmers[1] refers to as a graph. Traditionally you would use http://graphviz.org/ and its many derivatives, which meets your long-term-stable criteria. These days if you want clicky web GUI you can use a bunch of javascript-ports, eg. https://sketchviz.com/new or https://github.com/jwilber/roughViz ... avoid valuing presentation over content, though.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graph_(discrete_mathematics) [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graph_(abstract_data_type)

And if you're more into scripting, TikZ:

https://tikz.dev/library-mindmaps

A cool notes app that does this is https://obsidian.md/

If you want something long-lived, and want to diagram all of the relations from multiple views: https://www.ilograph.com/

I think Logseq is really what you need. Knowledge graph + outliner. It's local, exportable, zero-friction and a joy to use.

https://logseq.com

This is exactly TheBrain’s use case: TheBrain.com

Obsidian.md and its integration with Excalidraw (and especially ExcaliBrain) are exactly this.

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