Mindmaps in Emacs

I have been using Emacs for about 4+ years now, and I still find new things.

One of the thing I discovered this week is ability to create mindmaps without leaving the comfort of Emacs 😄 This is made possible via PlantUML.

Doom emacs makes it very easy to set it up.

  1. Enable plantuml in the init.el of your doom emacs config.
  2. M-x doom/reload (This will install the appropriate packages)
  3. M-x plantuml-download-jar (Make sure you have working java installation)
  4. doom/open-scratch-buffer
  5. org-mode (Not sure if this is needed, but better be explicit)

Now create following in your scratch buffer that is already in plantuml mode.

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