I‘m a big fan of del.icio.us for organizing everything I read on the internet. I also use FreeMind for structured brainstorming and graphical organization as a mindmap. Displaying tags as a mindmap tree was an obvious fit. I figured it wouldn‘t be too hard to transform an xml format from del.icio.us to the Freemind file format. A great benefit I found when I was researching, I discovered the mindmap format could also include weblinks on each of the nodes. This means you can click through the created mindmap tree and launch websites from your del.icio.us bookmarks directly within Freemind. On Windows, the links are even opened directly in your default browser.
To use DeliciousMind...
http://del.icio.us/api/posts/recent?count=10000
in your browser (I hope you‘re using Firefox). You will be prompted to enter your del.icio.us username & password. deliciousmind.cmd delicious.xml mindmap.mm
> deliciousmind.cmd delicious-example.xml mindmap-example.mm
00:26:13,627 INFO DeliciousMind - Converting Del.icio.us file delicious-example.xml
00:26:13,938 INFO DeliciousMind - MindMap has been written to mindmap-example.mm
Please contact me with any suggestions or comments (deliciousmind AT blainekendall DOT com)
Transform this xml from del.icio.us to ...
...this easily viewable and graphical mindmap.
Please contact me with any suggestions or comments (deliciousmind AT blainekendall DOT com).