Organizing Ideas with X-Colidra: A Visual Roadmap

Visual planning with Excolidra transforms chaotic ideas into a coherent, communicative roadmap.

### Xcolidra Plugin Roadmap: From Idea Generation to Visual Planning
* 🧠 The Xcolidra plugin roadmap is being organized using a structured approach, with a **two-axis template** showing **time on the horizontal axis** and **reality/difficulty on the vertical axis**.
* 📊 Three key benefits of visual planning are highlighted: **improved idea generation**, **clarity through grouping and linking**, and **enhanced communication of the plan to others**.
* 💡 Initial brainstorming involved reviewing **issue logs** and incorporating **additional ideas** as they emerged during the process.
* 🔗 Ideas were grouped and linked based on **development type** (core Excolidra product vs. Obsidian plugin), **difficulty**, **timing**, **realistic workability**, and **dependencies**.
* 📈 The roadmap is reorganized into a **3x3 matrix**, with immediate focus on **deploying the new image element into the Obsidian plugin** and **integrating it with other features**.
* 🌟 Future opportunities include developing solutions for **Lotex support**, **Markdown document previews**, and addressing long-time requests like **pencil support** and **Chinese handwritten fonts**.
* 🔮 Long-term vision involves creating a **plugin-like environment** for sharing Excolidra automation solutions in an **easy-to-install setup**.
* 💬 The presenter encourages integrating visual thinking into daily workflows, citing its **efficiency** and the **powerful tool** that Obsidian with Excolidra provides for this purpose.

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Organizing Ideas with X-Colidra: A Structured Approach

X-Colidra can help organize ideas for a plugin roadmap, addressing suggestions from GitHub, Discord, YouTube, and Twitter.

The mind map used for planning has a horizontal axis for time and a vertical axis for reality and difficulty.

Visual planning offers benefits such as generating ideas, achieving clarity through linking and grouping, and facilitating better communication of the plan.

Grouping and linking ideas based on development type, difficulty, and timing helps in achieving clarity and a stronger grip on each concept.

Visual plans improve communication and understanding, making it easier to align teams and clarify dependencies and task ownership.

The 3x3 matrix serves as a powerful visual tool, turning a cloud of ideas into a coherent plan with a clear timeline and vision.

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The thinking tool can be used for risk management, business strategy, technical product selection, and even mapping whiskies by flavor.

The immediate focus is on deploying a new image element into the Obsidian plugin for full integration with other features.

Long-term goals include developing solutions for Lotex support, Markdown document previews, and addressing long-time requests, all dependent on the core Excolidra product development.

An environment is being created for people to easily share their ex-collateral automate solutions.

The setup is designed for easy installation.

Integrating visual thinking into daily workflows is encouraged, with Obsidian and Excolidra offering an excellent tool for this purpose.