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opml title node from markdown?

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otini

21 Jun, 2017 02:41 PM

Hello

Not sure if I am missing something but I would like to export a markdown file (e.g. generated in nvALT) viewed in Marked2 to opml with the ability to determine the title node. In examples I could find (e.g. here http://brettterpstra.com/2013/08/18/markdown-to-mind-map/) the heading 1 syntax (# H1) resulted in the title node (when view in Mind Node). In my current setup the heading 1 all show up as secondary nodes in Mindnode (and when converting back to *.md from opml will actually show up e.g. as ## heading2).

Thank you and best regards
Otini

PS Converting markdown straight from Ulysses to MindNode the heading 1 is interpreted as the title node.

1. Support Staff 1 Posted by Brett on 22 Jun, 2017 03:06 PM

   

   There does seem to be some inconsistency in this, and I'll look into it.
   Right now, the title node is taken from MultiMarkdown metadata (title:
   key), so if you're document looks like:

   title: Main Node Title
   
   # Header 1

   ## Subsection 1.1

   then a round trip from Marked->OPML->MindNode->Markdown (or
   Marked->OPML->Marked->Markdown) will result in:

        # Main Node Title

        ## Header 1

        - Subsection 1.1

        ## Metadata

        - title
          Main Node Title

   Some of this is unavoidable as every OPML-capable app can interpret the
   hierarchy differently. OPML is just an outline, so a poorly structured
   document (that has multiple h1s, or skips from h1-h3, h2-h5, etc.) will
   be interpreted differently. However, I do think that Marked should
   interpret the first h1 as a main node, especially if there's no title:
   metadata. I'll look into this.

   -Brett

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2. 2 Posted by Otini Kroukamp on 22 Jun, 2017 09:43 PM

   

   Thank you!  
   It is certainly not a deal-breaker.
   I have adopted a sort of iterative writing workflow, cycling between MultiMarkdown and OPML (mind map), to more effectively integrate the brainstorm and the outline.  I would just like to predict what I expect to see with each conversion.
   Best regards
   Otini

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