Search for content across multiple mindmaps.

Maarten den Heijer

• June 14, 2023 06:18

I am an avid user of Xmind. I probably have more than 500 mindmaps that I created for my job. I use mindmaps to help me remember the context of the job I am bust with. My problem? Remembering in which mindmap I covered a specific topic of my job becomes an issue. Does Say I have a folder structure with 500 Xmind mindmaps. Is it possible to search for a topic across these folders to find the topic I am looking for?

 

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  Maarten den Heijer

  • June 14, 2023 06:18

  bust = busy :)

   

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  jaeger.anais03

  • June 16, 2023 11:15

  yes, do a command/control F, click on the setting ( or wheel - sorry, English is not my first language), and pick "current file"

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  Diego Losada

  • October 24, 2023 17:34
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  This can be easily done by running a Python script that will search all the files in your current folder and subfolders and return the files containing the sentence and the number of times it was found. You can ask ChatGPT for steps on how to run this file:

  Command: python search.py "Replace with your text"

  File:

  import os

  import codecs

  import io

  import sys

  
  

  def search_for_keyword_in_file(file_path, keyword):

      try:

          with io.open(file_path, encoding='utf-8', errors='ignore') as f:

              FileFound = False

              count = 0

              for line in f:

                  if keyword in line:

                      FileFound = True

                      count += line.count(keyword)

          if FileFound:

              print(f'{file_path} {count}')

                         

  
  

      except (OSError, UnicodeDecodeError):

          #print(f"Error reading file: {file_path}")

          x=1

  
  

  def search_files_for_keyword(root_folder, keyword):

      for root, _, files in os.walk(root_folder):

          for file in files:

              file_path = os.path.join(root, file)

              search_for_keyword_in_file(file_path, keyword)

  
  

  if __name__ == '__main__':

      if len(sys.argv) != 2:

          print("Usage: python search.py <keyword>")

          sys.exit(1)

  
  

      current_folder = os.getcwd()

      keyword_to_search = sys.argv[1]

      search_files_for_keyword(current_folder, keyword_to_search)

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