Argdown is an interesting Markdown syntax for constructing argument maps. argdown.org
It has some unusual non-linear writing features: e.g. you can give statements/arguments titles and elsewhere refer to them as supporting/undercutting others.
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See also Kialo, a Wiki-like platform for collaborative constructing argument maps, e.g.
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This looks very promising! Visual-first/only argument mapping often gets too unwieldy for realistic-scaled arguments IME. OTOH it's hard to "grok" the big picture in text only, so some way to move between the modalities is really useful!
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This is the first text based one I see. I like that this is basically just text so that people can use git to fork their argument maps at the claims they don't agree with.
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Cool! Roam by contrast has every link (or edge) be bidirectional and unlabeled. Affordances for directionality and labels makes sense taking “note taking as graph theory” POV.
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Would you say this is better than the standard software for this purpose?
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Mm! What Joel said!
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This looks very promising! Visual-first/only argument mapping often gets too unwieldy for realistic-scaled arguments IME. OTOH it's hard to "grok" the big picture in text only, so some way to move between the modalities is really useful!
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And when someone says "The experts don't know everything" you construct an aarghmap.
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You missed this one: mindmup.com/tutorials/argu -- If I'm not mistaken, Carnegie Mellon and several other Phil departments use this to teach argument mapping. BTW.. it's free
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