In my developer experience I've always found the practice of mind mapping code very useful and helpful. For years, I’ve been copying-pasting snippets into FreeMind to untangle large code bases in big complex projects. It worked, but it was clunky. Now, I’ve built an open source VS Code/Visual Studio extension to do this natively: Code Mind Map. You can use it to add selected pieces of code to a mind map as nodes and then click them to jump to the linked code from the map. It’s useful for: ✅ Untangling legacy code ✅ Onboarding into large codebases ✅ Debugging tangled workflows ✅ Quick navigation to critical places in the code (like having hierarchical bookmarks) Please try it out and let me know what you think about this idea and how well it is working in the extension.

Code Mind Map

A mind mapping VS/Code extension with nodes liked to code.

A mind mapping VS/Code extension with nodes liked to code.