Hi everyone,
Kuusi is a JupyterLab 4 extension that turns a notebook into a spatial mind map: markdown headings become the tree, and cells stay native Jupyter Code/Markdown cells (not a custom editor).
V0.2.4 Screenshot
Install
pip install jupyterlab-kuusi
Then open a notebook → Open With → Kuusi Mind Map, or use the Kuusi toolbar button.
Links
I’d love feedback: bugs, UX friction, and feature ideas are all welcome. Please reply in this thread (or @ me) so discussion stays in one place. You’re also welcome to open a GitHub issue for clear, reproducible bugs.
Thanks!
Kuusi 0.2.4 is out
Install / upgrade:
pip install -U jupyterlab-kuusi
Requires JupyterLab 4 and Python 3.9+.
Highlights
- Theme presets: Notebook · Soft · Outline · Paper · Board · Black · Minimal
- Node menu: Equal width, fill, border (incl. white), corner, selection glow
- Frosted-glass page / format toolbars; shared secondary menus
- Subtree Delete / Copy / Cut / Paste; paste external text as child topics
- Kuusi → Community: Discourse · X @KussiMindMap
- Fixes: Enter on H1 root → child; Board text contrast on Jupyter Dark; open/center, zoom, font relayout, and more
Screenshots
Kuusi 0.2.5 is out
Kuusi turns your Jupyter notebook into a pannable, zoomable mind map — same .ipynb, same cells, no export step. 0.2.5 is a big usability release: smarter layout, richer formatting, and a canvas that finally feels as natural to rearrange as it looks.
What’s new
Layout & nodes
- Fit content width — cards shrink to their text (respecting your max-width cap). Turn on Equal width and siblings share the widest content width without awkward line breaks on short titles.
- Sibling gap 0 — pack branches flush when you want a dense map.
- Line → Route — Straight, Curve, Orthogonal, or Rounded orthogonal connectors; edges route through gutters instead of cutting through nodes.
- Empty notebooks auto-seed an H1 root — open Kuusi on a blank notebook and the canvas is never empty.
Move & navigate
- Arrow keys move selection spatially across the canvas (not just up/down the outline list).
- ⌘/Ctrl+click multi-select; drag any selected node to move the whole group.
- Drag the whole card to reorder (no separate grip handle).
- iOS-style drop preview — siblings slide apart to show where a node will land; child drops show a lane behind the parent.
- Drop on a card’s rear to nest as a child; gaps between siblings count as insert points.
Edit & format
- Format toolbar Heading menu — H1–H3 + Body, with level shown on the trigger.
- Math menu —
$ / $$, templates, Greek letters, and symbols in a chip grid.
- Aa menu — same chip style for Bold, Italic, Underline, and more.
- Undo / Redo on the page toolbar, wired to notebook history.
- Paste external Markdown and Kuusi maps ATX headings into a child outline under your selection (depth 20; lists merge into Body nodes).
Workflow & polish
- Click Kuusi → split view (notebook | mind map) instead of replacing the tab.
- Theme presets show vertical thumbnails so you can pick by look, not name.
- Font → Link toggles to match notebook fonts or unify edit/display fonts.
- Collapse control matches node border color (with hover glow); trackpad taps no longer accidentally hit resize.
- Click canvas blank to finish editing and render Markdown reliably.
- ¶ heading anchors hidden on mind-map nodes — cleaner cards, less clutter.
- Pan and drag no longer fight auto-centering; cursors show grab/pointer after render, not a stuck I-beam.
Install
Requirements: JupyterLab 4.x, Python 3.9+
pip install -U jupyterlab-kuusi
jupyter lab
Open a notebook → click Kuusi in the toolbar.
Links
If you try 0.2.5, we’d love to hear how it fits your note-taking or teaching workflow — bugs, ideas, and screenshots welcome on Discourse or GitHub Issues.
Happy mapping.
