I derive a lot of benefit from mind-mapping in the style shown below. I usually do this in .txt files. But is there some generally accepted text file extension specifically for monospace art?

  ┌──────────────────┐           
 ┌┤ Current Projects ├─────────┐ ┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
 │└──────────────────┘         ├─┘ ┌──────────────────┐                                                │
 │                             │   │ Possessions List │────────────┐                                   │ 
 │ □ Forever Park              │   └──────────────────┘            │    ┌──────────────┐               │
 │ └──────────────             │    │                              │   ┌┤ Forever Park ├────────────┐  │
 │                             │    │  ░ Some reboxing would be    │   │└──────────────┘            │  │
 │ □ Possessions List          │    │  ░   nice                    │   │                            │  │
 │ └───────────────────        │    │                              │   │ ░ Not much. Just keep      │  │
 │                             │    └──────────────────────────────┘   │ ░   plugging away at that  │  │
 │ □ Healthcare Application    │    ┌────────────────────────┐         │ ░   outline.               │  │
 │ └─────────────────────────  │    │ Healthcare Application │───────┐ │                            │  │
 │                             │    └────────────────────────┘       │ └────────────────────────────┘  │
 │ □ Tapstry Map               │     │                               │                                 │
 │ └──────────────             │     │ ░ Previous healthcare expires │                                 │
 │                             │     │ ░   Sunday, April 30th        │                                 │
 └┬────────────────────────────┘     │                               │                                 │
 ┌┘                                  └───────────────────────────────┘                                 │
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 │     ┌─────────────┐                                                                                 │
 │    ┌┤ Tapstry Map ├─────────────────────────────────────────┐                                       │
 │    │└─────────────┘                                         │                                       │
 │    │                                                        │                                       │
 │    │  Explore:                                              │                                       │
 │    │                                                        │                                       │
 │    │   ░  line endpoints                                    │                                       │
 │    │   ░  text box wrapping                                 │                                       │
 │    │   ░  google sheets and csv files with real datasets    │                                       │
 │    │   ░  d3 pointer events so I can see mouse coordinates  │                                       │
 │    │                                                        │                                       │
 │    └────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘                                       │
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  • @OwenEverbindeOPEnglish
    1•9 months ago

    Do you suppose there’s a way to use artist-mode with Unicode characters replacing the ASCII ones? Because looking at artist-mode, the ASCII characters are causing a bit of hesitation.

    EDIT: I do see an artist replacement table. Maybe I should paste the whole artist.el file into chat.openai and ask GPT3 whether and how I can use that to replace all four corners.