Sharing a tiny tool that helped me untangle JSON chaos

So I ran into a situation recently that I think a lot of you might relate to.

I was digging through a deeply nested JSON structure you know the kind: multiple levels of objects, arrays with dozens of entries, a mix of IDs and metadata... the kind that makes your brain fog up after 10 minutes.

I was trying to make sense of how everything connected, and honestly, the scrolling back and forth wasn’t helping. Even with a good IDE and syntax highlighting, I was getting lost in the layers. I just needed a bird’s-eye view of the whole thing.

And I thought, “Why isn’t there a simple way to visualize this? Like… just turn it into a mind map or something I can actually see?”

After some digging, I found a free tool by MindMap AI that does exactly what I needed it converts JSON to a mind map

You just paste your JSON and it turns it into a mind map instantly. No login or anything. I’ve used it a few times now when I just need to untangle messy data, and it’s saved me from quite a few headaches.

Thought I’d share in case someone else is dealing with similar “JSON blindness” 😅

Anyone else visualize data structures like this? Would love to know if there are other tricks/tools you use.