I wondered if you can open multiple boards at the same time in scapple?
Hi.
Yes, of course. But they all need to be a project of their own.
After which you can copy(or cut) paste from one to another.
You may also link from within a board to another. (Say you have a project requiring three boards, you could link to board2 and board3 in the first one. Click the links and it’ll open these extra boards without you having to navigate to them.)
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Thank you for that quick response!
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I didn’t know that! Thanks.
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Using a Scapple board to organise all of your Scapple boards is where it is at. 
Then again, for some things, I have always been very fond of spatial file managers.
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Excuse me for a minute if my questions seem to be clueless. But these are Scapple boards that have been imported into a Scrivener Project? Or this is external to Scrivener and I’m:
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linking one Scapple Board to another in the file system (in this case two different boards in Dropbox.)
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Linking a Note within a board to another board? (Like a note mentions something that is covered in another board.)
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Or a Note in one board to a Note in another?
I’m looking in the Scapple manual and my linking isn’t working.
This can be done with pure file-based linking in Scapple, in the same way you can link to file:///D:/path/to/something.odt, or whatever. It’s just a link to something.scap instead. Nothing more complicated than that.
With Scrivener-hosted Scapple files, you could make use of the x-scrivener-item:// links rather than file:// links, the ones you get from Edit ▸ Copy ▸ Copy Document as External Link menu command, however it’s worth noting you would then have to “Open in External Editor” from Scrivener to get it open in Scapple. I don’t know if this overall technique is as desirable or necessary if you are also a Scrivener user, and using Scrivener to organise your .scap files.
Might as well drop a link to our knowledge base on Organising Multiple Scapple Documents, at this point.
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The German dubbing of this particular scene is hilarious, because – unlike this character – the pitiful voice actor clearly never heard of a Unix system. Or should I say Ooh-nix. Not the fault of these kids, but it kind of ruins the magic.
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That’s classic.
A funny thing about this scene is that despite it being maligned as a stereotypical case of Hollywood making computers look way cooler than they are (which they so often do), in this particular case, that actually was a file manager that could be used on IRIX systems back then—and it’s very likely the graphics team that worked on Jurassic Park used it themselves.
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Unfortunately the dubbing team didn’t. 
It’s unlikely that the general audience ever came close to FSN and suspects (to this day) that part was the “fraud” in this scene, but the term “Unix” certainly wasn’t unheard of, even back in ’93.
It’s like a self-proclaimed weapons expert who wants you to hand over “that riffle”. Yeah. No. Rather not.
Perfect explanation, thanks!