Hi, could you create a Sticky Topic for users to submit their ideas for improvements?
Personally, I really like the idea of scrapple, in particular its simplicity. I have tried and used various Mindmapping software as well as PPT but often they are too complex for really quick use, and ridiculously expensive for what they offer.
However, I would still like to request some advanced features for Scappy (without its simplicity being lost!) as follows:
Connecting Lines shd have an option whether to include Arrows at either end.
Style of Connecting Lines shd be format-able (e.g. dotted line, dashed, continuous, possibly width/strength, colour).
Notes shd be quickly format-able (same as for 2., plus border formatting)
What is currently called “Borders” could possibly be more accurately called (free-floating) “Shapes”? And Shapes shd include circles/ovals and triangles, and all Shapes
This could all be done from the Toolbar and/or Right Click on the Note/Connecting Line.
These basic features wd be a reason for me to use Scapple beyond its trial period.
Some of these things are already possible, I think.
This one is explained in the Quick Start Guide:
“Hold down the Alt key when dropping a note onto another to create or remove an arrow connection; hold down Alt-Ctrl when dropping for an arrow pointing the other way; hold down Shift-Alt-Ctrl for arrows pointing both ways.”
This has been discussed before, if you search the Scapple boards for “connecting lines” you should find a few discussions. Short answer: there is no way to do this right now, given how the program is designed. It may be implemented in a future update though.
Have a look at Styles. They are also covered briefly in the Quick Start guide. More detail in §6.3 in the user manual, pg. 47.
The words “border” and “shapes” are already used. Shapes are non-text notes that occupy the background, primarily meant to be used to draw boxes around notes. Borders are the line around notes, its thickness, colour and style (jagged line, square, etc.). You should be able to find sufficient latitude to think in terms of “types” with all of the various appearance options available. Given how many different appearance options already exist (and how easy it is to turn them into more formal types (using the aforementioned Styles feature) we don’t really see what such things as triangles would add to the software, except a note shape that is really awkward to write in to.