Scapple is a great piece of software. It helps particularly with large collections of thought which you can’t bring into a mindmap hierarchy easily. Since I am working with a huge amount of ideas, citations etc., though, the scappling grow quite fast and it is difficult to keep an overview. I would very much appreciate the possibility to link notes to other scapple-files (or may be to other external files on my mac) so that you could switch between different scapple maps according to your actual focus.
I seem to be growing a Scapple tree: it started with one Scap-map and then as branches from that took on a life of their own I started new Scapmaps with jump/switch links from the original (using cmd-L) and now for some topics I’m on a third iteration (and so might need to add new links to the original too for when I’m not feeling linear). Would this kind of thing work for your needs?
You’ve probably worked it our already, but cmd-L in the note to link from, then drag the Scap-map to link to into the resulting box. You have to add file:// in front of the other gubbins to get the syntax right. It’ll take three clicks to activate: one to select the note, one to get it in the right mode (I nearly wrote `mood’ - what was I thinking? On a Tuesday?) and then again to activate it.
Once it’s working you can very easily get hooked on the power …
this is awesome, I couldn’t find this feature in the manual (where you see only a reference to URLs). But, of course, it would be very convenient to have a finder window to select the file you would like to link to. Anyway, this is a big improvement of my workflow. Thanks a lot for your help!
