![]() ![]() ![]() Right now, if the user wants to create a node with the style X, he needs to do a 2 step operation: So, all the operations already exists, it's just a matter of making everything happen in one movement, like is shown in the Scapple video. For me, it's the same as creating a new style (that, now, can be done directly from the dropdown menu), and then using the redefine style operation that I described above. I don't see the complexities that you mention. There are some significant complexities with this since there are so many places that node format can be defined. select one style and use Format->Paste formatīut, as shown in the Scapple video, with a style palette, you can do that by simply drag and drooping from the mindmap into the style. See, for example, Mindmanager, that has both a style palette, and a dropdown menu with preview of the styles: Actually, it can also be improved, to have some of the features proposed here. I don't see any reason to remove the dropdown menu. having a "default" style seems like two equally valid ways to do it to me, but I don't see either as having a real advantage, so I'm inclined to stay with the current FP method. This can already be done by changing the formatting of the "default" node. Do you see this as an important advantage? There are already many ways to make a node. I saw this functionality and thought it was not actually that useful. Would you want to remove the current way to apply styles with dropdown menu or add these 2 to that option?ĭo you mean you want a place in the palette where you can drag a node and it will automatically take its format as a style definition? There are some significant complexities with this since there are so many places that node format can be defined. These are potentially useful for more visual users. Let me take your list of "advantages" as a list of requested functions. ![]() True, but those are both "ifs" that have not been planned or implemented yet. I think the size of the list is not very relevant, as it can be a scrollable list, and if it's implemented as a new tab in the lateral panel, it can accommodate a rather long list. If you prefer to break in topics, those are the advantages of the styles palette:Ģ) visual display of multiple styles at once,ģ) applying styles via click or drag-and-dropĥ) creating new style based on a node, via drag-and-dropĦ) adding nodes of a given style directly from the palette via drag-and-dropħ) choosing a style, directly in the palette, to be the style of any new nodes I think the size of the list is not very relevant, as it can be a scrollable list, and if it's implemented as a new tab in the lateral panel, it can accommodate a rather long list.Īlso, FP styles are a lot more complicated and multiple styles can apply to a node, so I'm not sure how to implement that.Īssigning a style from the styles palette would be identical to assigning from the dropdown box in the toolbar, so there is no need to overcomplicate here. As it's being defined here, the technical styles shouldn't show up in these kind of situations. The list would consist only of the Default style and the user defined styles. Would you want FP to do the same, or to also include user-defined styles? The Scapple style palette shows only 4 predefined styles. I will create a feature request about that. I don't know if it's technically possible to implement a style palette in FP, but I think it would improve significantly the experience for everybody. But, it has an interesting feature that (I think) is not present in Scapple: you can double click one of the styles in the palette to make it the default style for any new nodes. Yed has something similar, but it's more complex (it has multiple style palettes, and also edge and group styles) so it doesn't feel as easy as in Scapple. It feels natural and visually intuitive.Īlso, the simple fact of having a preview of the styles makes it a better experience when assigning a style to a node. You drag from the map to the palette to define or redefine a new style. You drag the node from the styles palette and drop in the map to create a new node with that style. Look how intuitive is the drag and drop operation. You can see how it works in this video (between 3:36-4:44). I found something interesting: the styles palette in the lateral panel (in the Mac version). This got me thinking about it, so I went to take a look again at Scapple, that is sometimes mentioned as the gold standard for easy and natural user experience. This week, in another forum, I saw 2 people saying that they were looking for an alternative to FreePlane because they were overwhelmed by the not-user-friendly UI. ![]()
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