![]() ![]() Unlike with Scrivener, there is virtually no learning curve with Scapple it’s as simple as dragging one note onto another to connect the two. Scapple is different in that any note can connect to any other note in any way you need. There are many mind-mapping applications, but almost all of them force you to stick to a particular hierarchy, which can be devastating if your ideas should deviate from that hierarchy. Instead, Scapple’s beauty lies in its simplicity and ease of use. Now, Scapple isn’t like Scrivener it’s not packed with features and it probably won’t blow you away by revolutionizing how you write. Sometimes, however, you just need to map out a few ideas, and for this purpose Literature and Latte created another app: Scapple. I’ve already written a review of that app so I’ll just sum it up by saying that it’s a fully-featured studio for writers it has virtually everything you’ll need to write and organize any writing project. I use Scrivener by Literature and Latte for all my writing. These articles were originally from my previous blog at My miniature painting articles range from updates concerning what I’m painting to full guides on how to paint. Miniatures Posts about my hobby of painting The Lord of the Rings miniatures from Games Workshop.There’s a lot more to most of the characters and plot elements in the book, and even a twelve-hour masterpiece of a movie just can’t compare. Overall, Tolkien’s books are deeper and more complex than any film adaptation could be. The Lord of the Rings Explained: What Moviegoers Missed In this series of short articles, I talk about the various ways Tolkien’s books differ from the film adaptations.In the meantime, you can download the public beta of Scapple here. I hope it’ll support AppleScript to make it easier to script the export/import process and allow the app to be integrated with iThoughts on iOS. I’m looking forward to the final version of Scapple. ![]() In fact, one of Scapple’s feature is the ability to present both text and images inline with the document. scap format) to PDF, PNG, plain text, rich text, rich text with attachments, OPML, plain text list, or a folder of images. Personally, my curiosity was piqued when I saw the already-available exporting options: maps can be exported (aside from the app’s own. If this is available in other graphics apps, I’d like to know about it and if it isn’t, other developers should steal it. And the added ability to move when you unzoom just makes it that much better. Drang notes an interesting feature about zooming: you can get a “quick” overview of a document by simply holding the Z key temporarily.Īs someone who’s often working zoomed-in on a small section of a document, I love the idea of getting a temporary overview of the entire document by holding down a key. You can change the style of borders, lines, arrows, and every single note with an Inspector. Notes can be “stacked” to connect a note with another one, simply drop the source onto the destination. ![]() The app is easily navigable with either the cursor or the keyboard you can create a new note with a double-click anywhere on the canvas, and you can select notes as you would with multiple files in the Finder. The app is clearly in beta and not finished, but I’m seeing some interesting ideas already. And it’s designed to make the whole process just as quick and fluid as it is on paper. Scapple allows you to get all of your ideas down, move them around, and find and make the connections as you go along. Individual notes can be as short or as long as you like. Instead, you are free to write anywhere on the virtual paper. It doesn’t expect you to start out with one central idea and branch everything else off that. There is a veritable panoply of mind-mapping software out there, but what’s different about Scapple is that it doesn’t force you to make connections. Featuring a clean canvas to write notes and draw connections, Scapple’s focus is on not forcing users to maintain a hierarchical structure of the document. Developed by Literature and Latte – the creators of Scrivener – Scapple is a new “mind-mapping” app for OS X that has been released as public beta on the developers’ forums. ![]()
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