Commonly used actions can be triggered through intuitive shortcuts: double-click to create a new note and drag one note on top of another to create a link between them.
#REVIEW OF SCAPPLE FOR MAC#
This app can definitely increase your productivity at the office.įollowing a quick installation, Scapple for Mac greets you with a minimal interface. This premium app comes with an impressive array of options for customizing the look and feel of the notes, along with a powerful export feature. An In-App Purchase unlocks lines, arrows, grid drawing, link creation, and exporting.Scapple for Mac makes note-taking quick and effortless, and lets you make connections between your notes using a straightforward drag-and-drop action.
#REVIEW OF SCAPPLE DOWNLOAD#
Mindscope is a free download on the App Store. It’s a distraction-free environment that is more pragmatic than beautiful and feels a lot like sketching ideas on a pad of paper, but with the advantage of being able to reorganize your thoughts after the fact. By eliminating chrome and a wide array of formatting features, I never find myself fiddling with Mindscope’s settings. Notwithstanding those limitations, I appreciate Mindscope’s singular focus on getting ideas down and organized. Without that, Mindscope feels like a temporary place where text lives on its way to a text editor or other destination via the app’s export features. Most of all though, I’d like to create multiple documents, especially since the canvas is limited to the size of the screen. That said, I would like a few more editing and formatting features like the ability to draw boxes around text blocks.
What your finished product may lack in aesthetics, is made up for in the speed of its creation. If you have a lot of ideas to get down and organize, this is a good option because you can create text block after text block and then drag them around, make connections, and create a hierarchy among your thoughts with minimal effort. Mindscope’s focus on quick, text-based entry is its strength. With complex documents, this is a great way to quickly jump to other parts of your document.Ĭross-links are underlined with a dotted line. Navigate to another branch of your document, tap the screen and then the Paste button in the toolbar to paste the copied text in that location or create a link to the original content wiki-style that is underlined with a dotted line. Mindscope allows you to create links across sections of a document by selecting one or more items and tapping the Copy button in the toolbar. You can also create a new level by tapping any text block, which opens a new blank screen where you can start typing. In the top left-hand corner is a navigation bar that shows you where you are in the structure and can be used for moving up one or more levels. The text you dragged onto is now an underlined link – tap on it, and it opens to a new screen revealing the text you dropped into it. It’s a nice touch that lets you know that your text is going somewhere and isn’t just disappearing. If you drag one text block on top of another, it kicks off a little swinging door animation into which the dragged text disappears. One of the main differences though is that you can also create multi-layer hierarchies. So far, except for the gesture-based interaction model, Mindscope feels a lot like Scapple. Mindscope sports a long list of keyboard shortcuts. When you start a drag, a trash can icon appears in the lower left corner of the canvas where you can drag items to delete them. Multiple items can be moved together by dragging a box around them with your finger, which selects the group of items so that when they’re moved, their layout is preserved. As you drag one block close to others, horizontal or vertical guidelines appear so you can align text blocks next to each other on the same baseline or in tidy left, right, or center-justified columns.
As soon as you hit the return key, a new text field opens.Įach text block is a separate object that can be dragged around the screen. That opens a text field with a drag handle on the end that defines the width of the text block you write. To get started with Mindscope, you double tap the screen.
With wiki-like cross-links and the hierarchical depth of an outliner, Mindscope offers a dimensionality to organizing text that isn’t possible with tools like Scapple. That’s a good description as far as it goes, but it doesn’t entirely capture what is possible with his app. John Goering, the developer of Mindscope, describes the app as a magnet board for your brain. Both apps are designed to get text onto a screen in a way that is easily manipulated and organized with as little fussing with formatting as possible. The first thing that came to mind when I saw Mindscope for iOS was Literature and Latte’s Scapple for macOS.
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