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1. If you have lost your serial number clicking on Retrieve Lost Serial in the reg istration window will take you to our vendor s self service support site where you can request to have the information re sent to you If you do not have the necessary informa tion available to fill out that form please contact us via our support e mail address and we will be happy to look up the information for you 3 2 2 Registering Scapple After purchasing a licence and receiving your unique serial number you can register Scap ple by clicking on the Enter License button in the Scapple is unregistered box that appears whenever you launch Scapple Alternatively you can choose Register from the application Scapple menu In the Serial Number Name box of the registration window enter the exact name under which you registered Scapple Enter your unique serial number in the Serial Number box then click the Register button You must make sure that both the user name and serial number are exactly as they appear in the registration email you received or registration will fail mailto sales literatureandlatte com 10 CHAPTER 3 REGISTRATION AND UPDATES If you receive a message stating that the name or serial number is invalid Check and make sure they are in the right order The name of the software owner should be in the top field and the serial number in the second field Try usin
2. Font Helvetica A Writing Direction Left to Right Set As Defaults Figure 10 2 The Document tab of the Inspector via the Note Style pane or Format menu Clicking on Clear will get rid of the default text colour in which case the default text of notes will be whatever contrasts best with the current document background colour This setting is also used for the colour of connecting lines between notes Font Determines the font face of notes in the current document Each Scapple docu ment can only use a single font face although the text size can vary between notes and text can be formatted using bold italics underline and strikethrough In gen eral it s best to choose the font face when you first create the document rather than much later when you have a complicated arrangement of notes because different font faces have slightly different metrics and changing the font can cause notes to get resized and shift around Writing Direction Determines whether text in the document is left to right or right to left This also determines whether stacks are defined by the left or right edges of notes and the order in which notes are processed when exporting to text formats Set As Defaults Clicking the Set As Defaults button causes all of the settings in the Document pane of the Inspector to be set as the defaults for new documents Part III Appendices Appendix A Prefe
3. Mac App Store Version iCloud data storage is only available to users running OS X 10 8 or above and who bought Scapple through the Mac App Store This is a limitation imposed by Apple not by us only applications purchased from the App Store and Apple s own programs such as TextEdit are permitted iCloud access If you turn on the Documents amp Data service in the iCloud System Preferences pane iCloud enabled apps can store your documents on the iCloud servers You can then use Scapple to open and save documents directly in iCloud You can access your documents in iCloud with all your latest updates intact using more than one Mac running OS X Mountain Lion or greater To enable iCloud 1 Choose System Preferences from the Apple menu then click the iCloud icon 2 If you are not already signed in sign in with the Apple ID you use with iCloud 3 Select Documents amp Data Once iCloud is enabled the standard Open panel will look different In Scapple go to File Open to bring up the Open panel There are now two options in the top left corner iCloud Selecting this presents you with a list of Scapple documents that have been saved to iCloud if any 40 CHAPTER 5 FILE MANAGEMENT ESSENTIALS On My Mac Selecting this presents you with the regular Open panel for opening files from your hard disk You can move documents to and from iCloud by dragging between the Finder and the list of do
4. or For mat gt Font Smaller 8 Alternatively select the notes you wish to affect call up the Inspector if it is not already visible then use the slider text field or stepper under Font Size in the Note Style tab Text size can only be applied to an entire note so even if you are editing the text of the note and select a range of text within it these commands will still only affect the whole note 6 2 3 Changing the Text Colour of Individual Notes How Default Note Colours Work The following describes how to set the text colour for individual notes To set the default text colour used by all notes in a doc ument see Changing the Default Text Colour subsection 6 1 3 The default text colour is used by notes that don t have a specific text colour set or to put it another way when you apply a text colour to individual notes as described below that over rides the default text colour but setting a default colour will not override individual note settings To apply a separate text colour to notes first select the notes you wish to affect then do one of the following Choose Format Colors Change Text Color This will bring up the colour palette where you can choose the new text colour Click on the Text Color colour picker in the Note Style pane of the Inspector This will call up a popover with a selection of colours from which to choose or if you want acustom colo
5. Set From Current Document button As you might have already picked up styles are applicable to both notes and back ground shapes If you use a style that contains characteristics specific only to shapes like magnetism it will simply be ignored by notes Likewise shapes will ignore all settings pertaining to text formatting 6 3 1 Using Styles To apply styles to notes or shapes simply select the items you wish to apply the style to using whatever method you prefer Next either use the Format Note Style Apply Note Style sub menu to choose the style or right click on any of the selected items to bring up the contextual menu in most cases this will be most convenient as the sub menu is provided at the top level of the contextual menu 6 3 2 Deleting Styles Styles can be deleted from the Format Note Styles Delete Note Style sub menu As mentioned before this will not impact any notes you ve already created It will only remove the style from the list If you ve used that style before you can always get it back by selecting a note that used that style in the past and creating a new style from it 6 3 3 Creating Styles Styles are created by selecting the single note or shape you wish to use as a prototype for the appearance and then using the Format Note Styles New Note Style from Selection menu command This will bring up an option panel Figure 6 8 Name The name that you provide will be used in all of th
6. The canvas is the background or the virtual paper 2 A note A Scapple board can contain as many individual notes as you want Notes can be long or short can wrap across multiple lines and can be formatted with borders text colour fill colour bold italics underline and strikethrough 3 A connecting line between notes Connecting lines are always dotted lines unless there is an arrow at either end or at both ends 4 An arrowed connecting line between notes Since the line has an arrow it is solid Arrows can be on either end and can even be on both ends as shown to the left of 4 in the figure 5 The inspector This can be called up by selecting the View Show Inspector menu command or by hitting x81 6 The footer bar The number of notes is displayed in the centre of the footer bar If more than one note is selected the number of selected notes is also displayed 12 4 2 NOTES 13 e090 _ Scappleinterface scap Edited re 6 0 0 Inspector Full Screen mode ML Lion l Select Stacked Notes Document ae Background SH ext style ee Should be able to 7 with boxes and sh Bateimtelin jes Note Body hould be able to write notes der one another and if you Font Size e in one or delete any Gi ers move up or down automatically Alignment Pre ni Text Color Keep prefs simple S ca e Fill Color Default font size s3 p p Faded Default width T Auto size notes Ve N Borders Defaul
7. Toggles the visibility of printed page guides subsection 9 3 1 on the Scap ple board background Using these guides you can see where one sheet of paper will end and another will begin making it easier to avoid situations where notes straddle a page break Actual Size 380 Reverts the current zoom level of the view to the default level This can also be done by clicking the Reset button in the Footer Bar Zoom To Fit 389 Adjusts the zoom by increasing or decreasing the magnification so that every note on the map can be seen at once Zoom In lt sUpArrow Incrementally increase the magnification of the board The slider in the Footer Bar can also be used to adjust the scale of the board visually Zoom Out lt 3DownArrow Incrementally decreases the magnification of the board Zoom To Selection 38 Works in a fashion similar to View Zoom to Fit save that only those notes that are selected will be fitted into the view Zoom To Random 8R Zooms the view to a random note anywhere on the board Enter Full Screen 38F Mac OS X 10 7 Expands the current window to fill the entire display pushing aside the menu bar and the system Dock This places the window on its own Space in Apple s Mission Control Each document must occupy its own Space 92 APPENDIX B MENUS AND KEYBOARD SHORTCUTS QuickZoom Z On account of how this feature works it cannot be listed in a menu as it only works while the keyboard shortcut
8. character to separate top level sub menu and commands Example To apply the Blue Bubble note style to a selection of notes invoke the Format Note Style Apply Note Style Blue Bubble command Keyboard shortcuts will use the following symbols 38 the Command key or the Apple key is the one located directly to the left and right of your spacebar the Option key is also labelled the Alt key on some keyboards depending on which country you purchased your Mac from Some laptops only have one Option key on the left side Control is usually located to the left and right of the Option keys on their respective side Some laptops only have one Control key between the Option key and the Fn key on the left side the Shift keys are rarely used by themselves in shortcuts but are often used in combination with other modifier keys Using Keyboard Shortcuts When a keyboard shortcut requires a combination of modi fier keys they will be printed together Example x81 which matches View Show Inspector means you should hold down both of these modifier keys together and then tap the key on your keyboard Some shortcuts in Scapple do not require any keyboard modifiers at all The Z key for example will enable the QuickZoom fea ture while it is depressed Naturally these shortcuts cannot be used when editing a note as the Z key all by itself will type in that letter Contextual Menus On a Mac these are ac
9. choose File Save a Version Taking Care of Versioned Files Your Mac will use an advanced feature to save each individual version in such a way that the old copies do not get in your way such as when using Save As These versions are saved into a special portion of the disk that is tied to the visible file Because this relies upon proprietary Mac technology versions will be lost forever if the file is transferred to another computer using a method that is not specifically Mac technology For example if the file is transferred automatically between computers using Dropbox the versions will be aggressively discarded whenever switching machines Likewise versions will not survive when e mailed or transferred via Windows file sharing networks or when stored on disks that are not formatted with HFS It is therefore recommended that you periodically save separate duplicates of files and keep them safe as backups especially when using synchronisation tool or collabo rating with others This may already be done if you use Time Machine or another periodic backup system 5 4 3 Reverting Documents to the Previous Version If you have unsaved changes in a document you can revert it to its last saved or last opened version _ ScappleSample scap Edited v Rename Move To Duplicate Lock Last Saved Today 18 53 Last Opene Browse All Versions Figure 5 2 Reverting to the last saved versio
10. fonts 6 1 CHANGING THE APPEARANCE OF A SCAPPLE BOARD 45 Choosing a Good Font Not all fonts support bold and italics so if bold or italics aren t available try choosing a different font Likewise if you choose a new font and find that bold and italics get wiped from your document hit undo Edit Undo or 88Z and try choosing a different font Be aware that different fonts have a variety of dimensions so if you change the font for a Scapple board that already has lots of notes in it the notes may seem to move around to accommodate the new font stacks will in fact adjust their positions as necessary It s therefore usually better to decide on a font early on in the Scapple board s gestation 6 1 5 Changing the Writing Direction Users who write in a language that runs from right to left instead of from left to right can change this via the Inspector or the Format Writing Direction menu as follows 1 Open the Document tab of the Inspector 2 Choose Right to Left under Writing Direction Note that the writing direction setting affects the way stacks are detected and the way notes get resized too changing everything to work from right to left not just typing 6 1 6 Changing the Default Appearance If you would rather new Scapple boards use your own preferred appearance settings rather than the default beige background and black text you can easily set this up via the Inspector as follo
11. see the word Edited in grey as depicted in the document version management screenshot Figure 5 1 when the file contains new changes 2 Click the arrow a menu will appear 3 Choose Browse All Versions The current Scapple board window will be ar ranged on the left and a stack of windows containing all previous versions will be arranged on the right 4 Click the tickmarks along the timeline on the right of the screen to browse versions through time Or click on the black title bars behind the Scapple window on the right Grey marks represent versions stored on your internal hard drive Pink marks represent versions stored on your backup disk 5 Do one of the following To restore your document to a previous version display the version then click Restore To duplicate a version in a new document display the version then press the Option key and click Restore a Copy To delete a version display the version hold the pointer to the right of the title click the arrow and then choose Delete This Version To delete all versions press the Option key while holding the pointer to the right of a version s title click the arrow and then choose Delete Old Ver sions To leave your document as is without changes click Done 5 4 USING AUTOSAVED VERSIONS OF YOUR SCAPPLE BOARDS 37 5 4 2 Explicitly Saving Versions lt On OS X 10 8 and above choose File Save On OS X 10 7
12. 2 Starting a New Document Based on an Existing Document On OS X 10 7 and above Scapple uses the new autosave features built into the operating system Read more about these features in Using Autosaved Versions of Your Scapple Boards section 5 4 Briefly 1 In Scapple choose File Open and then select the file you want to use as a start ing point 2 Choose File Duplicate On Mac OS 10 8 you will be prompted for a new name which you can type directly into the title bar of the new window Holding down the Option key will change this menu command to the more familiar Save As 33 34 CHAPTER 5 FILE MANAGEMENT ESSENTIALS 3 Edit the new document that is created 4 When you re done choose File Save If you haven t already chosen a name for the new document you ll be prompted for one at this time On OS X 10 6 1 In Scapple choose File Open and then select the file you want to use as a starting point 2 Choose File Save As and choose the file name and location for the new docu ment Creating Templates If you have a starter board you anticipate using frequently to create new files you can select the document in Finder and use the File Get Info menu command or 381 In the General section of this palette you ll see an option named Stationery pad When this is enabled the original document will never be opened directly Instead a new copy will be created from it automat
13. 382 438Z Undoes or redoes the changes made to the document in the order they were made Undo will step backward in the change list and redo will return forward If changes are made after undoing the redo history will be erased Most actions that can be taken in Scapple can be undone Editing a note s text enters an isolated state where undo and redo will only act upon the edits made to the text Once you finish editing the overall undo and redo history will be returned to seamlessly Cut Copy and Paste 38x 38C 38V Cut copy and paste act fundamentally as they do in other applications 88 APPENDIX B MENUS AND KEYBOARD SHORTCUTS When working with notes in a Scapple document all of the notes in the selec tion will be acted upon You can use these commands within the same board or from one board to another Pasting notes into another text editor will place the text content of the notes including any inline formatting if the target editor is compatible with rich text When editing text the commands work as you would expect them to in any text editing application Read Copy and Paste subsection 9 2 3 for more information on how notes and text can be copied cut and pasted Delete delete Permanently removes the selected notes or shapes from the board This action can be undone Arrow Keys Move Notes M Toggle between Movement Mode subsection 4 2 4 and selection mode Movement mode lets you nudge notes
14. 6 Indenting Within a Stack If you are using a stack to create a list of items it may at times be useful to indent portions of the stack If you try and move or resize these notes normally the stack will be broken Instead use the dedicated indentation feature which will block indent the text of the note without changing its width or position 1 Select the notes you wish to indent or outdent 2 Press Tab to indent or demote notes by 1cm Use Tab to outdent or promote the selected items Text cannot be outdented beyond the left margin of the note 4 6 CREATING HYPERLINKS TO FILES 31 In some cases you will want to resize notes after indenting them particularly if they were narrow to begin with While selected all notes can be resized together subsec tion 4 2 6 4 6 Creating Hyperlinks to Files Scapple has the capability of adding hyperlinks to ranges of text within notes and through that ability the files on your computer are as open to you as targets as locations on the Web For many file types you can simply drag and drop the file you wish to link to into the Scapple board This will automatically create a new note with text linking to your file To manually create a link to a file follow these instructions 1 Create a note and type in the title of the link as normal text 2 Select the text that will become the hyperlink and use the Edit Add Link 38L menu command 3 In the text field where the URL wil
15. Equation added to the menu system Selecting this will launch MathType allowing you to create an equation When you close the equation editor window in MathType the equation will appear in Scapple You can then double click on the equation to launch MathType again and edit the equation Both images and equations are treated as normal notes for most purposes They can be styled and connected to other notes 9 2 Getting Work Out of Scapple There are several ways to get your work out of Scapple and into other programs The File Export gt sub menu is the most obvious with the most widely useful export format perhaps being PDF but these are far from the only choices 9 2 1 The Order of Things Before exploring the export possibilities an important note on exporting to text formats is in order Scapple is at its most fundamental level a freeform application notes can be written anywhere connections can be made all over the place forming loopy circles and M bius strips There is thus no logical order of notes for Scapple to walk through when exporting to linear formats such as single text files Neither is there any inherent hetp www dessci com 64 CHAPTER 9 IMPORT EXPORTING amp PRINTING hierarchy that Scapple can use as a basis for working out the best order in which to export notes As a result Scapple can only make educated guesses at how to best order the notes when exporting to linear formats Imagine seven n
16. Fully selects all notes directly and indirectly con nected to the currently selected note s Thus note Alpha connected to note Beta which is in turn connected to note Gamma will all be selected if this command is used on any of the notes Invert Selection 38 Flips the selection state for the entire board All items that were selected will be removed from the selection and all items not selected will be added Deselect sD All notes will be deselected This can also be done by clicking anywhere on the background but in cases where a background shape is filling the entire view this command will properly deselect everything for you Insert MathType Equation Inserts a MathType image equation as a new note in the centre of the current view If MathType is not properly installed this menu command will be hidden Add Edit Link 3L Applicable only when editing the text of a note While editing text the menu command will read Add Link You may then copy and paste the URL into the provided dialogue box to add a hyperlink to the selected text When a link is selected or even if the cursor is currently within the span of the hy perlink the menu label will read Edit Link This will bring up the dialogue box so you can edit the target URL of it Find Provides general tools for finding text that has been typed into notes Read Searching in Scapple chapter 8 for more on using the search featur
17. SOS merge Zoorn to Selection too QuickZoom Hold down z to zoom out let go again to zoom back in on the Cmd double click mouse position could create a connected note Other shortcuts for h i tC 2 TOES Zoom to Selection too X Pi Figure 4 6 When dragging a magnetic shape the drag ghost shows the enclosed notes that will move 4 4 5 Connecting Shapes Since dragging notes onto shapes is a fundamental task the ordinary behaviour of drop ping one thing onto another to connect them is disabled However a shape can be dropped onto a note or another shape to connect the two Because of this if you wish to draw an arrow pointing from a note to a shape then you must start the drag from the shape and hold down the Option and Command keys together to draw an inverse arrow 4 5 Stacks Notes can be stacked on top of one another to create lists or columns of text Fig ure 4 7 When notes are in a stack changes to the height of one of the stacked notes will cause the notes in the stack below it to be moved up or down automatically For instance if you have three notes in a stack and edit the second one as you add text to the second 4 5 STACKS 29 note resulting in it getting taller the note below it will move down if you remove text so that the second note becomes shorter the note below it will move up This is a stack of notes They can be easily created with 3 e Stac
18. Scrivener is our writing software package it s easy to move notes between Scapple and Scrivener The general assumption is that Scapple is the place you hash out ideas in their very early stages and when Scapple s toolset has helped you work out where you want to go you take those ideas into Scrivener for further develop ment But it s easy enough to go the other way too and bring notes from Scrivener into Scapple so that you can play with them in a more freeform environment Here are some simple ways of incorporating Scapple into your Scrivener workflow or vice versa 9 5 1 Dragging Ideas From Scrivener Into Scapple A separate note will be created in Scapple for each dragged document The created notes will contain the titles and synopses of the Scrivener documents that were dragged in and if dragging from a freeform corkboard they will be placed in the same relative positions as the cards in Scrivener Items can be dragged from the Binder sidebar Outliner or Corkboard editor views in the order that they appear in Scrivener Dragging From a Freeform Corkboard 1 In Scrivener select the folder containing the notes you want to import in the binder 72 CHAPTER 9 IMPORT EXPORTING amp PRINTING 2 Switch to corkboard mode so that you see the documents as cards on the cork board 3 Switch the corkboard to freeform mode using the segmented control in the footer bar 4 In the freeform corkboard select the documents
19. and are editing the text of a note you can send a selection of text to Scrivener via this menu Quit Scapple 38 Quits the software closing all windows On Mac OS X 10 7 win dows will normally be saved automatically as they are closed and re opened for you when you start Scapple again On 10 6 you will be prompted to save any documents with pending changes Quit and Keep Close Windows 38 Q Mac OS X 10 7 When holding down the Option key this alternate menu command will appear Whether this displays Close or Keep windows depends upon your system preferences to reopen projects that were open on quit thus allowing you to temporarily override the default This will not change your preference it only impacts the one time you quit B 2 File Menu Contains commands for managing documents Scapple boards as well as moving data in and out of them via import export and printing This section will list the all of the available commands on Mac OS X 10 7 or greater marking those that will not appear on 10 6 New N Immediately creates a new blank Scapple board to work on section 5 1 Your work will begin autosaving immediately to a temporary file on 10 7 until it is given a name and location to be saved to Open 30 Open an existing Scapple board from the disk section 5 3 You can also load documents by double clicking on them in the Finder or dragging them to the Scapple icon Open Recent gt Select f
20. and name of the file is important to the software that is organising them and changing either of these parameters can cause the containing software to lose track of your files 5 6 Finding and Locating Scapple Documents If you aren t sure where a particular Scapple file is located on your hard disk there are a couple of ways of finding it If you have the file open in Scapple or can open it via the File Open Recent gt sub menu then you can right click or Command click on the document title or 5 7 USING ICLOUD 39 icon at the top of the window This will open a menu showing the path to the file on disk in an ascending order of hierarchy all the way to the volume or disk it is stored on Choose the second item from the top in the list which will be a folder to open the Finder with the file selected If you don t have the file open in Scapple and it is not available in the File Open Recent sub menu the easiest way to find your files is to use Spotlight You can either type the name of the document into Spotlight including the scap extension for best results or a snippet of text that you know occurs in the document Using Spotlight to search for scap all by itself will return a list of all Scapple documents indexed by Spotlight It is important to know that Spotlight can have blind spots either intentionally imposed by privacy settings or with some types of removable media 5 7 Using iCloud
21. be selected Starts With the phrase will only match if the word starts with the text typed into the search field Whole Word use this option to avoid cases where the phrase might exist as a component of other words Ends With the phrase will only match if the word ends with the text typed into the search field The action buttons along the left are as follows 4 Next finds the next instance of the text in the search field Previous returns the previous match Replace replaces the currently selected text and then waits for your command Replace amp Find replaces the currently selected text and automatically jumps to the next search result Replace All replaces every instance of the search text with the contents of the Replace field even if it is empty within the selected replace all scope Chapter 9 Import Exporting amp Printing Scapple makes it easy to bring in existing notes and to export your work for use in other applications or for sharing with other people 9 1 Getting Work Into Scapple Bringing existing notes and files into Scapple is all done using drag and drop there is no dedicated Import menu 9 1 1 Importing Existing Notes Scapple can read the following text file types gt txt rtf and rtfd 4 doc 4 docx odt To import text files of these types simply drag them from the the Finder and drop them onto your Scapple document If you drop
22. disk This will not overwrite any existing styles in the document So if any styles have the same name you will see duplicate entries and may wish to rename them You can do so by applying the style to a note and then using the Format Note Style Redefine Note Style From Selection sub menu Font gt The following commands can be used to style notes or alternatively selected ranges of text within a note They each work in a toggle fashion Read more about Note and Shape Style Options section 6 2 lt Bold 3B Italic 81 Underline 8U lt Strikethrough Shift3s Bigger 38 Incrementally increases the text size of the entire note To set the precise point size of the text use The Inspector chapter 10 Smaller 38 Incrementally decreases the text size of the entire note Alignment gt Alignment impacts the position of text within the note s total width These forms of alignment should be familiar from any word processor If you are looking to align the notes themselves amongst one another use the Notes gt Align gt sub menu If the width of the note is precisely as wide as the text content within it these commands may not appear to do anything Experimentally changing the width of the note should prove they have worked Align Left 9 Center 3 B 6 FORMAT MENU 99 Justify C81 Align Right Indents gt Indenting adjusts the amount of block padding on the left of the
23. document as a whole It comprises two panes New Note and Document which are detailed below Many of the options available in the Inspector are also available in the Format menu although the options in the Document pane appear nowhere else Note that all options in the inspector will be disabled greyed out if there are no documents open Individual options may be disabled depending on which objects are currently selected in the frontmost document For instance all options in the Note Style pane are disabled if no notes are selected and options that are not applicable to background shapes are disabled when background shapes are selected 10 1 Note Style The Note Style pane provides options for editing the appearance of notes and back ground shapes Text Style Allows you to apply bold italic underline or strike through formatting to the text of a note If whole notes are selected the formatting is applied to the entire text If a range of text is selected within a note while it is being edited the format ting is applied only to the selected range These options are also available in the Format Font sub menu and can be applied using standard keyboard shortcuts Font Size Determines the font size of selected notes The default font size for new notes can be set via the Preferences The font face itself is set via the Document pane of the Inspector since Scapple documents are limited to using a s
24. entire notes or only to selections of text within the note itself Using Boldface To apply or remove boldface on a note do one of the following To make whole notes appear in bold select the notes you wish to affect and choose Format gt Font Bold or hit 38B Alternatively select the notes you wish to affect call up the Inspector View Show Inspector or X 1 ensure the Note Style tab is selected and click the B button under Text Style To apply boldface only to certain ranges of text within a note first double click the note to edit it then select the text you wish to affect To remove boldface from a note repeat the above process the Bold command toggles boldface on and off for both text and whole notes 48 CHAPTER 6 FORMATTING AND APPEARANCE Using Italics To apply or remove italics on a note do one of the following To make whole notes appear in italics select the notes you wish to affect and choose Format gt Font Italic or hit 381 Alternatively select the notes you wish to affect and click the I button under Text Style in the Note Style tab of the Inspector To apply italics only to certain ranges of text within a note first double click the note to edit it then select the text you wish to affect To remove italics from a note repeat the above process the Italic command toggles italics on and off Using Underlining To apply or remove un
25. entirely freeform 14 CHAPTER 4 LEARNING THE ROPES 4 2 1 Creating Notes To create a new note do one of the following Double click anywhere on the background canvas area to create a new note at the mouse point By default the new note will have the placeholder text New Note selected ready for you to type over it with your own text If any notes are selected you can hold down modifier keys while double clicking to create a new notes that are connected to the selected notes Holding down the Option X key will create a new note that is connected by an arrow pointing to the new note holding down the Command 8 key will create a new note that is connected by a dashed line to the selected notes Use Notes New Note Return If there are no notes selected this will create a new note in the view area If there is a note selected this will create a new note directly underneath the selected note in which case the menu item will appear as New Stacked Note in the Notes menu section 4 5 You can also use one of the options in the Notes New Connected Note sub menu to create a new note that is connected to the selected note these options are only available if one or more notes are selected You can create a new note connected to the selected note by a dotted line or by an arrow The associated keyboard shortcuts can also be used to create a new note connected by a dotted line above below to the left or right o
26. is the frontmost project 2 In Scapple go to File Print 8P to bring up the Print panel 3 In the lower left of the Print panel click on the PDF button and select Save PDF to Scrivener from the menu that appears 9 5 INTEGRATION WITH SCRIVENER 73 A PDF version of your Scapple document will be placed as the last item in the Research folder of the frontmost Scrivener project Note that the Save PDF to Scrivener service is not available in the Mac App Store version of Scrivener owing to App Store rules Once your PDF file is imported into Scrivener you can split the editor and refer to your Scapple PDF alongside your writing 9 5 4 Importing Your Scapple Document Into Scrivener As ls Instead of importing your Scapple document into Scrivener as a static PDF file you can simply drag the scap file itself into Scrivener s binder placing it anywhere except in the Draft folder On OS X 10 7 and above you can then view the Scapple document as a Quick Look preview inside Scrivener on 10 6 it will appear as a linked file because the Quick Look preview is not available on systems earlier than 10 7 Then use the Open in External Editor feature of Scrivener to open and edit the version of the Scapple document that is now stored inside your Scrivener project Chapter 10 The Inspector The Inspector allows you to customise the appearance of individual notes and back ground shapes as well as of the
27. multiple files they will be added to the document in a stack If you import a single file you will be asked if you wish to split it into multiple notes If you tick the Split into multiple notes separated by option you can then tell Scapple which characters should be sought as representing the division between notes For instance entering two return characters here which is the default will cause Scapple to go through the document and split off new notes wherever it encounters an empty line 62 9 2 GETTING WORK OUT OF SCAPPLE 63 Just the Text Ma am Note that only the text with basic formatting is imported images tables and suchlike will not be retained It is also possible to drag in selections of text from most word processors Simply select some text in Scrivener Microsoft Word Pages or TextEdit and drag it directly onto your Scapple document 9 1 2 Importing Images Importing images works exactly the same way as importing text files all you need to do is drag image files from the Finder onto your Scapple document Their default width will conform to that supplied in the preferences Appendix A Images like shapes can be resized from any angle and they will always retain their original aspect ratio 9 1 3 Adding MathType Equations If you have MathType from Design Science you can easily add equations to Scapple and edit them If MathType is installed you will see Edit Insert MathType
28. note underneath is brought to the front or vice versa This is easy to do Bring a note partially obscured by other notes to the front 1 Select the note you wish to bring to the front 2 Use Notes Bring to Front 3 Alternatively right click on the note and select Bring to Front from the contex tual menu To send a note obscuring another note to the back 1 Select the note you wish to send to the back 2 Choose Notes Send to Back 38 Alternatively right click on the note and select Send to Back from the contextual menu Background shapes as their name implies are always located on the bottom layer beneath all notes They can however be arranged among themselves using these same commands 4 3 Connections When you re throwing ideas around on the page some notes exist in isolation while others are connected In Scapple you are free to connect your ideas however you like Any note can be easily connected to any other note making connections is as simple as dragging and dropping one note onto another Notes can be connected by simple dotted lines or by lines with arrows at either both ends Connections in Scapple unlike those in most diagramming and mind mapping appli cations don t have any internal meaning and are fundamentally a means of connecting your ideas visually just as you might draw lines or arrows between notes on a piece of paper gt They can have some effect on
29. notes and or shapes together The item selected first will form the hub for the connecting lines when more than two notes or shapes are selected If you are looking for a way to connect every selected note with every other selected note use Notes Connect All below 94 APPENDIX B MENUS AND KEYBOARD SHORTCUTS Arrowed Connections Above Initially Selected Note On Right Figure B 2 New arrowed notes in the four directions Connect All Connects each note or shape with every other item in the selection Connect With Arrow 3 Connects two or more selected notes and or shapes to gether The item selected first will be the one which points to the subsequently selected items If you are looking for a way to connect multiple notes back to a single note it is best to use the mouse to drag a selection of notes onto the target note with 13 held down Remove Arrows 3 Remove all arrows from the selected notes reverting them to basic dashed line connections Disconnect lt Completely disconnects all selected notes shapes among each other or if only a single item is selected any lines of connection leading to or from it Magnetic 38M Applicable only the background shapes this will toggle whether or not the shape will magnetically carry overlapping notes with it when the shape is moved subsection 4 4 4 Stack 3 Applicable to selections of two or more notes Notes will be stacked in order of distance i
30. order of distance from the initially selected note in any direction so that all of the text is displayed in a single note Bring Forward To Front x38 When notes or shapes are overlapping one another this command will bring the selected items to the top This and the following command will make no impact on connection lines Connections will always be drawn in a predetermined level no matter where the items they come from are displayed Send To Back 38 As above only the selected items will be pushed to the bottom of the stack B 6 FORMAT MENU 97 B 6 Format Menu The Format menu is used to set the appearance of notes the text within them and shapes All of the format settings that can be applied to notes can be saved into Note Styles Note Style Note styles provide a way to save select appearance attributes of a note or shape and quickly recall them later on selected items on the board Styles are saved into each document separately A few presets will be created into new documents as practical examples Read more about Note Style Presets section 6 3 New Note Style From Selection Applicable when only a single note or shape has been selected This will bring up the New Style panel where you can choose what aspects of the selected note will be saved into the style for future use Apply Note Style Operates on all selected notes and or shapes applying the selected style to them In some cas
31. reference to further documentation on the feature if one is available It is thus useful as a topical table of contents B 1 Scapple Menu The main application menu contains integration tools with other software application management information and preferences About Scapple Display the credits and version information Preferences 38 Application preferences allow you to alter aspects of how the software looks and feels Read Preferences Appendix A for more information on what can be changed Registration Direct Sale Only If you are using the demo version of Scapple and de cide to purchase it use this menu command to input the registration serial name and number and activate the software Read Registration section 3 2 for more information If the software is already registered this will show your serial name for reference Check for Updates Direct Sale Only The software can be set to check for up dates automatically in the General preference tab section A 1 If you have dis abled this or just wish to check before the next scheduled check this menu com mand will force an update check When updates are available you will be walked through the automatic update process Read Application Updates section 3 3 for more information on this topic 84 B 2 FILE MENU 85 Services Services are how different programs on your Mac can communicate with one another For example if you have Scrivener installed
32. shapes causing them to merge into the background This can be useful for temporarily taking some notes out of the limelight When shapes are faded the notes that are overlapping them will appear faded also This doesn t change the state of these notes themselves If they are dragged out of the shape they will return to full opacity All style changes can be made using the The Inspector chapter 10 or various menu commands and keyboard shortcuts To call up the inspector for changing note styles 1 Use the View gt Show Inspector menu command 31 2 Click on the Note Style tab if necessary See also Note Style Presets section 6 3 Notes will always technically have a fill rather than being truly transparent This is to keep the board clean and easy to read when many connection lines intersect beneath a note When no fill is chosen the background colour of the board will seamlessly be used 6 2 NOTE AND SHAPE STYLE OPTIONS 47 oo Inspector EEEE vocen Text Style Bebop Med BS Note Body Font Size es 12 pt o Alignment BEEE Text Color iz Fill Color v _ Faded Borders Border Color MENMEEEZ Thickness No Border Style Rounded _ Shadow Figure 6 4 The Note Style tab of the Inspector 6 2 1 Applying Bold Italics Underline and Strikethrough Unlike most other note styles the four basic font variations and adornments can be applied to
33. side for expansion and stacks the right edge will be need to be flush instead of the left Shadow Add a simple drop shadow to the selected notes or shapes Fade 38F Fading notes and shapes will reduce their visual impact on the board by causing them to blend into the background colour or texture When shapes are faded any overlapping items will be faded as well so long as they remain overlap ping they will return to full opacity if dragged out of the faded shape Read more about Fading Notes subsection 6 2 6 B 7 Window Menu A window refers to the standard container that holds the Scapple board with the traffic lights along the top left document title in the middle and resize handle on the bottom right This menu concerns itself with the management of these windows themselves B 8 HELP MENU 101 Minimize 38M Reduce the active topmost window to an icon in the system Dock Simply click on the icon to restore it or use its named entry from the lower half of this menu Zoom Increases the size of the window to fill all available space excluding any protected areas like the main application menu bar and the system Dock If you wish to utilise OS X 10 7 full screen mode use View Enter Full Screen Bring All to Front Pushes all Scapple documents to the top of your desktop window stack obscuring any open windows from other applications behind them Below these stock commands a list of each open Sca
34. text or the right when typing in right to left mode by a fixed amount Indenting is often useful when forming lists of notes in a stack The overall width of the note will not be changed by this command only the formatting of the text within it Increase Indent Level Tab lt gt Decrease Indent Level Tab Remove Indents Removes all applied indenting from the selected notes Colors The Colors sub menu provides access to the three main characteristics of notes and shapes that can have their colour changed text for notes borders and the background fill Change Text Color Will present the standard system colour palette Any changes made to the palette will be immediately reflected upon the text of the selected notes Ranges of text within a note cannot have their colour specifically changed Clear Text Color Removes any custom colour settings from the text of the se lected notes They will go back to using the document defaults as set in the Document tab of the Inspector chapter 10 Change Fill Color 4 88C Applicable to both notes and shapes the selected background fill colour will change as colours are set using the system colour palette Fill is the default colour type that will be changed if the palette is called up with the keyboard shortcut Clear Fill Color Removes any custom colour settings for the background fill on selected notes or shapes Change Border Color Applicable to both n
35. text you wish to split into a new note Portions of this note will be split Portions of this note will be left from the rest with the remainder left alone alone split from the rest with the remainder 3 Choose Notes Split A new note will be created containing the selected text stacked directly underneath the existing note The selected text will be re moved from the original note Merging several notes 1 Select the notes you wish to merge ensuring that the first note you select is the one you wish the notes to be merged into The remaining notes in the selection will be sorted based upon their distance from the first 2 Choose Notes Merge See Also Stacks section 4 5 Selecting Notes subsection 4 2 2 4 2 9 Changing the Appearance of Notes You can change the appearance of notes in several ways Add a coloured border 4 2 NOTES 21 Change the fill background colour of notes Change the text colour Make text bigger or smaller Add bold italics underline or strikethrough Change the overall shape of the note You can also change the font and background colour used for the Scapple board To change the appearance of notes select the notes you wish to affect and then use one of the following methods Use the Inspector which can be opened by choosing View Show Inspector 1 Use the commands available in the Format Menu section B 6 A selection of c
36. thicknesses 51 52 CHAPTER 6 FORMATTING AND APPEARANCE 2 Click on the Border Color colour picker in the Note Style pane of the Inspec tor and choose a colour from the popover that appears For a custom colour click on Show Colors at the bottom of the popover to bring up the full colour palette panel To remove the colour from the border do one of the following 1 Choose Format Colors Clear Border Color 2 Click on the Border Color colour picker in the Note Style pane of the Inspec tor and choose the white square with the diagonal red line through it in the popover that appears Notes with borders that do not have any specific colour applied will use the default colour set in the respective Preferences Appendix A tab If there is no default colour set you have chosen the no colour square with the red diagonal bar through it in the colour picker then the default text colour for the document will be used If a border colour is added to a note that does not already have a border the default one pixel border style will be applied automatically Changing Border Styles Black one pixel border Orange three pixel border The default Rounded style The default Rounded style Figure 6 6 The four available border styles To change the style of the border select the items you wish to affect then do one of the following 6 2 NOTE AND SHAPE STYLE OPTIONS 53 1 Use the Forma
37. what you intended and Scapple sadly has no access to your intentions Often therefore it may be better to export the document to PDF format and copy and paste the notes from the PDF document into a text document in the order you re quire For instance you could import the PDF file into Scrivener have a text document open alongside it in a split view and copy and paste between the two Read more about Integration with Scrivener section 9 5 9 2 GETTING WORK OUT OF SCAPPLE 65 Table 9 1 Available Export Formats Format Uses PDF Perhaps the most useful format since it can be opened almost anywhere shows the document exactly as it appears in Scapple and allows you to select and copy the text of notes PNG Useful if you want to produce a simple image file from your Scapple document Plain Text txt Produces a simple plain text file that can be opened in any text editor You can choose how the notes are separated Rich Text rtf Produces a rich text file that can be opened in most word processors including Microsoft Word You can choose how the notes are separated Note that images are not included when exporting to the RTF format Rich Text with Attachments rtfd Produces a rich text file that includes images You can choose how the notes are separated RTFED files can be opened by most Mac text programs including Pages and TextEdit Microsoft Word cannot open RTFD files Plain Text List txt Produces a sim
38. with the Thick ness drop down menu enabled and the three pixel border option highlighted Why Doesn t the Border Thickness Change Immediately While a note or shape is selected the thickness of the border will be intentionally obscured behind the se lection halo This is to increase the clarity of what is selected and not but has the side effect of making changes to the selection invisible until that selection is removed Changing Border Colours To apply a colour to the border first select the items you wish to affect then do one of the following 1 Choose Format Colors gt Change Border Color and use the colour palette panel that appears to set the border colour Note that if any selected notes do not already have a border a one pixel border will be assigned to them automatically 6 2 NOTE AND SHAPE STYLE OPTIONS 8 0 0 Inspector NESE Document Text Style B i uis Note Body Font Size a Alignment 2 23 Text Color mz Vv Anote with no border Fill Color Faded A note set to one pixel This note is set to two pixels Borders Border Color x Three pixels Thickness V No Border Extra bold at four pixels Style Five pixels for maximum impact J Shadow The six border widths The background shape around these notes has been set to two pixels Figure 6 5 A demonstration of the available border
39. you wish to import into Scapple 5 Drag the documents from Scrivener s freeform corkboard into your Scapple docu ment 9 5 2 Dragging Notes From Scapple Into Scrivener 1 In Scapple select the notes you wish to import into Scrivener 2 Drag the notes into Scrivener s binder or Scrivener s freeform corkboard notes can only be dragged into the corkboard if it is in freeform mode If notes are dragged into the freeform corkboard they will maintain the same rela tive positions they had in Scapple When dragged into the binder Scapple will make an educated guess at the best order to use see The Order of Things subsection 9 2 1 For tunately it s very easy to rearrange items in Scrivener s binder so if the notes aren t in the order you would like you can simply drag them into the correct order once imported 9 5 3 Importing Your Scapple Document Into Scrivener As a PDF If you just want to reference the network of ideas you have created in Scapple while writing in Scrivener a really good approach is to generate a PDF file and bring that into Scrivener as follows 1 In Scapple go to File Export PDF 3E and save the PDF file to disk 2 Locate the PDF file in the Finder and drag it into Scrivener s binder remember that you cannot place PDF files into Scrivener s Draft folder though Alternatively 1 Ensure that Scrivener is open and that the project you wish to import your Scapple notes into
40. 4 3 Selecting Contained Notes If you need to select all of the notes and potentially shapes within shapes within a shape Simply hold down the Option key and click anywhere within the shape Use the Edit Select Overlapping Notes 38A menu command Marquee selection can be used within a shape by holding down the Command key to temporarily disable selecting the shape itself and dragging it 4 4 BACKGROUND SHAPES 27 How To Select Just the Enclosed Notes If you want to select just the enclosed notes within a shape but not the shape perform one of the aforementioned steps to select overlapping shapes and then hold down the Command key and click in the background shape to toggle its selection state 4 4 4 Moving Shapes and Notes Together Magnetic While you could continue to use the ability to select overlapping notes to move shapes around together with the notes they enclose you might wish for a more automatic solu tion Setting a background shape to be magnetic using Notes Magnetic accomplishes this A shape can be set to magnetic whether or not any notes are currently enclosed within it The setting is a feature of the background shape not of the notes within it This means that dragging a magnetic shape beneath a group of notes and then back out again will vacuum all of the notes it came in contact with If you are familiar with digital diagramming and visual outlining software you might intuit
41. PTER 2 WHAT IS SCAPPLE Full Screen mode MULion aera re SERS type in one or deleto eboney aoe Preferences eee S ieee pae sinal ss aa PaE LX Pelee x ery oer eer changed 7 Write anywhere A nes Completoly treetorm ein ca 55 E a ae Goppon MathType Import Export Drag one note onto 9 Aaa ae A Export to PDF amp PNG an a rey PENN i avec TEE a h 250s hohia Inavitabiy Right to left support Note Styles Some way of saving presets tor styles ike we do in Sex command Use Servs find panel as a tempiato Spit amp merge beard Move Mode Alow notes to be moved using arrow keys in this mode m key Hold down z to zoom out let go again to zoom back in on the mouse positon Space bar drag seroling 100 Zoom to Selection too Atow notes to be indented Figure 2 2 Ideas scrawled in Scapple ing the Natural Way by Gabriele Rico and if you ve ever worked in any sort of office environment you ve probably been forced to endure a brainstorming session in front of a whiteboard But what s oppressive whe n your boss is manically wielding a marker pen can be liberating and productive when you are thinking about your own projects The idea behind Scapple was to take this process and incorporate it into a simple and lightweight application something no more
42. User Manual Scapple for Mac OS X emat ft Literature amp Latte October 2014 1 2 0 02 2013 2015 Literature amp Latte LTD All rights reserved Contents Contents I II 5 Getting Started About This Manual 1 1 Terms and Conventions 12 Finding Things What is Scapple Registration and Updates 3 1 I2 33 Registration Application Updates Learning the Ropes 4 1 Seapple s Main Interface pew oe amp op tonnwnce ace 4 2 NOES erraren ae es Gea ta taka Poh ee OF 4 3 CONNECTIONS 124 2064 ge gorua RE E oee waed 4 4 Background Shapes sssnsanunnnenan 4 5 Stacks ea an ao ks e P E E whey EN eo 4 6 Creating Hyperlinks to Files 66 6s eed Reference File Management Essentials 5 1 Creating a New Scapple Document 5 2 Saving a Scapple Document s s 0 556 055 5 3 Opening Existing Scapple Documents 5 4 Using Autosaved Versions of Your Scapple Boards 5 5 Moving Scapple Documents a aoaaa 5 6 Finding and Locating Scapple Documents 57 US loud ers ace a pan ey Pale ii Installation a oonan anaana ee ee eee ii o o o 12 12 13 22 25 28 31 32 33 33 34 35 35 38 38 39 CONTENTS 6 Formatting and Appearance 6 1 Changing the Appearance of aScapple Board 00000eeeeeue 62 Note and Shape Style Options 104 5iss 504 404s e000 oe daa eaas 6 3 Note Style Presets ko fsck i 4 ds don oe ete ete SRA OR ee eos 7 Naviga
43. X B MENUS AND KEYBOARD SHORTCUTS Literature amp Latte Home A handy hyperlink to our home page which provides easy access to everything else we offer on our web site Scapple Home Link to the main Scapple page where you will find useful download links for updates tutorials links to share Scapple on Twitter and Facebook and more Purchase Scapple Ready to upgrade from the demo Use this link to be taken to our online store We accept most common forms of payment and you ll be sent an unlock key shortly after payment has been verified electronically This command will be removed from any purchased version of Scapple http www literatureandlatte com http www literatureandlatte com scapple php Appendix C Acknowle gements This user guide was written in Scrivener and produced with MultiMarkdown and the ETEX typesetting system Much of the Essentials part of this user guide is based on the guidance in TextEdit s Help file 103 Appendix D Legal Scapple and this manual are copyright 2013 by Literature amp Latte Ltd All rights re served Literature amp Latte are not affiliated with or endorsed by the following companies and their products or services 4 Microsoft Office Word Excel Adobe Photoshop All products above and otherwise mentioned in this text are trademarks of their re spective owners Literature amp Latte take no responsibility for any text lost through synchronis
44. able you can click iCloud in the top left corner to find an iCloud document In Scapple use the File Open Recent sub menu and then choose the docu 1 ment In the Finder locate the document and then double click it or drag and drop the file to the Scapple application icon 5 4 Using Autosaved Versions of Your Scapple Boards Mac OS X 10 7 Autosave is only available on OS X version 10 7 and above If you are running OS X 10 6 you should skip this section Scapple automatically saves versions of documents as you work on them At any time you can browse through document versions and go back to an older version You can also explicitly save a version A version is saved automatically every hour or more frequently when you re making many changes A version is also saved when you open save duplicate lock rename or revert a document 5 4 1 Browsing Restoring Duplicating and Deleting Versions 1 Hold the mouse pointer to the right of the document title at the very top of the window A small downwards pointing arrow will appear on the right You may The number of recent documents displayed is configurable via the General System Preferences pane on your Mac CHAPTER 5 FILE MANAGEMENT ESSENTIALS Bs Format Window Help ScappleSample scap Edited v Rename Move To Duplicate Lock Last Opened Browse Al Versions Figure 5 1 The document version management menu
45. ation As with all synchronisation processes you should ensure you back up regularly and double check that the right documents are being synchronised Visit our web site for a copy of the licence agreement By using this software you are agreeing to be bound by the terms of this licence http www literatureandlatte com licence php 104
46. cessed in two different fashions If you are using a mouse that has more than one button click with the right mouse button or the left button if using a left handed mouse Additionally most of the Apple branded trackpads and mice have the ability to program surface areas of the device to access the contextual menu If you do not have a mouse or trackpad that is capable of supporting more than one type of click then holding down the Control key and clicking will always work 4 CHAPTER 1 ABOUT THIS MANUAL 1 2 Finding Things Since this PDF has been birthed within the age of digital documentation and has yet to make its way to print form a proper index has never been compiled for it Despite this in practice you should have little difficulty in locating the topic you are interested in Modern PDF reader software features excellent searching capabilities most things can be discovered merely by searching for the proper names of things as labelled in menus buttons or dialogue boxes in the PDF Alternatively the appendices have been designed as a sort of topical index If you have a question about a particular menu command for instance you can find it in the appendix Menus and Keyboard Shortcuts Appendix B Often if the feature merits it there will be a cross reference to a more thorough description of the feature earlier in the text When all else fails a detailed table of contents has been provided at the beginning of the documen
47. ckground shapes can become magnetic which means that overlap ping notes will stick to them when they are moved 26 CHAPTER 4 LEARNING THE ROPES They always occupy the bottom layer beneath all notes Background shapes can be brought forward and backward amongst themselves but they can never overlap a note A shape considers a note or shape to belong to it if any part of the item overlaps said shape This impacts Edit Select Overlapping Notes what gets moved or copied with the shape when it is Magnetic subsection 4 4 4 and when using export formats that support nesting 4 4 1 Creating Background Shapes There are two ways to create shapes You may already have a collection of ideas you wish to draw a circle around 1 Select the notes you wish to enclose 2 Use the Notes New Background Shape Around Selection menu command The new shape will be sized to fully enclose all of the selected notes Sometimes you need to create a topic that you intend to fill with new ideas 1 With nothing selected use the Notes New Background Shape menu command 2 A new shape will be created in the middle of the current view which may be be neath other notes It can now be moved to a free spot if desired 4 4 2 Selecting Shapes Shapes can be selected in the same manner as notes subsection 4 2 2 You can click anywhere in the middle of a shape to select it There is no need to click precisely on the edge 4
48. cted notes other notes that these selected notes may be connected to will not be affected by this command When only a single note is selected then this command will destroy all connections between it and other notes 4 3 3 Changing Connection Types To change an existing connection between two notes from a dotted line to an arrow or vice versa 1 Drag one note over the top of another note to which it is currently connected notice that when you do so the cursor changes to the curled arrow and the note beneath the cursor becomes darker to indicate that the drop operation will affect the connected status 2 Holding down the Option key release the mouse button to drop the dragged note onto the other If the connection between the notes was previously a dotted line it will now be an arrow pointing from the dragged note to the note onto which you dropped it if the connection between the notes was formerly an arrow if there is no arrow at the other end of the line it will now be a dotted line or if it was previously a line with arrows pointing in both directions it will now only have an arrow pointing in one direction Alternatively select the notes you wish to affect and choose Notes Connect With Ar row lt 38 or Notes Remove Arrows 38 The Connect With Arrow command will only make arrow connections from the first note selected to subsequently connected ar rows it will not make arrow connections between every si
49. cuments in the iCloud pane Select New Document at the bottom of the iCloud pane to create a new document on iCloud Chapter 6 Formatting and Appearance Scapple is designed to focus on getting ideas down quickly so it deliberately avoids pro viding too many distracting bells and whistles that could turn a planning and thinking session into a making it look pretty session That said you can change the background colour default text colour and font of your Scapple boards and yorrcan_annhv a number of sty That said you can change the notes from ct background colour default text appearance colour and font of your Scapple and italic to boards and yg and fill sad number of s y That said you can change the notes from cf background colour default text appearance colour and font of your Scapple and italic to d boards ande and fill coloug Number of s notes from appearance Figure 6 1 Just a few of the possibilities available for styling notes That said you can change the background colour default text colour and font of your Scapple boards and you can apply a number of style options to individual notes from changing the font appearance such as applying bold and italic to giving notes borders and fill colours 41 42 CHAPTER 6 FORMATTING AND APPEARANCE Finding These Instructions Confusing This section of the guide has been written under the assu
50. cursor where you would like to split it and use the Notes Split 38K option This is a great way of quickly bringing in text from other open applications Getting work out of Scapple using copy and paste 1 In Scapple select the notes you wish to take to another program 2 Hit sC or go to Edit Copy or use Copy in the contextual menu 3 Open the other program and paste at the location you would like the copied notes to appear in most Mac programs the Paste option appears in the Edit menu and has the keyboard shortcut 3V The text of the notes will be pasted with an empty line between each note This will work in any program that can read either plain or rich text from the OS X pasteboard including Scrivener Microsoft Word Pages Mail TextEdit and most other applications that can edit text If only a single image note is copied it can also be pasted into image programs such as Preview 9 3 PRINTING SCAPPLE BOARDS 69 9 3 Printing Scapple Boards To print your Scapple document select File Print This will bring up OS X s standard print panel Here along with the usual options such as the number of copies that should be printed and which printer to use you will find several Scapple specific options that allow you to determine how your document should be printed If you don t see any options be sure to click on the Show Details button Fig ure 9 1 This will expand the print panel so tha
51. cuts already defined within it To avoid conflicts using shortcuts that use unusual modifier combinations is best Control by itself is never used and Control with Shift is also very rarely used by Mac programs Chapter 7 Navigation There are several convenient ways of getting around in a Scapple document which will become more useful once the board grows to be larger than your screen can comfortably display QuickZoom Z QuickZoom acts a bit like View Zoom to Fit but only while the z key is held down When the key is released the zoom will snap back to its original level with the location you are pointing at with your mouse scrolled into view So long as the key is held down you can manipulate existing notes moving them around and drawing connections between them Drag Scrolling If you ve ever used an illustration or photo manipulation program you may be used to holding down the spacebar and holding down the left mouse button to drag the canvas around You ll be pleased to know that this works in Scapple as well Option Zooming If the Option key is held down the scroll wheel on your mouse or equivalent gesture on the trackpad will zoom the view in and out Arrow Key Selection When movement mode subsection 4 2 4 press M to toggle is disabled the four arrow keys on your keyboard will jump from one note to the next where possible Searching It s one of those common sense things that almost does not
52. derlining on a note do one of the following To underline whole notes select the notes you wish to affect and choose For mat gt Font Underline or hit 3U Alternatively select the notes you wish to affect and click the U button under Text Style in the Note Style tab of the Inspector To underline only certain ranges of text within a note first double click the note to edit it then select the text you wish to affect To remove underlining from a note repeat the above process the Underline com mand toggles underlining on and off Using Strikethrough To apply or remove strikethrough on a note do one of the following To strike through whole notes select the notes you wish to affect and choose For mat gt Font gt Strikethrough or hit Shiff36 Alternatively select the notes you wish to affect and click the struck through S button under Text Style in the Note Style tab of the Inspector To strike through only certain ranges of text within a note first double click the note to edit it then select the text you wish to affect To remove strikethrough from a note repeat the above process the Strikethrough command toggles strikethrough on and off 6 2 NOTE AND SHAPE STYLE OPTIONS 49 6 2 2 Changing the Text Size To change the text size of selected notes do one of the following Select the notes you wish to affect and choose Format Font Bigger 38
53. difficult to use than pen and paper but which confers certain advantages that only computers can provide advantages such as the following You never run out of paper because the Scapple document expands to fit as many notes as you want to create You can move notes around and make room for new ideas and connections It s easy to delete edit and resize notes You don t have to retype everything into another format when you are done 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 nor does it expect you to start with one central idea and branch everything else off that Instead you are free to write anywhere on the virtual paper Individual notes can be as long or short as you like Its freeform approach gets out of your way so that you can focus on getting all of your ideas down moving them around and discovering and making connections as you go along It s also so simple to use we hope that once you ve read the two page QuickStart Guide available from the Help menu you ll know everything you need And even if you don t read a word of the QuickStart Guide the two sentence instructions that appear when you create a new blank document should be more than sufficient to get started Double click anywhere to create a note Drag notes onto one another to make connections Chapter 3 Regis
54. e menus 56 CHAPTER 6 FORMATTING AND APPEARANCE New Note Style Name Name of New Style M Include font size and style V Include text alignment and indent M Include text color M Include background and border style _ Include size Include faded setting V include magnetic setting Cancel oK Figure 6 8 The New Note Style panel Include font size and style The font size and any characteristics such as bold under score or strikethrough will be saved in the style The font family cannot be saved because Scapple documents only use one font per document Cases where ranges of text within the note have been styled will be ignored This only applies when the whole note has been set to a format like italic This setting is ignored by shapes Include text alignment and indent Text alignment as set in the Format Alignment gt sub menu will be preserved as well as the indent level of the text See Indenting Within a Stack subsection 4 5 6 This setting is ignored by shapes Include text color The note s text colour will be saved in the style This setting is ignored by shapes Include background and border style Both the background fill and the border type including thickness colour and style will be saved into the style Include size For notes this will save the width of the note For shapes both the width and the height will be saved This is off by default Include faded setting When For
55. ed in editing mode with the phrase selected for you When the text you are searching for is located off screen Scapple will automatically scroll the board so that the match is displayed It is possible to continue incrementally searching through the document even with the Find panel closed with Edit Find Find Next 8G or in the opposite direction with Edit Find Find Previous 38G Finding Other Instances of Selected Text If you have a word or phrase you would like to search for already selected there is no need to copy it open the Find panel 60 61 and paste it into the search field Simply hit 38E to load the phrase into the Find panel silently and then 3G to locate the next instance The Find panel contains the following options Replace All Scope When using the Replace All button the available options here will determine the scope used for the replace All Notes is the default Every match will be changed to what is typed into the Replace field If Selected Notes is en abled then only those notes you have selected will be considered for replacement Find Options Disable Ignore Case if you require case sensitive searching The drop down menu below this option contains four options Contains this is the default Searches will match even partial phrases So searching for stal may return stalwart as well as stall Only the portion that matches will
56. ell checking must be used in a text editing context only Substitutions gt Mac OS X 10 7 Access to substitutions such as smart quotes and other symbols Transformations gt Mac OS X 10 7 Access to text utilities for converting text case Speech gt Access to the text to speech synthesis engine supplied by the OS Start Dictation Mac OS X 10 8 For computers capable of recording audio and making use of the OS X speech to text dictation system this can be used to speak words aloud and have them turned into editable text Special Characters 381 Loads the OS X Unicode character browser Use this to insert characters that are not found on your keyboard B 4 View Menu The View menu controls how the current Scapple board is displayed as well as whether or not the Inspector palette tied to that board is shown B 4 VIEW MENU 91 Show Hide Inspector 381 The floating Inspector palette holds useful formatting tools for both selected notes amp shapes as well as for the document itself This shortcut toggles its visibility on and off Read more about the Inspector chap ter 10 Show Hide Footer Bar 3 Toggles the visibility of the Footer Bar along the bottom of the window This will be remember for future boards as well If you turn off the footer bar in an existing board a newly created board will also have its footer bar disabled Existing boards will remember what they have been set to Page Guides
57. es Find 38F Brings up the standard Find panel This will locate text that has been typed into notes scrolling the view if necessary to locate the note it resides within Finding text within a note results in being pulled into editing mode so you can start typing or editing the text immediately 90 APPENDIX B MENUS AND KEYBOARD SHORTCUTS Find Next 38G Finds the next occurrence of the last text you searched for using the search parameters you have set up in the Find panel This can be done via the keyboard shortcut even when the Find panel is closed Find Previous 86 As above only it will seek backward in the text instead of forward Use Selection for Find 38E Use the currently selected text or the entire con tents of the selected note as your search term You could then immediately use Find Next Previous or load the Find panel and refine the search parame ters or supply a replacement text Jump to Selection J Scrolls the view so that the currently selected text is posi tioned in the middle of the window or as close as possible to it Useful if you want to quickly check another area of the board and then passively return to where you were without typing or removing the selection Spelling and Grammar Accesses the standard Mac OS X spell check and grammar system for supported languages The contents of this menu are the same as can be seen in any standard Mac program such as TextEdit or Scrivener Sp
58. es this may mean that not all of the style s instructions will apply to the selection For example if a style has been set to make shapes magnetic any notes in that selection will ignore that setting Likewise text formatting will be ignored by shapes This sub menu is also accessible via the right click contextual menu Delete Note Style Remove a selected style from the current document This will not impact any notes that have had that style applied to them in the past Redefine Note Style From Selection gt Applicable when only a single note or shape is selected The chosen style will be updated with the selected item s formatting characteristics As with deleting styles this will not impact notes that have had this style applied to them in the past Copy Note Style lt 38C Applicable when only a single note or shape is selected This command and its sibling command below is useful if you wish to du plicate formatting between notes or shapes and do not anticipate needing to do so repeatedly saving a note style might be a better choice in that case This command copies all applicable formatting attributes 98 APPENDIX B MENUS AND KEYBOARD SHORTCUTS Paste Note Style lt 3gV Pastes the currently stored formatting characteristics from the Format Note Style gt Copy Note Style menu command to the se lected items Import Note Styles Batch import all of the styles from another Scapple docu ment on the
59. f the selected note such as 38LeftArrow to create a new note to the left or to create a new note connected by an arrow above below or to the left or right of the selected note such as LeftArrow to create an arrow pointing to the new note to the left To add a new note between two connected notes you can double click on the con necting line Figure 4 2 This will cause the connection between the two existing notes to be removed and new connections to be created between the existing notes and the new note If you make a mistake when doing this simply use Undo to get rid of the new note and reconnect the existing notes 4 2 2 Selecting Notes To select notes do one of the following Click on a note to select a single note 4 2 NOTES 15 Existing note 1 Existing note 1 Existing note 2 Existing note 2 Figure 4 2 Double click the connection line to create a new note between them To select multiple notes click on each note in turn while holding down the Shift or Command key This also acts like a toggle and can be used to remove a note from a selection Use the arrow keys to select or travel to notes around the board Stacked notes will prefer each other for selection after that the program will do its best to select the next note in the direction of the arrow key you pressed Hold down the Shift key to add the other notes to the existing selection much like when extending a text selection in an text edi
60. g md Separator Notes in the exported file will be separated by whatever characters you enter in the Separator text field If you leave the field blank notes will be separated by an empty line Rich Text Formats File Export Rich Text rif and File Export Rich Text rtfd Export selected notes only If ticked only the notes that are currently selected in your Scapple document will be included in the generated file otherwise all notes are included Separator Notes in the exported file will be separated by whatever characters you enter in the Separator text field If you leave the field blank notes will be separated by an empty line Plain Text List File Export Plain Text list txt Export selected notes only If ticked only the notes that are currently selected in your Scapple document will be included in the generated file otherwise all notes are included Outline Markup File Export Outline Markup opml Export selected notes only If ticked only the notes that are currently selected in your Scapple document will be included in the generated file otherwise all notes are included Create notes field When this option is selected the full text of each Scapple note will be saved as an OPML note The first few characters fifty or up to the first line break whichever is the shortest will be used for the heading of the outline element When this option is de
61. g Copy and Paste to transfer the information from the email to this form and make sure that when you select the text in the email the selection range does not extend beyond the first or last letter or number in the name or serial number If all else fails quit and relaunch Scapple This can sometimes clear out pesky gremlins in registration procedures After clicking the Register button Scapple will authenticate your copy over the in ternet No personal information is relayed during this process If for some reason the internet is not available you will receive a warning message with instructions on how to activate the software manually A URL will be provided which you can use on another machine to access the activation code you ll need to complete the registration process on the original computer Scapple will continue to work in the interim you will just see a nag message each time you launch Scapple until activation has been completed success fully Once Scapple has been registered you can begin using it There will no longer be a time limit on its use and you will no longer see the trial nag box at startup 3 3 Application Updates The second time you ever run Scapple you will be presented with a panel which asks whether or not Scapple should automatically check for updates To use this feature you must have a connection to the internet If you click Check Automatically then once a day when you launch Scapple if yo
62. ge borders begin This is most useful when Scale to Fit One Page is turned off so that the document is printed across multiple pages The dotted lines then serve to show you where to cut if you want to tape together a large print out of your document Scale to Fit One Page If selected the document will be printed on a single page the scale percentage is ignored in this case If deselected the document will be printed across as many pages as are required to accommodate the current scale percentage as set in the text field next to the Orientation setting 9 3 1 Working with Printed Page Guides When working for print as your output you may frequently have need for a display which shows you where one sheet of paper will end and another will begin The View Page Guides menu command will toggle the visibility of this grid making it easy to avoid page breaks while working The page grid will be drawn in accordance with the document s print settings estab lished in File Page Setup It should be noted that the non printable area of a page will not be depicted by the grid This can mean that notes will appear further from the edge of the paper than they might from the grid line 9 4 Transferring Notes Between Scapple Boards Transferring notes between different Scapple documents is easy you can either copy and paste them or drag them across 9 4 1 Using Copy and Paste to Transfer Notes Between Scapple Documents 1 Select the n
63. graph paper or wood panelling follow these instructions to apply the texture to your board 1 Open the Document tab of the Inspector 2 Click the Use Texture button below the colour selection tool 6 1 CHANGING THE APPEARANCE OF A SCAPPLE BOARD 43 oo Inspector Note Style f a Background Color Use Default Choose Texture Text Appearance Default Color i ai Clear Font Helvetica A Writing Direction Left to Right Set As Defaults Figure 6 2 The Document tab of the Inspector 3 Use the file browser to locate and select a suitable background texture A background texture will override any chosen colour for the board a preview of the texture will be shown in the colour well to signify this To remove the texture simply click the Use Default button or choose a colour with the picker As with a default background colour this will only change the current Scapple board Choosing a Good Background Texture Not every graphic file will make a good texture The best files are small and designed to be tiled so that when they are repeated over and over no visible breaks or seams can be detected unless that is intentional such as with a chess board Larger graphics may be used but understand that this will both increase the size of the document as well as how much computer memory it must take up to display the board Large graphics may slow down Scap
64. hrough it in the popover that appears Notes and shapes can have a default background fill supplied To set the application default use the New Notes or New Shapes preference tabs Appendix A 54 CHAPTER 6 FORMATTING AND APPEARANCE 6 2 6 Fading Notes Individual notes and shapes can be faded to reduce their visual intensity on the board This is accomplished by blending the text and shape of the note into the background As shown Figure 6 7 a connections among faded notes will follow suit while b connections that join up with any fully visible note will remain clearly visible Formatting options should be n available in menus too lit amp 2 it Not an annoying find bar I merge X Move Mode d double click uld create a Allow notes to be moved nnected note using arrow keys in this mode Other shortcuts for rows etc a m key d lines Figure 6 7 The notes in the middle have been faded When background shapes are faded all overlapping items will appear faded as well making it easy to block out entire groups This will only impact items within shapes so long as they remain there If they are dragged off of the shape they will immediately return to full visibility To toggle whether the selected notes or shapes are faded use Notes Fade or S8F Alternatively tick the Faded checkbox in the Note Style inspector pane 6 3 Note Style Presets Style pre
65. ically 5 2 Saving a Scapple Document On OS X 10 7 and above Scapple automatically saves your documents continuously as you work on them so you don t explicitly need to save your changes unless you want to name or rename a document It is still always a good idea to save manually from time to time though and you will also want to use Save to specify the location on your hard disk you want to keep the file Skip to Using Autosaved Versions of Your Scapple Boards section 5 4 to read more about it 5 2 1 Save and Name a New Document 1 In Scapple choose File Save 2 Name the document select a location and then click the Save button 5 2 2 Save and Rename a Copy of a Document On OS X 10 7 and above 1 In Scapple choose File Duplicate 2 Choose File Save 5 3 OPENING EXISTING SCAPPLE DOCUMENTS 35 3 Name the document select a location then click the Save button On OS X 10 6 1 In Scapple choose File Save As 2 Name the document select a location then click Save 5 3 Opening Existing Scapple Documents Scapple can only open files created with Scapple You can recognise a Scapple file by its extension Scapple files end with the extension scap or by its Kind Scapple Map To open an existing document do one of the following In Scapple choose File Open find and select the document and then click the Open button Mac App Store Version If iCloud is avail
66. ich will offer to install Scapple to the Applications directory for you This can be dismissed if you have intentionally installed it to a non standard location 3 2 REGISTRATION 9 3 2 Registration You can try out all of the features of Scapple for 30 non consecutive days without having to pay or register During that period Scapple will be fully functional After 30 days of use you will no longer be able to access Scapple unless you register 3 2 1 Purchasing Scapple During the trial period whenever you launch Scapple you will be reminded of how many trial days you have left and given the option of buying and registering Clicking on the Buy Online button will take you to the Literature amp Latte online store where you can purchase a licence for Scapple You can also visit the online store at any time by selecting Purchase Scapple from the Help menu When you buy a licence you will be emailed your unique serial number which will have the following format SCAPPLEXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX Make sure you hold on to this serial number along with the exact name under which you registered Scapple the Serial Number Name as you will need both to register Scapple again in the future Remember that you may need to re register at a later date for instance when installing Scapple on a new system or re installing after wiping your hard drive for some reason so it is important to store this information safely
67. ingle font face The font size can also be increased or decreased using the 38 and 38 keyboard shortcuts or the Format Font sub menu Text Color Determines the text colour of selected notes The text colour can also be changed via the Format Colors sub menu The text colour used by notes that do not have a colour set explicitly can be set via the Document pane of the In spector Thus for instance if you want a blue document background with white 74 10 1 NOTE STYLE 75 oo Inspector EEEE vocen Text Style Bebop Med BS Note Body Font Size C 12 pt Alignment Z Text Color L r Fill Color L v _ Faded Borders Border Color MEMME Thickness No Border Style Rounded _ Shadow Figure 10 1 The Note Style tab of the Inspector text for all notes it would be most efficient to set this via the Document pane of the Inspector rather than by using Text Color in the Note Style pane which is better for applying a different colour to the standard note text colour Alignment Determines the text alignment of selected notes left centred right or jus tified These options are also available via the Format Alignment gt sub menu The default alignment for new notes can be set via the Preferences Fill Color Determines the fill colour of selected notes The fill colour can also be changed via the Format Colors sub menu The default fill co
68. is depressed However it is listed here as it deserves mention with these other features QuickZoom will act a bit like View Zoom to Fit but only while the shortcut key is held down When the key is released the zoom will snap back to its original level with the location you are pointing at with your mouse scrolled into view So long as the key is held down you can manipulate existing notes moving them around and drawing connections between them B 5 Notes Menu Provides commands for creating manipulating and organising notes and shapes within the active board or the current selection New Stacked Note Return When no notes are selected this will be labelled New Note and it will create a note roughly in the middle of the current view Ifa shape is selected it will act likewise but the new note will be placed overlapping the shape When a note is selected this command will create a new stacked note beneath the selected one In cases where the selected note is somewhere in the middle of an existing stack room will be made for the new note after it and before the one following it Read Creating Notes subsection 4 2 1 for more information on how to make new notes and Stacks section 4 5 New Background Shape Around Selection When nothing is selected this com mand will create a new shape roughly in the middle of the view If anything is selected including other shapes the shape will be pre sized to fit around
69. ively consider background shapes to be a form of containment that the notes within the shape are somehow inside the shape While true to a very minimal extent it is better to think of the notes as being on the shape The shape does not own the notes that overlap it for indeed a note with a fuzzy concept might overlap more than one shape Dragging a magnetic shape with the Options key held down will create a duplicate of that shape and any items overlapping it To toggle whether a background shape is magnetic 1 Select the shape s you wish to set to toggle magnetism on 2 Use the Notes Magnetic 8M menu command If any of the shapes are already magnetic they will remain so If all of the selected shapes are in the same state then they will be toggled on or off together Using Shapes as Handles Magnetic background shapes will grab on to any overlap ping notes and as such they do not necessarily need to fully enclose a note to drag it around Shapes on the other hand do need to be fully enclosed to be dragged along with the larger shape 28 CHAPTER 4 LEARNING THE ROPES Space bar drag scrolling too Split amp merge QuickZoom Hold down z to zoom out let go again to zoom back in on the mouse position EEN could create a connected note Space bar drag scrolling too Other shortcuts for B arrows etc alee
70. ks will shift notes to make space for new notes or when an edited note wraps to a new line Figure 4 7 A Stack of notes with a background fill to demonstrate placement Stacks are useful for maintaining a list of related ideas that don t belong in a single note When notes aren t stacked if you make edits to a note so that it becomes longer it may begin to overlap notes below it making it necessary to move things around after you have finished editing By stacking notes you avoid this problem as notes in the stack will move up or down as necessary to avoid any overlap or empty spaces Additionally new notes can be created in the middle of the stack or removed 4 5 1 Creating a Stack To create a stack from existing notes 1 Select the notes you wish to arrange into a stack The first note you select will not move and subsequent notes will be placed under the first note in order of distance from the first selected note 2 Choose Notes Stack 38 This command is also available from the contextual menu You may optionally at this point wish to use the Notes Make Same Width com mand to tidy up the stack 4 5 2 Creating a New Note in a Stack To create a new note in a stack as well as to create a new stack from scratch 1 Select the note in the stack underneath which you wish to create the new note 30 CHAPTER 4 LEARNING THE ROPES 2 Choose Notes New Stacked Note Return The new note will be c
71. l be added type in the file protocol file with no spaces after it 4 Drag and drop the file or folder you wish to link to into the text box The full path will be printed in as part of the URL 5 Click the OK button Now you can click the link to load the item in its native program Links to the Web use the http protocol and this is why they all start with the prefix http Another protocol exists which lets you address files on your computer using a full path to that file Part II Reference Chapter 5 File Management Essentials This is the part where we risk trying teach your grandmother to suck eggs if you know your way around a Mac you can safely skip this section as it just covers how to create open and save Scapple documents or Scapple boards If you re familiar with creating opening saving and managing files in other applications such as TextEdit you already know how to do all of this as Scapple works the same 5 1 Creating a New Scapple Document Usually you will want to start with a blank Scapple board when embarking on a new project but sometimes you might want to start your work based on a copy of an existing one 5 1 1 Starting a New Blank Document 1 In Scapple choose File New 38N 2 A new window containing a blank canvas will appear Double click anywhere on the canvas to start adding notes 3 When you re done choose File Save 38S 5 1
72. l record incremental changes by the hour Duplicate Save As 385 On 10 7 this will be labelled as Duplicate It will create a new copy of the document in a new window which can then be saved to a new file On 10 8 holding down the Option key will alternate this command to Save As which will work in the traditional fashion On 10 6 Save As follows the traditional mechanism for automatically creating a new copy of the document and saving the changes to it The original document will not recetve any of the unsaved changed at that point Moving forward you will be working in the new document allowing you to leave a trail of revisions behind you Rename Mac OS X 10 7 Allows you to rename the document without closing it changing the name in Finder and then re opening it Move To Mac OS X 10 7 A convenience feature to move the document to a new location without closing it moving it in Finder and then re opening it from the new location Revert To Mac OS X 10 7 When the word Edited appears after the name of the document in the title bar this menu will display the last saved version in a sub menu Alternatively you can select File Revert To Browse All Versions to bring up the Mac s autosave version interface Export This sub menu provides a number of different formats that you can use to export your ideas into a format that is more suitable for working in other progra
73. lour for new notes can be set via the Preferences Faded Determines whether or not the selected notes should be semi transparent Also available in the Format menu The exact level of transparency can be set via the Preferences Border Color Determines the border colour of selected notes The border colour can also be changed via the Format Colors sub menu The default border colour for new notes can be set via the Preferences 76 CHAPTER 10 THE INSPECTOR Border Thickness Determines how thick the borders of selected notes are The border thickness can also be changed via the Format Border sub menu The default border thickness for new notes can be set via the Preferences Border Style Determines the style of border used by the selected notes round square jagged or cloud The border style can also be set via the For mat Border gt sub menu The default border style for new notes can be set via the Preferences Shadow Determines whether a shadow should be drawn around selected notes This can also be set via the Format menu Whether or not new notes have a shadow can be set via the Preferences Magnetic Only available for background shapes Determines whether or not selected background shapes are magnetic If a background shape is magnetic then when it is moved any notes that overlap it are also moved If it is not magnetic then when it is moved overlapping notes remain where
74. m and the best way you ll find for doing that is in the Help QuickStart Guide menu command This brief two page cheat sheet has everything you need to know to get started and become proficient at using Scapple For those hopefully rare occasions when a more detailed look into how the program works is required this manual should suffice This manual has been written using Scrivener and is available from the Help menu under Scapple Manual You should also find two copies which have been specially for matted to be printed on either US Letter or A4 standard printer paper from our website Annotating the PDF If you wish to make notes and annotate the PDF using soft ware such as Adobe Reader it is recommended you download a separate copy or locate the PDF in the Scapple installation and drag a copy out for your own personal use When Scapple updates it will very likely overwrite the existing PDF in the installation often with revisions to the text which will destroy any of your notes http www literatureandlatte com scrivener php http www literatureandlatte com support php 2 1 1 TERMS AND CONVENTIONS 3 1 1 Terms and Conventions Whenever the documentation refers to an action that you must take the visible name for that action will be formatted like so Button labels menu items and keyboard shortcuts will all be displayed in this fashion Menus will be displayed in a hierarchy using the
75. mat Fade has been applied to the selection it will be saved This is off by default 6 3 NOTE STYLE PRESETS 57 Include magnetic setting When Notes Magnetic has been set for a shape it will be saved into the style This setting is ignored by notes 6 3 4 Updating and Renaming Styles Changing the formatting stored in the style as well as its name are both done in the same way 1 Select a note that represents what you would like the style to be changed to making a new temporary note if necessary Alternatively if you just wish to rename the style you should select a note that has identical formatting again making a temporary note and applying the style first if necessary 2 Use the Format Note Style Redefine Notes Style from Selection menu com mand 3 The same panel used to create new styles will be presented Figure 6 8 If all you wish to do is rename the style type in the new name and click the OK button You can also modify the scope of what the style changes if you wish 6 3 5 Importing Styles Styles can be imported from existing Scapple documents By default doing so will not update or overwrite any of the existing styles in your document even if they share the same name If two styles share a name they will generate duplicate entries in the menu See the prior section for renaming styles To import styles from another existing Scapple document 1 In the document you wish to import the styles
76. mption that you already know the basics as covered in Learning the Ropes chapter 4 such as selecting notes making new ones and what the differences are between connected notes stacks and background shapes If you haven t already done so you should go through that chapter It is brief and we ll be here waiting for you when you get back 6 1 Changing the Appearance of a Scapple Board By default new Scapple boards use a beige vellum coloured background with black text and connectors Notes will use the Helvetica font and the writing direction runs from left to right All of this can be changed via The Inspector chapter 10 For all of the instructions in this section you will want to open the Inspector to the Document tab 1 Open the Inspector by choosing View Show Inspector 1 2 Select the Document tab in the Inspector 6 1 1 Changing the Background Colour To change the background colour of a Scapple board 1 Open the Document tab of the Inspector as described previously 2 Click on the colour well in the Background Color section to change the back ground colour of the Scapple board Note that this will only affect the current Scapple document each Scapple board can use a different background colour 3 To reset the background colour to the default beige click on Use Default 6 1 2 Using a Background Texture If you have a background texture you would like to use such as
77. ms or as a graphic file rendering of the map On account of Scapple s freeform design B 3 EDIT MENU 87 the order in which notes appear must at times be guessed at There is no internal order or hierarchy to make use of That said clusters of notes connected together and notes overlapping a background shape together will prefer to stick together as well as stacked notes Read more about the available formats in Getting Work Out of Scapple sec tion 9 2 Prevent Editing Toggles a lock on the board so that it can no longer be changed Page Setup lt 38P Set up the paper size and page settings for printing to either PDF files or to paper using a printer This makes no impact on the size of the board itself merely how the board will be chopped up into paper sized pieces Print P Send the Scapple board to your printer you can optionally save as a PDF as well using the standard Print dialogue Maps that are larger than a single sheet of paper can either be scaled to fit or automatically sliced into paper sized chunks so that they can be taped together Read more about Printing Scapple Boards sec tion 9 3 B 3 Edit Menu The Edit menu concerns itself primarily with the manipulation of text but also con tains commands for passively working with notes and shapes e g selecting notes or finding them For active manipulation of these the Notes menu is a better bet sec tion B 5 Undo amp Redo
78. n 38 CHAPTER 5 FILE MANAGEMENT ESSENTIALS Hold the mouse pointer to the right of the document title at the top of the window so that the downwards pointing arrow appears Click on the arrow to bring down the Versions menu Figure 5 2 Choose Last Saved Previous Save or Last Opened 5 5 Moving Scapple Documents Scapple documents are saved as regular files to your hard disk The easiest way of moving them to new locations is to use the Finder to copy cut paste or drag and drop your files If you are running OS X 10 8 and above you can also move documents using the title bar menu as follows 1 Hold the mouse pointer to the right of the document title at the top of the window so that the arrow appears 2 Click on the arrow to bring up the menu 3 To move the document elsewhere on your hard drive select Move To choose a location and then click Move Choose Other from the bottom of the list of locations to open the full Save panel Mac App Store Version If you purchased Scapple from the Mac App Store you also have the option of choosing Move to iCloud from this menu See Using iCloud section 5 7 for more information Circumventing File Management Care should be taken when using the Rename and Move To commands from within Scapple if the files are stored within some form of container like a database or a Scrivener project In most cases the position
79. n any direction from the initial selection When the initial note is already in a stack the other selected notes will be inserted into the stack beneath that note moving existing stacked notes down to make space for them B 5 NOTES MENU 95 Auto Fit When used on a note the width of the note will be resized to fit the amount of text in the note so that no lines within it are wrapped When used on a background shape the shape will be resized to fit around any overlapping notes and or shapes Align Provides tools for tidying up the placement of notes amongst the selection The first group will move all notes to match the indicated edge of the note selected first Left Edges Right Edges lt Top Edges lt Bottom Edges The second group will align notes by the centre of the first selected note respec tive to the axis chosen Horizontal Centers draws an imaginary line horizontally through the note or shape The items will be moved vertically until their respective lines are all matching Vertical Centers likewise although with the imaginary line drawn vertically through the note or shape Center in Background Shape Applicable only to a single selected note that is overlapping a shape The note will be centred both vertically and horizontally within the shape Distribute gt Distribute considers the total width or height of the selection and will move all of the notes in between the two extreme end notes s
80. ngle note 4 4 BACKGROUND SHAPES 25 4 3 4 Moving Connected Notes When two notes are connected you can move them both together simply by clicking and dragging the connecting line between them See Moving Notes subsection 4 2 4 for more information about moving notes around 4 4 Background Shapes If you re like me sometimes you want to draw a big circle around a group of ideas It s an easy way of associating a group of concepts and treating them for some purposes as a single entity In Scapple Background Shapes accomplish this form of thinking without adding a lot of complexity By and large a background shape acts like a note it can be dragged around and selected in the same way and can have many of the same styles applied available in menus too J X Not an annoying f merge a Move N wae r ate a uickZoom Allow not pd note using arr Hold down z to zoom out let go mode shortcuts for again to zoom back in on the tc mouse position Zoom to Selection too Space bar drag scrolling too Figure 4 5 A background shape indicated by the red arrow encloses four notes There are a few important differences that set shapes apart from notes They cannot ever hold text by themselves That is what notes are for In addition to dragging their left and right sides they can be resized by the top and bottom or in two directions along their four corners Optionally ba
81. o that the relative space between them is equal Distribution only works on a single axis Notes will not be moved vertically when horizontal distribution is used and vice versa In some cases if the notes all together have more width than the sum would provide for in the total width of the selection overlapping can occur Horizontally Distributes the notes evenly along the horizontal axis No notes will be displaced up or down on the board Vertically Distributes notes evenly along the vertical axis No notes will be dis placed left or right on the board 96 APPENDIX B MENUS AND KEYBOARD SHORTCUTS Before Figure B 3 The results of using horizontal distribution on four notes Make Same Width Adjusts the width of all notes and or shapes in the selection so that they all have the same width as the first note selected This will be done without moving the notes on the board Make Same Height Adjusts the height of shapes and images not notes which cannot be manually resized to be taller than the amount of text they contain in the same fashion as resizing them by width above Split 38K Applicable only when editing text within a note The note will be split at the point of the cursor and stacked beneath the current note If text is selected only the selected text will be split into a new note removing it from the original Merge Operates on two or more notes in a selection They will be merged together in
82. ommon commands can be accessed from the right click contextual menu Apply a note style preset using the Format Note Style Apply Note Style sub menu also available in the contextual menu See Also The Inspector chapter 10 Formatting and Appearance chapter 6 Note Style Presets section 6 3 4 2 10 Aligning Notes Notes can be aligned along several different edges or axes 1 Select the notes you wish to align The first note you select will not be moved other selected notes will be moved to align with the note that was selected first 2 Go to the Notes Align sub menu and then choose from Left Edges Right Edges Top Edges or Bottom Edges 3 Aligning by Horizontal Centers will cause the notes to end up in a column aligned by their horizontal width Aligning by Vertical Centers will result in a row with their vertical middles used to determine the placements If you want to arrange notes into a single column it is often more useful to stack them rather than align them section 4 5 22 CHAPTER 4 LEARNING THE ROPES 4 2 11 Arranging Overlapping Notes You will most likely wish to avoid having notes arranged on top of each other as this will often result in text being obscured and thus make things difficult to read However there may be occasions where you have a note partially overlapping another and you wish to arrange their front to back order so that the
83. oning at full scale With the Keyboard Sometimes small adjustments are easier to make with the arrow keys on the keyboard especially if you wish to make sure that the note does not stray from its original horizon tal or vertical positioning or axis By default the arrow keys will select notes around 18 CHAPTER 4 LEARNING THE ROPES the currently selected note but if you tap the M shortcut Movement Mode will be en abled Figure 4 4 Now the arrow keys will push the selected notes in the direction of that arrow by a small amount If you would like to increase how far it moves with each keypress hold down the Shift key in combination with the arrow keys You can hold down the arrow key instead of tapping to move longer distances Notes can be moved with the keyboard too Gi Figure 4 4 Movement mode is indicated by this icon in the lower left corner of the status bar 4 2 5 Copying Notes To copy notes select the notes you wish to copy and then do one of the following Drag the notes to location you wish the copies to appear and hold down the Option key while releasing the mouse button When the Option key is held down you will notice that the mouse pointer will have a icon beside it which indicates that the note will be copied rather than moved Select Edit Copy 38C then select Edit Paste 38V When you select Paste from the Edit menu or use the shortcut the note will be pasted in
84. op of the latest updates Daily is generally good enough but if updating frequently is disruptive to your work habits you can set this to check by week or month A 2 New Notes The New Notes pane determines the default appearance of newly created notes After notes have been created their appearance can be edited using the Inspector or Format menu 860 0 Preferences General New Shapes Default text Default font size Default width Default alignment U Fill Color Border Border Style Border Color _ Shadow New Note No Border sl Cloud a Default document appearance options can be set using the Set As Default button in the Document pane of the Inspector Figure A 2 The New Notes tab Default text Determines the placeholder text that will appear in newly created notes This can be left empty if you do not wish new notes to contain placeholder text Default font size Determines the default font size for new notes The font itself is set in the Document pane of the Inspector 82 APPENDIX A PREFERENCES Default width Determines the width of new notes Notes can be resized after they are created and if Auto size notes is ticked in the General Preferences tab new notes may automatically be shrunk to fit Default alignment Determines the default text alignment of new notes The alignment of individual notes can be changed via the Inspector
85. or Format menu after they are created Fill Color Determines the default fill colour for new notes The fill colour of individual notes can be changed via the Inspector or Format menu after they are created Border Determines the default border thickness for new notes The border of individ ual notes can be changed via the Inspector or Format menu after they are created Border Style Determines the default border style for new notes The border style of individual notes can be changed via the Inspector or Format menu after they are created Border Color Determines the default border colour for new notes The border colour of individual notes can be changed via the Inspector or Format menu after they are created Shadow Determines whether new notes have a shadow or not This setting can be changed for individual notes via the Inspector or Format menu after they have been created A 3 New Shapes The New Shapes pane determines the default appearance of newly created background shapes After background shapes have been created their appearance can be edited using the Inspector or Format menu Fill Color Determines the default fill colour for new background shapes The fill colour of individual background shapes can be changed via the Inspector or Format menu after they are created Border Determines the default border width for new background shapes The border of individual background shapes can be changed via the In
86. otes If selected when the main Scapple view has the focus i e when you are not editing a note hitting Return will create a new note exactly as hitting Return does If this is deselected then hitting Return will begin editing the currently selected note Use selected note style for new notes When ticked if notes are selected highlighted with a selection border when you create a new note the new note will look the 79 80 APPENDIX A PREFERENCES Preferences New Notes New Shapes _ Return ends editing _ Return creates new notes A Use selected note style for new notes KA Auto size notes Faded Transparency jm Default note styles for new documents Set From Current Document L Reset to Defaults V Automatically check for updates Daily l Default document appearance options can be set using the Set As Default button in the Document pane of the Inspector Figure A 1 The General tab same as the first selected note in the selection For instance if you select a note that has a yellow background and a jagged border then create a new note the new note will likewise have a yellow background and a jagged border If this option is deselected new notes always use the default appearance options as set in the New Notes pane of the Preferences Auto size notes If ticked when you finish editing a note if the note is composed of one or more lines that are shorter than the defa
87. otes and shapes the selected items will have their border colours changed as colours are selected from the standard system colour palette If items do not already have a border applied the default one pixel border will be added to the note automatically This is thus a convenient way to kill two birds with one stone if you wish to apply a custom border colour to a note that does not already have a border 100 APPENDIX B MENUS AND KEYBOARD SHORTCUTS Clear Border Color Removes any custom colour settings for the border colour on selected notes or shapes Borders gt Borders can be applied to any note and shapes by default will have a one pixel black border Use this sub menu to adjust the appearance and width of bor ders To remove a border select No Border from the Format Borders gt sub menu Read more about Applying Borders to Notes amp Shapes subsection 6 2 4 The contents of this sub menu can also be accessed from the right click contextual menu Border widths Choose between five different border widths or remove the bor der by selected No Border Border styles The second half of this sub menu provides four different styles of border that you can choose from rounded is the default Writing Direction gt Users who write ina language that runs from right to left instead of from left to right can change this for the document here This will also impact the auto resize behaviour of notes favouring the left
88. otes connected in a circle another seven notes forming another circle nearby with two of the notes from each circle con nected to one another Only a human could take these notes and lay them out in a mean ingful linear order basing the new arrangement on the content of the notes something Scapple as an uncomprehending agglomeration of zeroes and ones has no chance of achieving Scapple makes its educated guess as follows It goes through the notes from left to right top to bottom or right to left if that is the writing direction of the document Ifa group of notes are stacked they will be exported in stack order Whenever it comes to a note that is connected to another note it walks through all of the connections lt Iftwo or more notes are connected to a note it starts with the one that is nearest Ifa note is connected to more than one other note it is only included the first time it is encountered in this traversal process Once Scapple finds no more connections in the current cluster it continues scan ning across the document In text file formats that support hierarchy such as OPML background shapes be come enclosing groups in other text formats they are ignored For simple arrangements of notes this traversal process can work very well For more complicated arrangements however even moderately complicated ones you may find that the order of the notes in the exported text file is not at all
89. otes you wish to transfer to another Scapple document 2 Select Edit Copy or hit 8C Alternatively if you wish to remove them from the original document use Edit Cut or 3X 3 Open the other Scapple document 4 Right click on the location you would like the notes to appear and select Paste from the contextual menu Alternatively use Edit Paste or just hit V to have the notes pasted somewhere central in the viewed area 9 5 INTEGRATION WITH SCRIVENER 71 9 4 2 Dragging Notes Between Scapple Documents 1 Select the notes you wish to transfer to another Scapple document 2 Ensure the other Scapple document is open alongside the original 3 Drag the selected notes from the original across to the other document releasing the mouse button at the location you wish the notes to be placed 4 If you wish to remove the notes from the original document return to that docu ment and hit the Delete key A Note on Font Sizes When transferring notes to another Scapple document all connections between the dragged notes are maintained and the notes retain all of their appearance options However if the two documents use different fonts the transferred notes may not be optimally sized since they were created using a font with different metrics and overlapping may occur Stacks can be reset by select the entire stack and using Notes Stack 38 9 5 Integration with Scrivener As you d expect given that
90. ove two connected notes together there is no need to select them both Just click the connecting line that joins them hold down the mouse button and drag When moving notes so that they will end up partially or completely outside of the board the overall size of the board may be increased to fit them For example if you select five notes and start the drag from the lower right note so that this note is the only one visible at the top left corner of the screen the other notes will push the boundary of the canvas up and to the left if necessary to make space for them As you drag closer to the edge of the view Scapple will scroll in that direction for you while you are dragging gradually increasing in speed the longer you hold down the mouse button This lets you position notes off screen from where they started Long Distance Travel Sometimes you need to move a note from one point of a large canvas to another You could zoom all the way out drag it and then zoom back in However an easier technique would be to use the QuickZoom feature chapter 7 First select the notes and then hold down the Z key Now drag them to the proper location and let go of both the Z key and the mouse button The selected notes should remain visible as QuickZoom focusses the view based on where your mouse pointer is which in this case will be where you dropped the notes Your selection will remain after doing so making it easy to fine tune the positi
91. ple and make it difficult to use 6 1 3 Changing the Default Text Colour The default text colour is used by all notes that don t explicitly have a colour assigned to them you can apply a text colour to individual notes using the Note Style tab of the Inspector to override the default colour for those notes 44 CHAPTER 6 FORMATTING AND APPEARANCE A background texture can add a nice touch to the look of your Scapple boards They can even make you feel more productive aaa wwwewewewweeTeeVvvevwvevewe Figure 6 3 A Scapple board using a leather background texture no digital sheep were harmed To change the default text colour for a Scapple board 1 Open the Document tab of the Inspector 2 Click on the Default Color colour well in the Text Appearance section and choose a colour from the colour palette that opens Note that this will only affect the current Scapple board 3 Click on Clear to reset text and connections to whatever will contrast best with the current background colour 6 1 4 Changing the Font Used by Notes To change the font used by notes in a Scapple board 1 Open the Document tab of the Inspector 2 Choose a font from the Font drop down menu Note that this will only affect the current Scapple board each Scapple board can use a different font The new font will be applied to each note in the Scapple board notes cannot use different
92. ple plain text file with each note separated by a single line break This format is the best one to choose if you wish to open the file in a spreadsheet such as Numbers or Microsoft Excel Outline Markup opml Produces a file in the Outliner Processing Markup Language format which can be opened by many outlining programs such as OmniOutliner Background shapes are exported as groups 66 CHAPTER 9 IMPORT EXPORTING amp PRINTING 9 2 2 Export Formats Scapple can export your work to files using the formats described in Available Export Formats Table 9 1 As explained in The Order of Things subsection 9 2 1 Scapple can only make an educated guess at the best way to order the notes when exporting to linear text files This means that for all formats except PDF and PNG you may need to rearrange the notes in an external editor to achieve the order you want To export to one of these formats choose the appropriate option from the File Export menu For most formats you can choose whether to export all notes or only those that are currently selected The options available for each format are detailed below Export Format Options When you choose one of the formats available in the File Export menu a Save panel appears allowing you to choose where on your hard disk the exported file should be saved Depending on the format you selected the Save panel may also contain options that allow you to customise the a
93. ppearance of the exported file or to choose what is included PDF File Export PDF 8E Draw background and use default text color If ticked the PDF document will look exactly the same as your Scapple document using the same background and text colour if deselected the PDF will not include a background colour and will thus appear white and will use black text as the default although notes that have had their text colour changed specifically will remain in that colour Draw faded notes at full opacity If ticked the Fade setting that can be applied to notes is ignored in the PDF file and all notes will appear fully opaque PNG File Export PNG There are no options available when exporting to the PNG format The PNG created will be a faithful representation of how your Scapple document looks on screen If you require a higher resolution it is better to export to PDF 9 2 GETTING WORK OUT OF SCAPPLE 67 Plain Text File Export Plain Text txt Export selected notes only If ticked only the notes that are currently selected in your Scapple document will be included in the generated file otherwise all notes are included If no extension is provided use txt If ticked the txt extension will be ap pended to the file name and even if you type a custom file extension OS X will prompt you to use txt instead Deselect this if you wish to export using a different file extension e
94. pple document will be provided so that you can easily switch between documents even if they are not currently visible Documents that have been minimised will have a diamond icon to the left of their names B 8 Helo Menu Provides access to your Mac s menu search utility as well as useful tools and links for learning Scapple or getting in touch with us The Help menu is the only menu that can be directly activated from the keyboard Tap 38 to call it up This will place the cursor in the menu title search field so you can begin searching immediately Scapple Manual A quick link to the PDF that you are likely reading The version that ships with Scapple will be kept as up to date as possible but newer revisions might also be available on the web site s support page QuickStart Guide A handy two page reference that can be used to quickly learn the software Support A hyperlink to our web site s support page Here you can download the latest copy of the PDF in US Letter or A4 or the Scrivener project used to make it find contact e mail addresses links to our forums and wiki after sales support from our vendor eSellerate and more User Forums Hyperlink to the official Literature amp Latte forums where you can meet other people around the world using Scapple share tips report bugs request tech support or have a cup of latte in our off topic section http www literatureandlatte com support php 102 APPENDI
95. reated beneath the selected note and any notes that were previously below the selected note in the stack will be moved down so that they are now beneath the new note 4 5 3 Deleting Notes in a Stack To delete notes from a stack you follow the same procedure as usual for deleting notes subsection 4 2 7 1 Select the notes you wish to delete 2 Choose Edit Delete or hit the Delete key on the keyboard Any notes below the deleted notes in the stack will be moved up so as to maintain the stack 4 5 4 Moving Notes Out of a Stack To move a note out of a stack simply drag it to a different location When moving notes out of the middle of a stack any notes below them in the stack will automatically be moved up to remove the gap it would otherwise leave behind much like when deleting a paragraph of text in a text editor 4 5 5 Moving Notes Into a Stack and Reordering Them To move an existing note into a stack simply select the note in the stack that it should appear beneath then hold down the Command key and select the note s you wish to add to the stack Use the Notes Stack menu command to insert the selected notes This trick can also be used to reorder notes within a stack First select the note the stacked notes should be moved beneath and then each note you wish to move Notes will be placed in order using their distance from the initial note so multiple notes can be gathered together beneath another in this fashion 4 5
96. rences Application settings allow you to make global changes to the way the software works Open the Preferences panel by selecting the Scapple Preference menu command The panel has three tabs General New Notes and New Shapes The General tab allows you to determine a variety of application wide behaviours while the New Notes and New Shapes tabs allow you to set up the default appearance and behaviour of new notes and background shapes Adjusting Defaults for Documents To set the default board colour text colour font and writing direction for new documents use the Set As Defaults button in the Document tab of the Inspector To avoid clutter and keep settings to a minimum these options are not duplicated Likewise a number of options in the interface are inherently carried over as defaults for newly created documents For instance when you turn spell checking on or off via the Edit Spelling and Grammar sub menu the setting you choose will be used as the default for new documents A l General Options available in the General Preferences tab are as follows Return ends editing If selected when editing a note hitting Return will cause editing to end and the focus to return to the main Scapple view If this is not selected then Return will add carriage returns to your notes and you will need to use the Esc or Enter keys to end editing Return creates new n
97. require mention but using the standard Edit Find Find F command to search for a key phrase can also be used for navigation Consider that you can create notes strictly to serve as anchors or titles around larger clusters in the board In a very large board with several such anchors if you give them all a common prefix the Find Next shortcut 8G could come in handy for quickly jumping from one cluster to the next Read more about Searching in Scapple chapter 8 59 Chapter 8 Searching in Ncapple As your Scapple documents grow larger finding text you have written will become more important especially if the board is much larger than the screen can legibly show The facility for finding text will be familiar to anyone who has used a text editor before You can use the basic Edit Find Find F panel Figure 8 1 to type in the word or phrase you are looking for step through search results and make incremental or global replacements 00 Find Find Q7 Lost ideas Next Replace Qy Previous Replace All Scope Find Options Replace e All Notes Ignore Case lace amp Find _ Selected Notes Contains Beplecertabin Replace All Figure 8 1 The standard text find panel When text is located it will briefly flash yellow to help draw the eye to it and then it will be highlighted for editing If you used the Return key to initiate the find the panel will be dismissed and you will be plac
98. rom the previous Scapple documents you have worked on This is a rotating list which means that over time older documents may fall off the list Additionally the list can at times be wiped with system or software updates If you are unsure of where a missing document has gone read Finding and Locating Scapple Documents section 5 6 The number of items listed in this sub menu is governed by OS X s global preference which can be set in the system General preference pane Appearance on Mac OS X 10 6 86 APPENDIX B MENUS AND KEYBOARD SHORTCUTS Close 38W Immediately closes the current Scapple document automatically saving when doing so With unsaved documents and on 10 6 in general you will be prompted to save each board as necessary When holding down the Option key this menu command will become Close All All open documents will be simul taneously closed though the software will continue running until you quit it Save 388 On Mac OS X 10 7 this menu command will be named Save a Ver sion This is fundamentally identical to the action that is taken on 10 8 the label has merely been simplified Read more about autosave and version features in Using Autosaved Versions of Your Scapple Boards section 5 4 On 10 6 autosave is not available and thus neither is versioning Saving the board will merely overwrite the old copy on the disk in a standard fashion Time Ma chine if set up properly may stil
99. selected the entire text of the Scapple note will be saved into the element headline This produces a more compati ble result as not all OPML readers will detect a note field as well as a headline 68 CHAPTER 9 IMPORT EXPORTING amp PRINTING field If you are unsure just leave this option deselected or experiment with which option works best with whichever outlining application you use Exporting images If you have dragged images into your Scapple document you can export them by select ing File Export Images Ticking Export selected notes only in the export panel will cause only the images that are selected in your Scapple document to be exported Otherwise all images in the document will be exported This option is unavailable if the Scapple document does not contain any images 9 2 3 Copy and Paste Along with dragging files into Scapple and using File Export to get your ideas out you can also use copy and paste to bring notes in and out Bringing work into Scapple using copy and paste 1 Select some text in another program and copy it 8C or Edit Copy in most applications 2 In Scapple right click where you want the text placed and select Paste from the contextual menu Alternatively just hit 3V or use Edit Paste and the note will appear somewhere in the top centre of the view 3 If you wish to split the imported note into several smaller notes double click on it to edit it place the
100. sets provide a simple way to store and reuse multiple appearance settings on notes and shapes When you create a new document a few useful defaults will be pro vided for you These can be deleted if you wish or changed to act in a different way There are a few important things to be aware of Styles can be best thought of as macros or format brushes They are a set of ap pearance characteristics that can be applied to selected notes or shapes and once you do so they are no longer connected to one another This may seem obvious but to some who are used to stylesheets in word processors where changing the 6 3 NOTE STYLE PRESETS 55 style itself will automatically change everything in the document assigned to it it is worth mentioning Changing a style after it has been used will never go through and change the appearance of pre existing notes It will only change how it func tions going forward Styles are document specific Each document you create will likely have its own specific formatting needs You can freely change and delete styles from this menu without fear of changing other documents If you would like to import styles from another document you ve already created a convenient tool has been provided for doing so Format Note Style Import Note Styles You can change these default styles in General Preferences Appendix A by opening a document with the styles you want to use henceforth and clicking the
101. spector or Format menu after they are created Border Style Determines the default border style for new background shapes The bor der style of individual background shapes can be changed via the Inspector or For mat menu after they are created A 3 NEW SHAPES 83 80 0 Preferences General New Notes _ Fill Color z Border L Border Style Rounded Border Color mz _ Shadow _ Magnetic Default document appearance options can be set using the Set As Default button in the Document pane of the Inspector Figure A 3 The New Shapes tab Border Color Determines the default border colour for new background shapes The border colour of individual background shapes can be changed via the Inspector or Format menu after they are created Shadow Determines whether new background shapes have a shadow or not This set ting can be changed for individual background shapes via the Inspector or Format menu after they have been created Magnetic Determines whether new background shapes are magnetic or not that is whether notes that overlap them are carried along whenever they are moved This setting can be changed for individual background shapes via the Inspector or Notes menu after they have been created Appendix B Menus and Keyboard Shortcuts This appendix will list most of the available menu commands along with their keyboard shortcuts a short description of what the command does and a cross
102. t Chapter 2 What is Scapple scapple skap l vt to work or shape roughly without smoothing to a finish The Chambers Dictionary 12 Edition Scapple is an easy to use tool for getting ideas down as quickly as possible and making connections between them It s the software equivalent of taking a large piece of paper and writing your thoughts and ideas all over it in no particular order perhaps clustering related notes and drawing lines and arrows between them as connections become appar ent reve pyr w Els k plun Exh Aad enh image U i Bart t PE Deg to TNG Seaven Ard Hot pa 5 un Price odena Hag 7 ineke ad lwe a hy feb oe r k a Pee anes you Sele j ep a rele ae Ce Miaon ler ef sl lt r Pfoh fink fee Mwd tye ote to ig zi gi i H aat le alae Je lls mene BS aa ciee H ano ad yer ee es angie Uwe Ahsa ole yee A et A wk Va bad eke Sa Oke seye Frllty po wu Mo d ay ors a Con geier A a per to 2 Z Ih a Key ae T Aade pour too Sele cha GS os Co Cannectroas e sale E Ard dag h i oi Ney 7 ayo ay Chak 2 5 axila cCavech w e be Cone han cea do dae Hove oom 1 5 utay Iun v esnek fo leekun J too yor WE Poh k pies Ad e feo Ce Ge a Figure 2 1 Ideas scrawled on paper We don t claim that there s anything new or original about this process of course there are whole books dedicated to similar planning techniques such as Writ 5 CHA
103. t Border sub menu to select from one of the four available op tions Rounded this is the default Square Jagged or Cloud This sub menu is also available from the right click contextual menu 2 Use the Style drop down menu in the Note Style tab of the Inspector to select from one of the four options listed above The default border style for notes and shapes can be changed in the application Prefer ences Appendix A 6 2 5 Applying Fill Colour to Notes amp Shapes As with text colour subsection 6 2 3 background fill can be applied to individual notes and shapes To apply a background fill first select the items you wish to affect then do one of the following Choose Format Colors Change Fill Color 4 38C This will bring up the colour palette from which you can choose the new fill colour Click on the Fill Color colour picker in the Note Style pane of the Inspector This will call up a popover with a selection of colours from which to choose or if bo you want a custom colour click on Show Colors at the bottom of the popover to bring up the full colour palette panel To clear the fill colour from notes so that they use the default do one of the following Choose Format gt Colors Clear Fill Color Click on the Fill Color colour picker in the Note Style pane of the Inspector and choose the white square with the diagonal red line t
104. t border settings a N For shapes too Pd Border Color Jima Other settings spelling on off etc k can be saved to defaults internally Thickness No Border whenever the settings are Fa SN y changed va Write anywhere Sya Roundedi 2 anme Shadow Completely freeform a Double click or hit command return Icon ideas Scalpel E isel Chisel Split amp merge Cmd double click Blackboard Drag to Scrivener N auld eraste a 56 notes Zoom Figure 4 1 The default Scapple window and features onto freeform corkboard too Reset 7 The scale slider and scale Reset button Move the slider to zoom in and out of the Scapple board and click Reset to reset the scale to the default You can also use the keyboard shortcuts 3UpArrow and gDownArrow to zoom in and out respectively or Z by itself to show the entire canvas so long as the Z key is held down 8 A background shape around two notes As with notes shapes can be styled in many ways This shape has a drop shadow fill colour square shape and a black border 9 A stack of notes Stacks are vertical groups of notes that can be easily edited and selected together as a list 4 2 Notes You can create and move notes anywhere on a Scapple board Notes can be anything a single word used as a title using a large bold font or several paragraphs of detailed description There are no limits to how you arrange them Scapple boards are
105. t the preview is displayed on the left and the printing options are shown on the right Printer A Officejet Pro 8500 A910 Presets Default Settings Copies Black amp White Two Sided lt Pages All From 1 to 1 Paper Size A4 8 27 by 11 69 inches Orientation f T gt Scale 100 _Scapple Print Header and Footer Print Background _ Print Border Guides lofl M Scale to Fit One Page PDF 7 Hide Details _ Cancel Print Figure 9 1 Standard Mac OS X print panel showing Scapple settings in the lower right On the top left yowll see all the options that you would expect to find in any program the paper size and orientation the scale to use and so on Below that if Scapple is selected in the pop up button that appears just over half way down the printing panel it should be selected by default you will see four extra options These are described below Print Header and Footer If selected a basic header and footer will be added to printed pages showing the name of the document the date and time and the page number 70 CHAPTER 9 IMPORT EXPORTING amp PRINTING Print Background If selected the background of the document is printed In general unless you want a full colour print out that includes the background colour or texture it is best to leave this deselected when printing Print Border Guides If selected a dotted line is printed to show where the pa
106. the entire selection and the menu label will read New Background Shape Around Selec tion New Connected Note gt This sub menu provides convenience commands for creating new notes pre connected to the currently selected notes These commands are di rectional and their keyboard shortcuts can be combined with the arrow keys on your keyboard in a logical fashion Read more about Connections section 4 3 When creating new notes using these commands they will by default automatically acquire the style of the initially selected note In the screenshots depicting the results of these actions this effect is not shown to clarify which note is the hub B 5 NOTES MENU 93 To create this example the centre note was styled after the new connected notes were created This behaviour can be changed in the Preferences Appendix A Basic Connections Above On Left On Right Figure B 1 New connected notes in the four directions The first group of commands create simple dashed connections to the new note Figure B 1 On Left 3 LeftArrow On Right 38 RightArrow lt Above 38UpArrow Below 3DownArrow The second group of commands will create an arrowed connection pointing to the new note Figure B 2 On Left With Arrow 438 LeftArrow On Right With Arrow 38 RightArrow Above With Arrow 3 UpArrow Below With Arrow 38 DownArrow Connect 38 gt Connects two or more selected
107. the line between what a program is and what your data is On many of these devices deleting or re installing an application can destroy your work Standard operating systems won t work that way Like all programs on your com puter Scapple saves your work into files or documents There is absolutely no connection between the software and your hard work Upgrading versions register ing your trial switching to a beta build or even deleting the application entirely will have no impact on the files you created with Scapple save that you of course will not be able to open them so long as Scapple is not installed your work will be accessible once the software is available again Chapter 4 Learning the Ropes There aren t really any difficult concepts to get your head around in Scapple the most difficult part of using Scapple should be the ideas on which you are working You organ ise those ideas using four main elements notes connections background shapes and stacks We ll look at each of those here 4 1 Scapple s Main Interface Scapple s interface has been designed to be as minimal as possible for the most part it s just you and your notes The provided screenshot of the interface Figure 4 1 has been numbered and explained below 1 The Scapple board or canvas Scapple board is the term used to describe a Scapple document all of the notes and their connections as laid out on the virtual paper
108. the opposite direction dragging the note you previously dropped onto and dropping it onto the note you previously dragged this will result in the connecting line having an arrow at either end 3 In the same fashion hold down the Option and Command keys together when dropping to create an arrow pointing from the note you dropped onto pointing back to the initial selection Alternatively select the notes you wish to connect and choose Notes Connect With Arrow X8 The arrows will point from the first note selected to subsequently selected notes see the Selecting Notes section for more information on selecting notes This command is also available from the contextual menu Notes can also be connected as they are created subsection 4 2 1 24 CHAPTER 4 LEARNING THE ROPES 4 3 2 Removing Connections You remove connections in the same way as you create them 1 Drag one note over the top of another note to which it is currently connected notice that when you do so the cursor changes to the curled arrow and the note beneath the cursor becomes darker to indicate that the drop operation will affect the connected status 2 Release the mouse button to drop the dragged note onto the other The connection between them will disappear Alternatively select all of the notes you wish to disconnect and choose Notes Disconnect 38 lt This command is also available from the contextual menu When selecting individually conne
109. the order in which notes are exported to text formats see Getting Work Out of Scapple section 9 2 4 3 CONNECTIONS 23 4 3 1 Creating Connections Between Notes Two or more notes can be connected with a dotted line 1 Drag one note over the top of another note notice that when you do so the cursor changes to a curled arrow and the note beneath the pointer becomes darker to indicate that a connection will be made when you drop 2 Release the mouse button to drop the dragged note onto the other A dotted line will now connect the two notes the notes will stay in their original positions Alternatively select the notes you wish to connect and choose Notes Connect 38 gt The note you select first will be the one they connect to This command is also available from the contextual menu If you would like to connect all of the selected notes together use Notes Connect All Two or more notes can have arrows drawn between each other 1 Drag one note over the top of another note notice that when you do so the cursor changes to the curled arrow and the note beneath the cursor becomes darker to indicate that a connection will be made when you drop 2 Hold down the Option key before you release the mouse button to drop the dragged note onto the other A line will connect the two notes with an arrow pointing from the dragged note towards the note onto which you dropped it Note that if you then Option drag and drop in
110. the resizing handle icon 3 Click and drag the mouse left or right to make all selected notes narrower or wider When multiple notes are selected you can make them all the same width by using the Notes Make Same Width menu command This will not align them use the Notes Align sub menu for that merely resize them in place Images and back ground shapes can have their height equalised as well with Notes Make Same Height 4 2 7 Deleting Notes Deleted notes are removed immediately from the board but you can always use Edit Undo if you make a mistake 1 Select the notes you wish to delete 2 Use Edit Delete or hit the Delete key on the keyboard 4 2 8 Splitting and Merging Notes Sometimes you may have long notes that you wish to split up into smaller notes or you may have a bunch of related notes that you wish to merge into one Single notes can be split into two notes 1 Double click into a note to edit it 20 CHAPTER 4 LEARNING THE ROPES 2 Place the blinking insertion point caret at the point in the text where you want to split the note you can ignore whitespace all extra spaces and carriage returns will be trimmed from both notes after splitting 3 Choose Notes Split 38K The new split note will be created stacked under neath the existing note A specific selection of text can be split off into a new note 1 Double click into the note containing the text to edit it 2 Select the
111. they are This option is also available in the Notes menu and the default setting for new background shapes can be set set via the Preferences 10 2 Document The Document tab provides options for determining the general appearance of the document and for setting the default appearance of new documents 10 2 1 Background Color Clicking on the colour well brings up the colour palette allowing you to set the back ground colour of the document The Use Default button resets the background to Scap ple s default off white Alternatively click on Choose Texture to select an image file from disk to be used as a background texture Background texture images are tiled that is repeated over and over so you should only use images with repeating patterns Images selected for use should be small to avoid performance issues we recommend nothing over 512x512 pixels but a small file size is equally important There are many great tiling textures available on the internet 10 2 2 Text Appearance Options Default Color Clicking on the colour well brings up the colour palette allowing you to set the default colour of the text in new and existing notes The colour set here will be used by all notes in the document that have not had a text colour set explicitly 10 2 DOCUMENT 77 oo Inspector Note Style f Background Color a Use Default Choose Texture Text Appearance Default Color i ai Clear
112. tion 8 Searching in Scapple 9 Import Exporting amp Printing 9i Getting Work Into Scapple 9 2 Getting Work Out of Scapple s o sis oot a ee mea i e e eea i 93 Printing Scapple Boards e seese vo ale eek ad aa oe a a ee a uNa 9 4 Transferring Notes Between Scapple Boards 2 2 2 000 e eee eeees 995 Integration with SCHVEHET bu ok kya p ed REAR isesi tanca EROS 10 The Inspector lOl DG Sle aid ade hse hee de a ote eee Wee wr dk dete ae 102 Doc ment 3 0 so cessere SSSA HD POAR WERE YS 6G 55 4S HS HESS II Appendices A Preferences A 1 General A 2 New Notes A 3 New Shapes B Menus and Keyboard Shortcuts B 1 Scapple Menu B 2 File Menu aana B 3 Edit Menu B 4 View Menu B 5 Notes Menu B 6 Format Menu B 7 Window Menu BS Help Menu C Acknowlegements D Legal iii 41 42 46 54 59 60 62 62 63 69 70 71 74 74 76 78 79 79 81 82 84 84 85 87 90 92 97 100 101 103 104 Part I Getting Started Chapter 1 About This Manual Scapple has been designed to be a very simple program to learn and use This user manual is provided to you as a complete reference of the software We hope that nobody feels the need to read this manual cover to cover to use the software Of course we d be delighted if you are inclined to do so but most people want to get down to business with a new progra
113. to use the Format Note Style Import Note Styles menu command 2 This will bring up a file chooser Locate the Scapple document you wish to import the styles from and click the Open button If you wish to completely overwrite the existing styles in the document with the imported ones then confirm the option Overwrite existing note styles with im ported styles You will be asked for confirmation of doing this after clicking the Open button 58 CHAPTER 6 FORMATTING AND APPEARANCE 6 3 6 Adding Keyboard Shortcuts to Styles For styles that you use frequently you may wish to add a keyboard shortcut to them To do this you will need to use the Mac OS X keyboard tool for doing so 1 Use the Apple menu at the top left corner of your screen and select System Preferences 2 Click on the Keyboard icon and then select the Keyboard Shortcuts tab within that pane 3 Select Application Shortcuts from the left sidebar 4 Below the right hand list click the button 5 Supply Scapple as the target application 6 In the Menu Title field type in the precise name of the preset you wish to use All punctuation and letter case must be identical For this to work the style name must be unique 7 Click into the Keyboard Shortcut field and press all of the keys and modifiers you wish to use for your shortcut Tips For Choosing Shortcuts Scapple has a lot of short
114. to the rough centre of the view when you select Paste from the contextual menu right click or ctrl click if your mouse or trackpad is not configured to use two buttons the note will be pasted at the point where you right clicked Scapple notes can be copied and pasted from one board to another and can even be pasted as text into a text editor like Scrivener or Microsoft Word Read more about importing and exporting via Copy and Paste subsection 9 2 3 4 2 6 Resizing Notes To resize a note 1 Move the mouse over the left or right edge of the note until the cursor changes to the resizing handle icon Images can be resized from any side as can background shapes section 4 4 See Getting Work Into Scapple section 9 1 for information on how to import images 4 2 NOTES 19 2 Click and drag the mouse left or right to make the note narrower or wider Text notes will rewrap automatically getting taller or shorter to fit the text to the new note width Resizing Notes from the Middle For notes that have been centre aligned or just in any case where you would like to resize the note from the middle of it rather strictly left or right you can hold down the Option key while dragging This also works for Shapes in the up and down direction To resize multiple notes 1 Select all the notes you want to resize 2 Move the mouse over the left or right edge of any one of the notes until the cursor changes to
115. tor Perhaps the easiest way of selecting multiple notes is to use the marquee selection tool Figure 4 3 To do so simply click anywhere on the board outside of a note and then drag the mouse with the left button still held down A rectangle will appear that moves with the mouse and as you drag to resize the rectangle anything that is enclosed by or touches the rectangle will be selected Release the mouse button to finish using the marquee selection tool Holding down the Option key while dragging will remove notes from the current selection If you wish to discard a selection you can click anywhere on the board background with the mouse or use the Edit Deselect 8D menu command To flip the selection state for the entire board use Edit Invert Selection 381 If for instance a board has three notes A B and C and C is selected the result of this command would have A and B selected 16 CHAPTER 4 LEARNING THE ROPES Inspector could have a button to set some preferences too Should be able to write notes between existing notes and if move it the entire stack will n with it E Figure 4 3 Click and hold at 1 then drag and release the mouse button at 2 Preferences Keep preferences simple Default font size 4 2 3 Editing Notes To edit a note do one of the following Double click into it Select the note and hit the Escape ke
116. tration and Updates If you purchased Scapple from the Mac App Store you can safely skip this section as it pertains to the registration and maintenance of the version of Scapple we sell through our own site Installation activation and application updates will be handled for you by the Mac App Store application 3 1 Installation 1 Download Scapple from the Literature amp Latte website There is no difference between the trial version and the registered version you turn the trial version into the regular version by purchasing a serial number and using it to activate the trial version 2 When the Scapple DMG disk image file finishes downloading double click on it in the Finder if it hasn t opened for you automatically and drag the Scapple icon into your Applications folder Important Scapple will not be correctly installed on your system if you drag the icon directly from the DMG to the Dock it must be dragged onto your hard disk first 3 To add Scapple to your Dock drag it there from the Applications folder or right click on its icon in the Dock after it has been launched and select Options Keep in Dock from the contextual menu 4 Once you have installed Scapple you should eject the DMG from your computer by clicking on the eject icon next to the Scapple volume in the Finder Note that if you attempt to run Scapple from a non standard location such as directly from the DMG you will see a warning message wh
117. ult note width as determined in the New Notes Preferences tab the note width will be adjusted to snugly fit the text Faded Transparency This slider determines the visibility of notes that are set to be faded If the slider is all the way to the left the note will be almost entirely opaque if all the way to the right the note will be nearly invisible Default note styles for new documents Allows you to determine the set of note styles that appear in the Format Note Style Apply Note Style menu for new documents Clicking Set From Current Document will take the note styles of the frontmost Scap ple document and archive them for use in new documents This set of note styles as they were at the time this button was clicked will then appear in the note style menu in new documents created using File New Clicking Reset to Defaults will reset the note styles used for new documents to those that are provided with Scapple by default A 2 NEW NOTES 81 Automatically check for updates Direct Sale Only If this is checked whenever Scapple is launched it will check the website to see if there is a newer version avail able and if so will ask you if you want to update Note that if you do not have this checked you can still check for updates by choosing the Scapple Check for Updates menu command The drop down menu beneath this option governs how frequently Scapple will check for new versions If you want to stay on t
118. ur click on Show Colors at the bottom of the popover to bring up the full colour palette panel To clear the text colour from notes so that they use the default do one of the following lt Choose Format Colors Clear Text Color 50 CHAPTER 6 FORMATTING AND APPEARANCE Click on the Text Color colour picker in the Note Style pane of the Inspector and choose the white square with the diagonal red line through it in the popover that appears Text colour can only be applied to an entire note so even if you are editing the text of the note and select a range of text within it these commands will still only affect the whole note 6 2 4 Applying Borders to Notes amp Shapes Both background shapes and notes can have a variety of border styles applied to them individually or as defaults To apply a border to notes or shapes first select the items you wish to affect notes and shapes can be selected together if desired then do one of the following 1 Use the Format Border sub menu to choose a border thickness or No Border to remove an existing border These options are also available in the contextual right click menu 2 Choose a border thickness from the drop down menu at the bottom of the Note Style pane of the Inspector In the supplied figure Figure 6 5 all six border thicknesses including none at all are displayed within the box on the left side The Inspector is also shown
119. ur computer is connected to the internet Scapple will do a quick check to see if there is a newer version available and will prompt you to update if one is found It is strongly recommended that you always update to the newest version available Choosing Don t Check will disable automatic checks in which case you will want to select Check for Updates check for updates manually in the application Scapple menu from time to time to You can change your mind later by setting this option in the application preferences Appendix A You can also adjust the frequency of the automatic checks in the prefer ences When a check finds available updates a window will appear outlining the details of the update It is recommended that you take a quick look through the update notes as 3 3 APPLICATION UPDATES 11 occasionally certain changes in operation may be implemented You can view the full list at any time by following the link on the product page on our website To update the application when an update has been found click the Install Update button Scapple will then download and install the latest version of the program for you When the download and installation is complete you will be presented with a button to restart the program Click this and after Scapple restarts it will be up to date Software vs Your Work The advent of mobile operating systems for tablets and smart phones has unfortunately blurred
120. with the keyboard arrows while selection mode will attempt to select notes in the direction of the arrow press Use the shift key to increase how much distance a note is moved by Select All A When editing text all of the text within the current note will be selected Otherwise all of the notes on the entire board will be selected even if they are not currently visible Select This sub menu provides a number of convenience methods for selecting notes Read more about Selecting Notes subsection 4 2 2 and Selecting Shapes subsec tion 4 4 2 Notes Stacked Below 3A Selects the remainder of the notes in the current stack starting from the selected note down If multiple notes within the stack are initially highlighted the entire stack will be selected Notes Overlapping Selected Shapes 38A Applicable only when one or more background shapes are selected All notes overlapping these shapes will be added to the selection You may also hold down the Option key and click in the background area of the shape to perform this action click allows multiple shapes and their overlapping notes to be incrementally added to the selection B 3 EDIT MENU 89 Connected Notes 38A All notes directly connected to the currently selected note s will be added to the selection Consequently chaining this command will allow you to incrementally broaden the selection to those note s connec tions and onward Connected Clusters lt 38A
121. ws 1 Open the Document tab of the Inspector 2 Set up the options for background colour text colour font and writing direction as you wish them to be set for the current document and all new documents 3 Click on the Set As Defaults button at the bottom of the inspector Whenever you create a new Scapple board by choosing File gt New its appearance will be based on these options 46 CHAPTER 6 FORMATTING AND APPEARANCE 6 2 Note and Shape Style Options Individual notes and in some cases ranges of text within them as well as background shapes can have their formatting changed in the following ways You can apply bold italics underlining or strikethrough to the text of each note These options can be applied either to whole notes or to ranges of text within notes You can change the text size of each note Text size changes can only be applied to entire notes not to ranges of text within notes Since shapes can never hold text this setting will be disabled for them You can set the text colour of each note overriding the default text colour This setting does not apply to shapes You can apply a coloured border to each note or shape and choose the thickness of the border The style of the border can be changed to square jagged cloud or rounded which is the default You can choose whether each note or shape has its own background fill colour or not You can fade notes and
122. y Return can be used to start editing but only if Return creates new notes is dis abled in the General Preferences Appendix A tab To finish editing a note do one of the following Hit the Escape key Select another note or click elsewhere on the Scapple board Hit the Enter key If Return ends editing is ticked in the General Preferences tab hit the Return key The Return and Enter keys only act the same if Return ends editing is ticked in the Preferences this is not ticked by default Enter will always end editing but Return will by default start a new paragraph Not to be confused with the Return key On a full sized keyboard the Enter key will be beside the numberpad and the Return key beside the letter keys On most laptop keyboards Enter is used by combining the Fn key and the Return key 4 2 NOTES 17 4 2 4 Moving Notes With the Mouse Movement is typically done with the mouse in a manner that will be familiar to anyone who has dragged and dropped files from one location to another in Finder To move a note simply click on it hold down the left mouse button and drag it to its new location letting go of the button when you are satisfied with its position To move several notes first select all the notes that you wish to move subsec tion 4 2 2 Then click on one of the selected notes keep the mouse button held down and drag to move all selected notes To m

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