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1. 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 Help 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 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 using 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 firs
2. Replace Previous Replace All Scope Find Options Replace O All Notes V Ignore Case Selected Notes Contains X Replace amp Find Replace All Figure 8 1 The standard text find panel When text is located it will be highlighted for editing If you used the Enter key to initiate the find the panel will be dismissed and you will be placed 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 F3 or in the opposite direction with Edit gt Find Find Previous Shift F3 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 and 53 54 CHAPTER 8 SEARCHING IN SCAPPLE paste it into the search field Simply hit Ctrl Shift F to load the phrase into the Find panel silently and then F3 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
3. 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 47 1 Use the Format Border sub menu to select from one of the four available op tions Rounded this is the default lt 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 Options 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 Ctrl 1 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 at the bottom of the popover gt you want a custom colour click on Show Colors to bring up the full colour palette panel To clear the fill colour from notes so that they use the default do one of th
4. 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 lt gt xt rtf doc docx odt To import text files of these types simply drag them from the Windows Explorer and drop them onto your Scapple document 4 gt If you drop 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 55 56 CHAPTER 9 IMPORT EXPORTING amp PRINTING 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 Notepad or Wordpad 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
5. To toggle whether the selected notes or shapes are faded use Notes Fade or Ctrl Shift F Alternatively tick the Faded checkbox in the Note Style inspector pane 6 3 Note Style Presets Style presets 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 49 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 doi
6. 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 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 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 STACKS 29 This is a stack of notes They can be easily created with 3 Stacks 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 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
7. to zoom out let go mode Shortcuts for F again to zoom back in on the Cc 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 background shapes can become magnetic which means that overlap ping notes will stick to them when they are moved 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 26 CHAPTER 4 LEARNING THE ROPES 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
8. To move an existing note into a stack simply select the note in the stack that it should appear beneath then hold down the Ctrl 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 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 Shift Tab to outdent or promote the selected items Text cannot be outdented beyond the left margin of the note 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 t
9. 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 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 Ctrl K 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 order of distance from the initially selected note in any direction so that all of the text is displayed in a single note B 5 FORMAT MENU 89 Bring Forward To Front Ctrl Shift When notes or shapes are overlapping one an other 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 a
10. 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 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 Next finds the next instance of the text in the search field Previous returns the previous match lt gt 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
11. 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 4 45 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 Alt and Ctrl keys together to draw an inverse arrow 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 NN could create a X connected note Space bar drag scrolling too Other shortcuts for de arrows etc alee a SOS merge Zoom 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 E litio Zoom to Selection too K 4 Figure 4 6 When dragging a magnetic shape the drag ghost shows the enclosed notes that will move 4 5 Stacks Notes can be stacked on top of one another to create
12. 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 Options 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 default note width as determined in the New Notes Options tab the note width will be adjusted to snugly fit the text Embedded Inspector needs restart If you would prefer to see the Inspector controls embedded along the right hand side of each Scapple window enable this option and then reload all open boards When this option is enabled a new inspector will be used for each board rather than having one which is shared by each open board 74 APPENDIX A OPTIONS 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 th
13. Style Text Style Bue Note Body Background Shapes Font Sze 12 00 pt Should be able to surroui with boxes and shapes el pena 8 B 3 5 All text color m Fill Color 7 moves Faded Borders Thickness No Border y Style Rounded E E Shadow E Write Completely lt anywhere bring to front senc freeform DY A Double dick or hit command retum AAA Formatting options available in menus Split amp merge S s feme doubie cick ha could create a Scrivener lt Zoom E Figure 4 1 The default Scapple window and features 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 Ctrl and Ctrl 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 s
14. Thickness Se A Extra bold at four pixels Five pixels for maximum impact The background shape around these notes has been set to two pixels Figure 6 5 A demonstration of the available border thicknesses 46 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 Options 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
15. 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 Alt 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 Alt drag and drop in 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 Alt and Ctrl 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 Ctrl Alt 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 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 cu
16. 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 features Find Ctrl F 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 Find Next F3 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 Shift F3 As above only it will seek backward in the text instead of forward Use Selection for Find Ctrl Shift F Use the currently selected text or the entire contents of the selected note as your search term You could then immedi ately use Find Next Previous or load the Find panel and refine the search parameters or supply a replacement text Jump to Selection Ctrl Shift Space Scrolls the view so that the currently se lected text is positioned in the middle of the window or as close as possible to it Useful if you want to quic
17. 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 Registration and Updates 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 installer exe file finishes downloading double click on it in Windows Explorer if it hasn t opened for you automatically to start installation Simply follow the instructions provided for each step of the installer 3
18. 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 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 Alt key and click anywhere within the shape Use the Edit Select Overlapping Notes menu command lt gt Marquee selection can be used within a shape by holding down the Shift key to temporarily disable selecting the shape itself and dragging it 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 Ctrl key and click in the background shape to toggle its selection state 4 4 BACKGROUND SHAPES 27 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 n
19. commands for creating manipulating and organising notes and shapes within the active board or the current selection New Stacked Note Ctrl Enter 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 If a 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 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 B 4 NOTES MENU 85 When creating new notes using these c
20. 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 Ctrl C 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 Ctrl V 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 cursor where you would like to split it and use the Notes Split Ctrl K 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 Ctrl C or go to Edit Copy or use Copy in the contextual menu 9 3 PRINTING SCAPPLE BOARDS 61 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 Ctrl V 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 clipboa
21. 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 the menus 50 CHAPTER 6 FORMATTING AND APPEARANCE New Note Style Y Include font size and style V Include text alignment and indent 7 Include text color v Indude background and border style Include size 7 Indude faded setting Indude magnetic setting 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
22. 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 60 CHAPTER 9 IMPORT EXPORTING amp PRINTING 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 deselected 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 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
23. 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 Scapple and make it difficult to use 38 CHAPTER 6 FORMATTING AND APPEARANCE A background texture can add a nice touch to the look of your Scapple boards A a Ce They can even make you feel more productive ad A AAA A Figure 6 3 A Scapple board using a leather background texture no digital sheep were harmed 6 13 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 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
24. see The Order of Things subsection 9 2 1 Fortunately 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 INTEGRATION WITH SCRIVENER 65 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 Ctrl Shift E and save the PDF file to disk 2 Locate the PDF file in Windows Explorer and drag it into Scrivener s binder re member that you cannot place PDF files into Scrivener s Draft folder though 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 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 groun
25. 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 90 APPENDIX B MENUS AND KEYBOARD SHORTCUTS Copy Note Style Ctri Shift C Applicable when only a single note or shape is se lected This command and its sibling command below is useful if you wish to duplicate formatting between notes or shapes and do not anticipate need ing to do so repeatedly saving a note style might be a better choice in that case This command copies all applicable formatting attributes Paste Note Style Cirl Shift V Pastes the currently stored formatting characteris tics from the Format Note Style Copy Note Style menu command to the selected items Import Note Styles Batch import all of the styles from another Scapple docu ment on the 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 The following commands can be used to style notes or alternatively selected ranges of text within a note They each work in a togg
26. text colour Make text bigger or smaller Add bold italics underline or strikethrough lt gt 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 CtrlsShift l 4 2 NOTES 21 Use the commands available in the Format Menu section B 5 A selection of common commands can be accessed from the right click contextual menu gt 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 dete
27. 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 9 2 GETTING WORK OUT OF SCAPPLE 57 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 lt gt 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 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 do
28. 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 Format Fade has been applied to the selection it will be saved This is off by default 6 3 NOTE STYLE PRESETS 51 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 gene
29. to do is drag image files from Windows Explorer onto your Scapple document Their default width will conform to that supplied in the options Appendix A Images like shapes can be resized from any angle and they will always retain their original aspect ratio 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 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 notes 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
30. E 59 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 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 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 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
31. Once the installer has completed you should find a Scapple icon on your desktop 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 8 3 2 REGISTRATION 9 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 If you have lost your serial number clicking on Retrieve Lost Serial
32. User Manual Scapple for Windows fetos ft Literature amp Latte October 2013 1 0 0 02 2013 2015 Literature amp Latte LTD All rights reserved Contents Contents I Getting Started 1 About This Manual 1 1 Terms and Conventions o n osoenean eaaeo eeann aeee 1 2 Pinding TNES as s a kaa Ke E E E E E E 2 What is Scapple 3 Registration and Updates Sl Installation cosida ida a a 3 2 EIA sorea AAA eee a EWA AAA 3 3 Application Updat s as pone a e don 4 Learning the Ropes 4 1 Scapples Main tr dc AA ia O 4 2 NOLES sra raras Er daras E 4 3 E e 2 6 4 gain ta oo ek BA Rk OR i a ee ee h G 4 4 Background Shapes cido 4 5 SU beets bo he eee e a a a aa oy eee Ge ak 4 6 Creatine Hyperlinksto Files psd bee Gere ol wind hee eee II Reference 5 File Management Essentials 3d Creating a New Scapple Docui nt cooosrsaraa ea 5 2 Saving a Scapple DOc mMEnt sss ai i se a 00d ds ea ar AOR ac as 9 3 Opening Existing Scapple Documents iVigrrrran rra 5 4 Moving Scapple Documents sese eco 6 Formatting and Appearance 6 1 Changing the Appearance of a Scapple Board ooooo oooooorrrro ii ii co 0 0 12 12 13 22 25 28 30 32 33 33 33 34 34 35 36 CONTENTS 6 2 Mote 2d Shape Style Options o rios arar 6 3 Note Style Presets 7 Navigation 8 Searching in Scapple 9 Import Exporting amp Printing 9 1 Getting Work Into Scapple 9 2 Getting Work Out of Seapple isi
33. 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 in the Help menu from time to time to check for updates manually You can change your mind later by setting this in the application options Ap pendix A You can also adjust the frequency of the automatic checks in the preferences 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 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 run the updater for you When the download and update is complete you the next time you launch the software it should be up to date Software vs Your Work The advent of mobile operating systems for tablets and smart phones has unfortunately blurred 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 Scapp
34. able in the Notes menu and the default setting for new background shapes can be set set via the Options 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 69 Inspector E Note Style Background Color w Use Default Choose Texture Text Appearance Default Color mn e Font Helvetica Writing Direction Left to R
35. and select the document and then click the Open button In Scapple use the File Open Recent sub menu and then choose the document In Windows Explorer locate the document and then double click it 5 4 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 Windows Explorer to copy cut paste or drag and drop your files 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 yoLean annlu_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 andes and fill colour 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 numbe
36. apply a custom border colour to a note that does not already have a border Clear Border Color Removes any custom colour settings for the border colour on selected notes or shapes Borders 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 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 Users who write in a 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 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 Ctrl Shift F 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
37. 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 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 Show Inspector menu command Ctrl Shift l 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 41 Inspector ea Text Style BJW Us Note Body Font Size 1 12 00 pt Alignment laa Text Color a Fill Color a E Faded Bo
38. at 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 Automatically check for updates If this is checked whenever Scapple is launched it will check the website to see if there is a newer version available 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 top 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 Default text Determines the placeholder text that will appear in newly created notes This can be left empty if you do not wish new
39. b 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 underlining 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 Ctrl U 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 Strikethrough or hit Ctrl Alt 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 strikethrou
40. ct 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 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 They can have some effect on the order in which notes are exported to text formats see Getting Work Out of Scapple section 9 2 4 3 CONNECTIONS 23 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 Ctrl 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
41. cument 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 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 58 CHAPTER 9 IMPORT EXPORTING amp PRINTING 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 note
42. d 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 Top Edges 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 Distribute considers the total width or height of the selection and will move all of the notes in between the two extreme end notes so 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 88 APPENDIX B MENUS AND KEYBOARD SHORTCUTS Before Figure B 3 The results of using horizontal distribution on four notes
43. d 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 Ctrl 9 5 Integration with Scrivener As you d expect given that 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 Items can be dragged from the Binder sidebar Outliner or Corkboard editor views in the order that they appear in Scrivener 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 When dragged into the binder Scapple will make an educated guess at the best order to use
44. d shapes as well as of the 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 Options The font face itself is set via the Document pane of the Inspector since Scapple documents ar
45. d shortcuts can also be used to create a new note connected by a dotted line above below to the left or right of the selected note such as Alt Left 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 Alt Shift Left 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 Ctrl 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 4 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
46. dates automatically in the General preference tab section A 1 If you have disabled this or just wish to check before the next scheduled check this menu command will force an update check When updates are available you will be walked through the automatic up date process Read Application Updates section 3 3 for more information on this topic 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 About Scapple Display the credits and version information 2http www literatureandlatte com 3http www literatureandlatte com scapple php Appendix C Acknowle gements This user guide was written in Scrivener and produced with MultiMarkdown and the ET X typesetting system 95 Appendix D Legal Scapple and this manual are copyright 2015 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 synchronisation As with all synchronisati
47. do in Serv command Use Servs find panel as a tempiato Spit amp merge id 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 100 Allow 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 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
48. e as can background shapes section 4 4 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 To resize multiple notes See Getting Work Into Scapple section 9 1 for information on how to import images 4 2 NOTES 19 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 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 gt 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
49. e following Choose Format 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 through 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 option tabs Appendix A 48 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 AS available in menus too lit amp 2 Xx 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
50. e limited to using a single font face The font size can also be increased or decreased using the Ctrl Shift and Ctrl Shift 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 66 10 1 NOTE STYLE 67 BUs Note Body Font Size lel 12 00 pt6 Alignment laa Text Color a Fill Color E Faded Borders Thickness No Border Style Rounded E 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 sub menu The default alignment for new notes can be set via the Options Fill Color Determines the fill colour of selected notes The fill colour can also be changed via the Format Colors gt sub menu The default fill colour for
51. e only when one or more back ground shapes are selected All notes overlapping these shapes will be added to the selection You may also hold down the Alt key and click in the back ground area of the shape to perform this action Connected Notes 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 connections and onward Connected Clusters Fully selects all notes directly and indirectly connected 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 com mand is used on any of the notes Invert Selection Flips the selection state for the entire board All items that were se lected will be removed from the selection and all items not selected will be added Deselect Ctrl D All notes will be deselected This can also be done by clicking any where on the background but in cases where a background shape is filling the entire view this command will properly deselect everything for you 82 APPENDIX B MENUS AND KEYBOARD SHORTCUTS Add Edit Link Ctrl Shift L 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
52. ely to a temporary file until it is given a name and location to be saved to Open Cirl O Open an existing Scapple board from the disk section 5 3 You can also load documents by double clicking on them in Windows Explorer or by right clicking on Scapple in the Taskbar to access pinned and recent documents Open Recent Select from 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 up dates Close Ctrl F4 Immediately closes the current Scapple document automatically saving when doing so With unsaved documents you will be prompted to save each board as necessary Save Cirl S Saving the board will merely overwrite the old copy on the disk in a standard fashion 78 B 1 FILE MENU 79 Save As Ctrl Shift S 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 receive any of the unsaved changed at that point Moving forward you will be working in the new document allo
53. er as defaults for newly created documents For instance when you turn spell checking on or off via the Edit Spelling sub menu the setting you choose will be used as the default for new documents A l General Options available in the General Options tab are as follows Enter ends editing If selected when editing a note hitting Enter will cause editing to end and the focus to return to the main Scapple view If this is not selected then Enter will add carriage returns to your notes and you will need to use the Esc or Enter keys to end editing Enter creates new notes If selected when the main Scapple view has the focus i e when you are not editing a note hitting Enter will create a new note If this is deselected then hitting Enter 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 72 A 1 GENERAL 73 n Options New Notes New Shapes Return ends editing F Return creates new notes J Use selected note style for new notes Auto size notes Embedded Inspector needs restart Faded Transparency lel Language English v Default note styles for new documents Set From Current Document Reset to Defaults Automatically check for updates
54. ermines 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 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 reference to further documentation on the feature if one is available It is thus useful as a topical table of contents B 1 File Menu Contains commands for managing documents Scapple boards as well as moving data in and out of them via import export and printing New Ctrl N Immediately creates a new blank Scapple board to work on section 5 1 Your work will begin autosaving immediat
55. erring 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 notes you wish to transfer to another Scapple document 2 Select Edit Copy or hit Ctrl C Alternatively if you wish to remove them from the original document use Edit Cut or Ctrl X 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 Ctrl V to have the notes pasted somewhere central in the viewed area 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 64 CHAPTER 9 IMPORT EXPORTING amp PRINTING 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 transferre
56. es 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 18 CHAPTER 4 LEARNING THE ROPES Notes can be moved with the keyboard too Figure 4 4 Movement mode is indicated by this icon in the lower left corner of the status bar 4 25 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 Ctrl key while releasing the mouse button When the Ctrl 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 Ctrl C then select Edit Paste Ctrl V When you select Paste from the Edit menu or use the shortcut the note will be pasted into the rough centre of the view when you select Paste from the contextual menu 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 sid
57. everal paragraphs of detailed description There are no limits to how you arrange them Scapple boards are 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 Alt amp Shift keys will create a new note that is connected by an arrow pointing to the new note holding down the Ctrl key will create a new note that is connected by a dashed line to the selected notes Use Notes New Note Ctrl Enter 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 keyboar
58. 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 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 positioning 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 the currently selected note but if you tap the Alt M shortcut Movement Mode will be enabled 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 mov
59. g 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 colour 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 Choose Format Colors Clear Text Color 44 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 als
60. g 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 4 CHAPTER 1 ABOUT THIS MANUAL 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 document 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 co
61. gh from a note repeat the above process the Strikethrough command toggles strikethrough on and off 6 2 NOTE AND SHAPE STYLE OPTIONS 43 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 Ctrl Shift or Format Font Smaller Ctrl Shift 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 followin
62. he files on your computer are as open to you as targets as locations on the Web 3Links 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 4 6 CREATING HYPERLINKS TO FILES 31 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 Ctrl Shift L menu command 3 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 4 Click the OK button Now you can click the link to load the item in its native program 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 Windows 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 Notepad 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 wo
63. he 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 Ctrl Alt or Notes Remove Arrows Ctrl The Connect With Arrow command will only make arrow connections from the first note selected to subsequently connected arrows it will not make arrow connections between every single note 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 25 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 uble click P uickZoom Allow not using arri Hold down z
64. his works in Scapple as well Ctrl Zooming If the Ctrl key is held down the scroll wheel on your mouse or equiva lent gesture on the trackpad will zoom the view in and out Arrow Key Selection When movement mode subsection 4 2 4 press Alt 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 require mention but using the standard Edit Find Find Ctrl 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 F3 could come in handy for quickly jumping from one cluster to the next Read more about Searching in Scapple chapter 8 52 Chapter 8 Searching in Scapple 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 Ctrl 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 Find E Find Lostideas Next
65. ight 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 70 CHAPTER 10 THE INSPECTOR Document pane of the Inspector to be set as the defaults for new documents 10 3 Embedded Inspector Since the Inspector floats above all
66. ile clicking on it 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 key Enter can be used to start editing but only if Enter creates new notes is disabled in the General Options 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 Enter ends editing is ticked in the General Options tab hit the Enter 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 Windows Explorer 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 move 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
67. it 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 Ctrl K The new split note will be created stacked un derneath 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 text you wish to split into a new note 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 20 CHAPTER 4 LEARNING THE ROPES 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 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 lt 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 Change the fill background colour of notes Change the
68. key to add the other notes to the existing selection much like when extending a text selection in an text editor 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 If you wish to discard a selection you can click anywhere on the board background with the mouse or use the Edit Deselect Ctrl D menu command To flip the selection state for the entire board use Edit Invert Selection 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 oe Inspector could have a button to set some preferences too Should be able to write notes between existing notes and if y move it the entire stack will md Preference with it eep preferences simple Default font size Figure 4 3 Click and hold at 1 then drag and release the mouse button at 2 Selecting Offscreen Notes If you would like to select a note so that it is scrolled fully into view you can hold down the Ctrl key wh
69. kly check another area of the board and then passively return to where you were without typing or removing the selection Spelling gt Accesses the spell checker panel for supported languages Spell checking must be used in a text editing context only Substitutions gt Access to substitutions such as smart quotes and other symbols B 3 VIEW MENU 83 Transformations gt Access to text utilities for converting text case Special Characters Loads the standard Windows character browser Use this to in sert characters that are not found on your keyboard B 3 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 Show Hide Inspector Cirl Shift The floating Inspector palette holds useful format ting 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 Ctrl Shift 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 Toggles the visibility of printed page guides subsection 9 3 2 on the Scap ple board background Usi
70. le 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 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 37 Inspector E Background Color w Use Default Choose Texture Text Appearance Default Color nN o Font Helvetica 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
71. le fashion Read more about Note and Shape Style Options section 6 2 Bold Ctrl B Italic Ctrl I Underline Ctrl U Strikethrough Ctrl Alt Bigger Ctrl Shift Incrementally increases the text size of the entire note To set the precise point size of the text use The Inspector chapter 10 Smaller Ctrl Shift 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 B 5 FORMAT MENU 91 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 Ctrl L Center Ctrl E Justify Ctrl J Align Right Ctrl R Indents gt Indenting adjusts the amount of block padding on the left of the 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 or Ctrl W Decrease Indent Level Shift Tab or Ctrl Shift W Remove Indents Removes all applied indenting from the selec
72. le 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 3 3 APPLICATION UPDATES 11 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 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 ca
73. n 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 2http 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 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 followi
74. n 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 Ctrl Shift It can also be made embedded into the board itself if you prefer using the General options tab section A 1 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 p MB Win Scapplelnterface Scapple File Edit View Notes Format Window Help Inspector Full Screen mode MULion Preferences Default font size Default width Auto size notes Default border settings Forshapes too Other settings spelling on off etc can be saved to defaults internally whenever the settings are changed Icon ideas onto freeform corkboard too Scalpel Chisel Blackboard Drag to Select Stacked Notes ould be able to write tes under one another jd ifyou type in one or lete any others move up or down automatically Note
75. new notes can be set via the Options 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 Options 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 Options 68 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 Options 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 sub menu The default border style for new notes can be set via the Options 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 Options 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 they are This option is also avail
76. ng so Format Note Style Import Note Styles You can change these default styles in General Options Appendix A by open ing a document with the styles you want to use henceforth and clicking the 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
77. ng symbols Ctrl Ctrl is usually located to the left and right of the spacebar key Alt the Alt key is typically on the left side of the keyboard Some keyboards will having matching key on the right side of the spacebar others will dedicate the right side to AltGr which is used to insert accented letters Shift 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 mod ifier keys they will be printed together Example Cirl Shift 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 feature 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 We refer to the contextual menu as the menu that can be pulled up by clicking the secondary which will most often be the right side but on left handed mice it could be the left mouse button or my pressing the Application key on your keyboard For example if you select a note in Scapple and press the right or secondary mouse button a pop up menu will appear with some handy commands that relate to manipulating the note 1 2 Findin
78. ng 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 F9 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 F10 Adjusts the zoom by increasing or decreasing the magnification so that every note on the map can be seen at once Zoom In Ctrl 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 Cirl Incrementally decreases the magnification of the board 84 APPENDIX B MENUS AND KEYBOARD SHORTCUTS Zoom To Selection Ctrl Shift 8 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 Cirl Shiff R Zooms the view to a random note anywhere on the board QuickZoom Z On account of how this feature works it cannot be listed in a menu as it only works while the keyboard shortcut 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 B 4 Notes Menu Provides
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80. note in order of distance from the first selected note 2 Choose Notes Stack Cirl 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 2 Choose Notes New Stacked Note Ctrl Enter The new note will be created be neath 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 30 CHAPTER 4 LEARNING THE ROPES 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
81. 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 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 Options 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 or Format menu after they are created A 2 NEW NOTES 75 r Options General E Default text New Note Default font size 12pt Defaullt width 200 px Default alignment E Fill Color Border No Border Border Style Rounded E Shadow Default document appearance options can be set using the Set as Default button in the Document pane of the Inspector o ox Jl cams Figure A 2 The New Notes tab 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 no
82. o alter aspects of how the software looks and feels Read Options Appendix A for more information on what can be changed Exit Quits the software closing all windows Documents will normally be saved auto matically as they are closed Untitled document will prompt whether you wish to save any documents them prior to shutting down B 2 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 4 Undo amp Redo Ctrl Z Ctrl Y 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 Ctrl X Ctri C Ctrl V Cut copy and paste act fundamentally as they do in other applications 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 no
83. o 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 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 Note Style Text Style Uts Note Body Font Size fe 12 00 pt Alignment m Text Color L J Fill Color a A note with no border E Faded The six border widths A note set to one pixel Border Color This note is set to two pixels
84. odate the current scale percentage as set in the text field next to the Orientation setting 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 The remaining buttons are grouped into the following categories 1 Zoom display controls these do not impact the output they only adjust the display settings within the window itself The first two buttons will attempt to resize the 62 CHAPTER 9 IMPORT EXPORTING amp PRINTING MB Print Preview Win Scapplelnterface e A E HOW gi H Hda 48 MD 3 39 gt GLAS Sse ee eer nate ot Figure 9 1 Print Preview window pages to fit the window either by width as shown in the screenshot Figure 9 1 or by both width and height whichever edge is longer You can also manually adjust the zoom percentage in the text box to the right of these buttons or click the magnifying glass buttons to decrease and increase the zoom level respectively Paper orientation select portrait or landscape orientation This option will impact that printed output Page display controls the page control features a text field you can use to jump directly to a specific page as well as arrow control buttons for flipping through the document page by page The two outer arrow buttons will skip to the very beginning or end
85. of the document The three buttons to the right of the page flippers control how many pages are displayed within the window at once You can choose between a standard single page view simulated bookbinding view and 4 page view None of these controls will have any impact on the output 4 Print settings and output the final two buttons directly control print output The 9 4 TRANSFERRING NOTES BETWEEN SCAPPLE BOARDS 63 left button will open the paper settings dialogue which can also be access with File Page Setup The right most button sends the current printout to the stan dard Windows print dialogue box To cancel the print preview window without printing any settings you choose here will however be saved you can either click the window close button along the top or tap the Esc key 9 3 2 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 Transf
86. ommands 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 To create this example the centre note was styled after the new connected notes were created This behaviour can be changed in the Options 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 Alt Left On Right Alt Right 4 Above Alt Up Below Alt Down The second group of commands will create an arrowed connection pointing to the new note Figure B 2 On Left With Arrow Alt Shift Left On Right With Arrow Alt Shift Right Above With Arrow Alt Shift Up Below With Arrow Alt Shift Down 86 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 Cirl Connects two or more selected 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 Connect All Connects each note or shape with every o
87. on 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 Ihttp www literatureandlatte com licence php 96
88. otes 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 intuitively 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 Ctrl 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 Ctrl Shift M 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
89. other windows including other software you may at times find it more convenient to have the Inspector docked into the side of each Scapple board rather than using the floating shared palette To do so set Embedded Inspector from the General options tab section A 1 You will need to reload all Scapple documents for this change to take effect As noted when the Inspector is embedded into a board its settings will only impact that board unlike how the floating Inspector always impacts the current board you have active Each board will use its own embedded Inspector Part III Appendices Appendix A Options Application settings allow you to make global changes to the way the software works Open the Options panel by selecting the File Options 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 ov
90. r of style options to individual notes from changing the font appearance such as applying bold and italic to giving notes borders and fill colours 35 36 CHAPTER 6 FORMATTING AND APPEARANCE Finding These Instructions Confusing This section of the guide has been written under the assumption 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 Ctrl Shift l 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 Scapp
91. rate 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 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 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 t
92. rd including Scrivener Microsoft Word Notepad 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 MS Paint 9 3 Printing Scapple Boards To print your Scapple document select File Print This will bring up Window s stan dard print panel where you will find the usual options such as the number of copies that should be printed and which printer to use Printing will use whatever settings have been previously used in File Print Preview so if you are not happy with the default output you should print from Print Preview first 9 3 1 Print Preview The first four buttons along the top marked as a set some unique Scapple settings Print Page Guides If selected a dotted line is printed to show where the page 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 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 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 accomm
93. rders Thickness No Border Style Rounded E 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 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 Font Bold or hit Ctrl B Alternatively select the notes you wish to affect call up the Inspector View Show Inspector or Ctrl Shift l 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 42 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 Ctrl I Alternatively select the notes you wish to affect and click the I button under Text Style in the Note Style ta
94. re displayed Send To Back Ctrl Shift As above only the selected items will be pushed to the bot tom of the stack B 5 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 cases 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 gt Remove a selected style from the current document This will not impact any notes that have had that
95. rk based on a copy of an existing one 5 1 1 Starting a New Blank Document 1 In Scapple choose File New Ctrl N 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 Ctrl S 5 1 2 Starting a New Document Based on an Existing Document 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 5 2 Saving a Scapple Document 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 docu ment It is still always a good idea to save manually from time to time though and you 33 34 CHAPTER 5 FILE MANAGEMENT ESSENTIALS will also want to use Save to specify the location on your hard disk you want to keep the file 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 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 Item Type SCAP File To open an existing document do one of the following In Scapple choose File Open find
96. rmine 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 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 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 22 CHAPTER 4 LEARNING THE ROPES 2 Use Notes Bring to Front Ctrl Shift 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 Ctrl Shift 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 conne
97. rrently 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 24 CHAPTER 4 LEARNING THE ROPES Alternatively select all of the notes you wish to disconnect and choose Notes Disconnect Ctrl Alt Shift This command is also available from the contextual menu When selecting individually connected 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 Alt 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 t
98. s 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 Ihttp www literatureandlatte com support php 94 APPENDIX B MENUS AND KEYBOARD SHORTCUTS 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 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 Register If you are using the demo version of Scapple and decide 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 The software can be set to check for up
99. s 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 Plain Text List txt Produces a simple 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 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 options that allow you to customise the appearance of the exported file or to choose what is included will be asked after you select a location to save the exported file PDF File Export PDF Ctrl Shift E 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 9 2 GETTING WORK OUT OF SCAPPL
100. s c sedan ads de sacha aan cs 9 3 Printing Seapple Boards yu AAA 9 4 Transferring Notes Between Scapple Boards lt 95 Integration with Scrivener 42k ve pda 10 The Inspector 10 Note A bor ee POR eee 6 OAH a eS We Document ae A os Seka aad 103 Embedded Inspector eo dcp ex dona wie Stee WS Ee ee ee ee a II Appendices A Options Al Crd A2 New Notes 2 2 A 3 NewShapes B Menus and Keyboard Shortcuts B 1 File Menu B 2 Edit Menu B 3 View Menu B 4 Notes Menu B 5 Format Menu B 6 Window Menu BZ Help Menu C Acknowlegements D Legal iil 40 48 52 53 55 55 56 61 63 64 66 66 68 70 71 72 72 74 76 78 78 80 83 84 89 93 93 95 96 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 program 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 whe
101. 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 6 WINDOW MENU 93 B 6 Window Menu A window refers to the standard container that holds the Scapple board with the name and window menu in the top left and window control buttons on the right This menu concerns itself with the management of these windows themselves Minimize Reduce the active topmost window to an icon in the system Taskbar Sim ply click on the icon to restore it or use its named entry from the lower half of this menu Maximize Increases the size of the window so that it fills your monitor without remoy ing the title bar Full Screen F11 Expands the current window to fill the entire display pushing aside the Taskbar and removing the window title and borders 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 Scapple document will be provided so that you can easily switch between documents even if they are not currently visible B Z Helo Menu Provides access to useful tools and links for learning Scapple or getting in touch with us Scapple Manual F1 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 revision
102. t 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 mailto sales literatureandlatte com 10 CHAPTER 3 REGISTRATION AND UPDATES 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 month when you launch Scapple if your computer is connected to the internet Scapple will do a quick check to see if there is
103. tacks are detected and the way notes get resized too changing everything to work from right to left not just typing 6 16 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 follows 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 New its appearance will be based on these options 40 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
104. ted 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 Ctrl 1 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 92 APPENDIX B MENUS AND KEYBOARD SHORTCUTS Change Border Color Applicable to both notes 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
105. tes 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 76 APPENDIX A OPTIONS 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 a Options General New Notes E Fill Color Border 1px v Border Ste Border Color ly Shadow F Magnetic Default document appearance options can be set using the Set as Default button in the Document pane of the Inspector oc cams Figure A 3 The New Shapes tab 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 A 3 NEW SHAPES 77 Border Determines the default border width for new background shapes The border of individual background shapes can be changed via the Inspector or Format menu after they are created Border Style Det
106. tes 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 B 2 EDIT MENU 81 Arrow Keys Move Notes Alt M Toggle between Movement Mode subsection 4 2 4 and selection mode Movement mode lets you nudge notes 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 Ctri A When editing text all of the text within the current note will be se lected 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 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 Applicabl
107. the Inspector 2 Choose a font from the Font drop down menu you can also type in the first few letters of the font name to accelerate selection Note that this will only affect the 6 1 CHANGING THE APPEARANCE OF A SCAPPLE BOARD 39 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 fonts 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 Cmd Z 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 s
108. ther item in the selection Connect With Arrow Ctrl Alt Connects two or more selected notes and or shapes together 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 Ctrl Alt held down Remove Arrows Ctrl Remove all arrows from the selected notes reverting them to basic dashed line connections Disconnect Ctrl Alt Shift 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 Ctrl Shift M 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 B 4 NOTES MENU 87 Stack Ctrl Applicable to selections of two or more notes Notes will be stacked in order of distance in 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 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 aroun
109. wing you to leave a trail of revisions behind you 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 programs or as a graphic file rendering of the map On account of Scapple s freeform design 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 Cirl Shift P Set up the paper size and page settings for printing to 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 Preview Displays the preview interface showing you what will print if you use File Print Print Ctrl P Send the Scapple board to your printer 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 section 9 3 80 APPENDIX B MENUS AND KEYBOARD SHORTCUTS Options Application settings allow you t

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