Two changes that would make presentations in TB much more effective and visually appealing
- In my presentations I hover over Thoughts that contain only a single image file, which allows me to move through the presentation without having to open external programs. The drawback to using this very effective presentation method is that I have to store each image's source file (e.g., a snagit file) elsewhere instead of in the same Thoughts with the images. I need to be able to put these, and other, files into a Thought but still be able to hover over the Thought to activate the image file. I.e., for each Thought that will be used as part of a presentation, I need to be able to select the one file that activates on hover. (I can use this for non-presentation Thoughts too!)
- As I mentioned above, my presentations are full of images that are displayed within the plex. While I really like this feature, it's not visually appealing because images aren't centered in the plex unless I first activate the Thought (and even then the image may be offset!). So I would like to be able to have images appear always centered, regardless of where the 'base' Thought is. This would not only make presentations more consistent, but would also allow users to create images that consistently fill the plex and not just 3/4 of it because the top/side of the image came into contact with the top/side of the plex.
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Brent commented
I've found a work-around for number 1, though both the process and the results could be improved if this feature were designed into TB. If you have multiple files in a Thought, yet you want one particular image file to appear when you hover over the icon, then edit the Thought and go to "Select Icon File" and, of course, select the image file. Besides being a cumbersome process, the drawback to this method is that the displayed image has a large number in the lower right corner depicting the number of files in the Thought. (Normally you want this, but not during a presentation.) The file selection could be made easier by making it a right-click option, and there could be an option (per Thought) to not display the number of files on the icon. Really, this is all that's needed to implement the feature requested in item 1.