Separate background customization from thought Types
Currently the only way to customize thought backgrounds, a valid use case on its own, is by assigning a type that has one associated by it. This renders the typing system useless.
So for my (creative) work flow, I want to assign backgrounds and types, but they are not linked. Types are supposed to work cross cutting across the plex, but this breaks if your background-requirements are not exactly the same.
It would make more sense to have background simply a property of thought itself. Or of tags with some sort of priority system, but that would be complicated in comparison.
Use cases for backgrounds that don't exactly overlap with types?
- Well, I have groups of nodes that I want to have a certain background, to help me orient where I am in my creative process... or simply to tickle my brain. That's not in the type-system domain and shouldn't be.
- Another case is if you want use TheBrain to create a Prezi-like presentation, zooming from node to node each with their own background
- One other case is if you want to use TheBrain as a choose your own adventure type of navigation.
In other words, backgrounds is about visual stuff, not data typing and taxonomy.
(original thread: https://forums.thebrain.com/post/thought-types-vs-backgrounds-9539-13367746?trail=15)
Benny Bottema
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Marnie L Hutcheson
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Forgive me if I am making my own interpretation of what has been requested here, but I resonate with the 'non Type' use cases listed by Benny above.
I commonly assign background and text colors in thoughts to make them visible in their plex setting. Many/Most of them are case specific one-offs that would be far better served with a background image than a background color.
Each of these thoughts is customized individually. But I am limited to text and background color + icon...
I am wishing more and more to be able to assign different backgrounds to individual thoughts for use both to document its core idea pictorially, and so I can use/share the thought in presentations in situ in its brain. I would like to script presentations out of the thoughts in a brain - without copying the thoughts to a different tool to present them.
I am not interested in presenting a powerpoint linear presentation any more.
The brain can accommodate multiple scenarios and complex logic --things I need daily to explain and test real world scenarios.