Enable a static Outline View (disable animations)
Add an option to simply deactivate the animations and keep the outline view permanently expanded (while allowing for manual expanding/collapsing of branches as desired), instead of automatically collapsing all other thoughts whenever a subthought is made active. Basically, working ALL THE TIME way it works when the root thought is active.
The Mind Map view sort of works like this, except it willy-nilly switches thoughts between right and left to "maintain visual balance", which is also not configurable.
So what I'm looking for is the strict left-to-right orientation of the Outline View (which is great) plus the stability of the Mind Map view (which is also great!)
As it is now, it's a bit maddening, like trying to work with a file system where the files dance around like moths while you're trying to look at them. So much thought was given to options like fine-tuning the animation speed, which is great, but the much simpler option to disable it entirely was neglected!
Darren McHugh
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This change has been implemented in v15.
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Darren McHugh
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neat! Is it done via setting the "animation speed" to zero? That does seem to get me most of the way there but I do sometimes still find that most of my nodes have collapsed on me when I did not want them to. To be clear, the idea would be that all nodes are always visible in mind map or outline view, forever and ever amen, unless I specifically manually collapse them myself. i don't want the software to *ever* try to "simplify" things for me by guessing at which nodes I want to see. Show me everything. hide nothing. Let me decide.