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Do more with the thought appearances.

Hi,

Being a veteran mindmap builder I like to put lots of colours in my brains. Especially the text colours of thoughts I like to differentiate a lot (as well as the background colours).

A couple of things bother me on that level:
First: The labels can't have the colour of the thought (...or a different colour)
Second: In the notes area of a thought, it's name and label are not inheriting the allocated colours of the thought text.

This would greatly enhance the unity feeling of the whole. You can choose for hero icons in the note but it not being able to follow the colour logic of the thought itself... makes no sense to me.

Third: Furthermore it would be much more visually attractive if the text of each thought could have a free font choice (in part or totally) and/or size, which would make it possible to focus attention on certain important aspects of a brain.

I hope a lot of people are going to see the potentials of this "reshaping" of thoughts...

Regards,
Jean-Marc

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  • Jean-Marc Luypaert commented  ·   ·  Report

    #Harlan, Thanks for pointing to the historical context that I wasn't aware of. I totally understand your observation, but if the background was a problem why not just keep the text colours (or put an option in the settings that lets you choose what to keep in the note area)? To me this feels like you threw away the baby with the bathwater.
    The same goes with the possibility to use different fonts and sizes... not everybody will need/like this... just put in a setting on/off.
    I totally understand that not everybody that uses TheBrain is a mindmap fanatic, but "qui peut le plus peut le moins" (He who can do the most can do the least) as Aristoteles once said.

    Regards, Jean-Marc

  • AdminHarlan Hugh (Admin, TheBrain Technologies) commented  ·   ·  Report

    For what it's worth, this was already implemented in early versions of the new web client and later reverted based on user feedback.

    We had added matching background and foreground colors for thought names (especially at the top of the content area above the notes). However, it was removed because it significantly improved the overall UI, and we received no negative feedback after the change.

    The original reasons for adding it were exactly the same as what you described. In practice though, it felt clunky: each thought name appeared in a rounded rectangle with its own background color sitting on top of the content area’s page color (which rarely matches the plex background). This made the name stand out awkwardly, like it was tacked on rather than integrated.