please make smarter use of mouse wheel in outline / expanded
I must say that this is one of the most annoying areas of the software...
- rather than having to click on the thought (sometimes twice) to use mouse wheel to increase the font size (sometimes the active node is out of the view) why not just assign a shortcut key that when pressed along with mouse wheel will adjust font size?
- along the same idea, another shortcut + MW would make horizontal spacing of nodes in outline and expanded views
- another shortcut would increase the spacing vertically
- yet another would make the links longer or shorter while maintaining the same layout
- yet another + mouse wheel would let you quickly scroll through (and activate or select) thoughts
- yet another - quickly switch between view types
- yet another - increase or decrease collapsing (either of all nodes or the one under mouse wheel).
These would make the workflow much, much more enjoyable.
Just a clarification: To resize text size using the mouse wheel, just put the cursor over the active thought – you do not have to click on it.
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LukeP commented
In addition, re text sizes, the workflow could be whenever a mouse pointer is over a node, pressing a certain key + mouse wheel would permanently increase the font size, another key, font type, another key + mouse wheel - increase the size (view only) of all nodes connect to the one under mouse wheel, and of course some other combination would be the current behaviour - increase size of all
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LukeP commented
Harlan, yes, but if you have a huge map, that you have panned, you may not see your active node. Now you have to pan back to the active node.. but why even ask the user to mouse over anything? Shortcut + mouse wheel is almost a standard approach in industry now. Think any 3d package, photoshop etc... plus allowing users to set their own shortcuts resolves the problem of everyone wanting dif thing