Save Expanded Views as attachments
It would be very nice if Expanded Views could be saved as attachments, and each thought could have one or more Expanded Views attached.
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Mark Michael Lewis commented
Thanks Steven - great idea!
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Steven May commented
Ok after a little bit of work I've actually implemented this feature myself
Each expanded view is attached to a thought as a note (simply as the name of the view)
-Then if I want to activate an expanded view all I have to do is to select the thought which contains the expanded view name in notes and copy it.
-Click on a pinned "map" thought icon (it launches the script) and paste copied name in the text input field
-and Bam! I'm in the expanded view of a selected thought.
http://forums.thebrain.com/post?id=4781035&trail=30#17
made a quick vid
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Hd8OYKbxn0 -
Steven May commented
This is very important for me because I want to do a lot of complex mind maps, concept mas, even flowcharts and modeling real-life cause-and-effect with multiple conditions and so on.
If I'm doing a very specific mindmap and not simply connecting some related information then in order for this mind map to really work I need to see the big picture and a little more control over the placement of thoughts too.
So expanded view is essential for that.
But I will run into problems if I'm going to be doing hundreds of maps in PB and saving them all as expanded views without any categorization... -
PatrickW commented
I would prefer that only one Expanded View could be saved per thought.
When you put your brain in Expanded View mode and select that thought, the corresponding expanded view would automatically be loaded.
It would make the Expanded View mode much more dynamic as it is now and the user interface would still be simple (only a "Save Expanded View to Thought" and "Remove Expanded View from Thought" menu-item would be needed).Of course, the current system to save and load expanded views (to the brain itself) would still be available as an alternative.
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Dryopithecus commented
Would be even better if shows a thumbnail preview of attached Expanded Views when mouse over a thought.