Southbeach Modeller vs TheBrain

Posted by Dr Andus
Mar 22, 2016 at 04:21 PM

TempusFugit wrote:
>My desired outcome with CT is to assign an F-Key to make Topic Links
>either expand out or contract to the Parent.

As far as I can tell that’s not currently possible, as Navigator seems to be more configured for mouse use. So it’s a double-click instead. But you could request it as an option at the CT forum.

In case of expansion, to
>more than just the current capability of the first level of the Topic.
>It would be great to enable also expansion of Links to 2nd, 3rd and even
>4th Levels. [One can do this in “TheBrain”]

Yeah, currently it’s manual, you just need to keep double-clicking on individual topics.

>I realize that, given the current UI layout of Nav in CT, with many
>Topical links, this could be a messy affair with some Projects, but one
>could remedy this by making Nav an independent, full size window.

Yes, for Navigator to be of good use, it’s better to make it a full sized window, ideally on another monitor.

FWIW, here is my setup:

In Options, I have “Double click expands/collaspes topic” selected. And in the Navigator I have “Vertical outline” view set. To me that gives the cleanest result, when there are many links. Then I just click away, if I want to expand to further levels.

Another visualisation option is to add the following to the footer of the project, so it is displayed in every topic:

[[$GRAPH:(($CURRENTTOPIC))|Height=300|Width=600|Levels=1]]

This then displays the outbound links from the current topic at the bottom of the current topic, as a star-shaped graph. The levels displayed can be adjusted.