UnusualSuspect wrote:I don't need Scapple to map onto anything. It would just be nice to have it as an additional feature, like the corkboard or outlines, neither of which I use very often. But standalone is okay.
The corkboard and outliner aren't "additional features", though - they are intrinsic parts of the program that allow you to drill down into your binder outline, zooming in on sections of it, manipulating the contents of folders and structuring the work by working with only the titles and synopses of documents. The corkboard and outliner map onto the binder very directly - they *are* the binder, just displayed in a different way. A Scapple-like view wouldn't be able to do any of that. A Scapple board is a place to brainstorm anything form a whole project to a a single idea; it wouldn't very often equate to an individual section of the binder in the way the corkboard and outliner do, and its freeform connections wouldn't be able to map onto the binder structure anyway. So, if we made it part of Scrivener, it would just be entirely separate to everything else anyway - basically, a different app within the app. It would feel like something tacked on. There would be nothing at all to gain over having it as a separate app, which is much cleaner, and which may also appeal to people who don't use Scrivener as well as those who do.
All the best,
Keith
-- knock them back as unfeasible or not falling within the priorities of the benevolent dictator; and then months or years later, these are implemented in your software. I'll gladly take the hit to my pride, in exchange for my gratefulness of having useful software from Literate and Latte that make a significant contribution to the tools of my trade. Thanks for Scapple, and all you've done over the years with Scrivener. With regard to some form of mind-mapping software that can integrate with Scrivener, permit me one indulgence by letting me say, "I told you so."
