Node types and styling
The seven kinds a node can be, and the choices that set how a map looks.
Every node has a kind, and the kind decides what it holds and what happens when you open it. How the map looks is a separate set of choices, and they belong to the map rather than to a selection.
The seven kinds
Select a node and the Type slot on the node bar converts it in place, keeping the words already on it.
| Kind | What the node holds |
|---|---|
| Text | Plain words. Every node starts here. |
| Task | Words plus a checkbox you tick on the node itself. |
| Code | Source, kept as typed, set in a monospace face. |
| Math | LaTeX, rendered as an equation. |
| Link | A web address, with an optional title of your own. |
| Note | A pointer at a note in your library. |
| Deck | A pointer at a flashcard deck. |
The first four convert on the spot. Link prompts for an address, and an address that will not open is refused rather than stored; Note and Deck open a picker over the library you are pointing into.
Shapes, loose text, frames, and images are not node kinds; they come from the tool dock in Editing the canvas.
References that reach the rest of your library
A Note or Deck node has no label of its own: it reads as its target's title, looked up live, so you cannot type over one. A deck with cards waiting also wears a chip reading "3 due". A target that has been deleted reads "Missing reference" rather than going blank.
Double click the node, or press the mark on its leading edge, and Mnemo follows the reference: to the note, to the deck, or to the address in your browser.
How the whole map looks
Map style in the header holds four groups of choices.
| Group | Choices |
|---|---|
| Arrangement | Balanced, Tree right, Tree down, Radial, Timeline, Free |
| Branches | Line, Taper, Step |
| Palette | Dawn Classic, Rainbow Branches, Monochrome, Study, Org Chart, Blueprint |
| Background | Dots, Grid, Plain |
Free leaves every node where you dropped it. Arrange now, under the arrangement tiles, lays the map out again after you have added to it.
Save style as template, in the node bar's overflow menu, turns a branch you like into a palette entry of your own: you choose how many levels deep to capture, and the result applies to any map. Templates you saved can be deleted; the six that ship cannot.
Related
- Editing the canvas for the gestures that build a map.
- Export and import for getting a styled map back out.