Scapple

Name: Scapple
Price: 20.99 USD
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Author: Literature & Latte

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scapple: to work or shape roughly, without smoothing to a finish. - The Chambers Dictionary ROUGH IT OUT Ever scribbled ideas on a piece of paper and drawn lines between related thoughts? Then you already know what Scapple does. It's a virtual sheet of paper that lets you make notes anywhere and connect them using lines or arrows. MAKE CONNECTIONS Join up your thinking however you want. Scapple doesn't force you to make connections—every note is equal, so it's up to you which notes have connections and which don't. You have complete freedom to experiment with how your ideas fit together. IT’S SCAPPLE SIMPLE Creating notes is as easy as double-clicking anywhere on the page; making connections between ideas is as simple as dragging and dropping one note onto another. And unlike real paper, in Scapple you can move notes around and never run out of space. FEATURES • Simple—and fun!—to use • Write notes anywhere • Connect notes using drag and drop • Move and arrange notes easily • Stack notes in columns of related ideas • Label connections • Create background shapes to group notes • Customise the appearance of notes • MathType support • iCloud syncing • Full screen mode • Export to popular formats or print your ideas • Easily drag notes into Scrivener for further development SUPPORT If you have any questions or feedback, you can contact us by email on scapple.support@literatureandlatte.com or via our support forum at http://www.literatureandlatte.com/forum.

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OK, long-dated tweaks would make it perfect
10/25/2014

The Expensive Manzana
Scapple has no competition when you need to capture and make sense of a lot of ideas or bits of information.Works better than an outliner for problems that do not have a well-understood structure because it lets you visualize things and move around bits and pieces like a mindmapping tool.Scapple works better that a mindmapping tool if the chunks of information you need to visualize are text with dense content (not just one-word concepts), notes, paragraphs, tec. Some people use it as a drafting tool, juggling around paragraphs, for short prose, speeches, essays, etc.The only issue, which is getting really old, is that it has very poor graphical elements. The straight lines and arrows do not blend well unless you have a very rigid layout. It is a pity, because Scapple is great to put together networks of data with lots of connections, and the straight lines become a distracting visual nuisance. A little tweak to use softer curves (simple Bezier or splines) would elevate Spline’s original but dated interface to the level of a killer app.I am consistently more productive using Scapple than any other outlining tool; I can work fast and focused even if the end product is an eye sore.
OK, long-dated tweaks would make it perfect
10/25/2014

The Expensive Manzana

Scapple has no competition when you need to capture and make sense of a lot of ideas or bits of information.Works better than an outliner for problems that do not have a well-understood structure because it lets you visualize things and move around bits and pieces like a mindmapping tool.Scapple works better that a mindmapping tool if the chunks of information you need to visualize are text with dense content (not just one-word concepts), notes, paragraphs, tec. Some people use it as a drafting tool, juggling around paragraphs, for short prose, speeches, essays, etc.The only issue, which is getting really old, is that it has very poor graphical elements. The straight lines and arrows do not blend well unless you have a very rigid layout. It is a pity, because Scapple is great to put together networks of data with lots of connections, and the straight lines become a distracting visual nuisance. A little tweak to use softer curves (simple Bezier or splines) would elevate Spline’s original but dated interface to the level of a killer app.I am consistently more productive using Scapple than any other outlining tool; I can work fast and focused even if the end product is an eye sore.
Scapple is everything I never knew I needed
10/27/2015

TheBarometz
I expect there are an infinite number of uses for this app. I initially expected it to be useful in drafting story arcs, but within a few weeks I was relying on it for a number of other tasks as well. Character sketches, scene outlines, storyboards … This app is so versatile and easy to use that it’s now among my three favorite writing-related apps. My favorite features include the ability to save “note styles,” and to import images, but it does so much more. It allows me to manipulate text far more than should be expected from an idea-drafting tool. It lets me choose from a variety of fonts, text sizes and text colors. I can place text in any of several different bubble shapes with different background colors and border colors. Scapple lets me align, distribute, group and connect elements in ways so many ways … Scapple is everything I never before realized I needed. I’ve been using it for more than a year, and I can honestly say that I hope there never comes a time when I’ll have to write without it.
Scapple is everything I never knew I needed
10/27/2015

TheBarometz

I expect there are an infinite number of uses for this app. I initially expected it to be useful in drafting story arcs, but within a few weeks I was relying on it for a number of other tasks as well. Character sketches, scene outlines, storyboards … This app is so versatile and easy to use that it’s now among my three favorite writing-related apps. My favorite features include the ability to save “note styles,” and to import images, but it does so much more. It allows me to manipulate text far more than should be expected from an idea-drafting tool. It lets me choose from a variety of fonts, text sizes and text colors. I can place text in any of several different bubble shapes with different background colors and border colors. Scapple lets me align, distribute, group and connect elements in ways so many ways … Scapple is everything I never before realized I needed. I’ve been using it for more than a year, and I can honestly say that I hope there never comes a time when I’ll have to write without it.
There Is No Better Productivity Software That Exists.
07/14/2017

CaptainGoose
This is app can do absolutely anything you want it to when it comes to planning, organizing, managing, and innovating. Anything. Many people will at first simply see at as a another mind-mapping tool. However, these people would be missing out on what is arguably the most useful business tool that exists (excluding process automation tools, of course—but those are no fun to talk about). My favorite way to use Scapple is as a high-level dashboard that contains every idea, concept, and visual graphic related to my current project(s). I like to be able to open one window and simply sit back at the start of my workday and glance over and be reminded of everything I’m working on. In addition to serving as a “digital bulletin board”, I can also add text/paragraphs and link descriptions to objects and form relationships among everything on the page—images, ideas, current projects, future projects, priorities, to-do lists, etc.In addition, it’s great for mocking up landing pages and web pages. Finally, the lack of structure is what makes this app so great. Unlike other mind mapping tools, you can continuously add to a mind map (or dashboard in my case) for an infinite amount of time. Every day you can add something new to it and it’s easy to move everything around so that it continues to make sense.This app could seriously be sold for a lot more money…so you might as well get it now while it’s so cheap.
There Is No Better Productivity Software That Exists.
07/14/2017

CaptainGoose

This is app can do absolutely anything you want it to when it comes to planning, organizing, managing, and innovating. Anything. Many people will at first simply see at as a another mind-mapping tool. However, these people would be missing out on what is arguably the most useful business tool that exists (excluding process automation tools, of course—but those are no fun to talk about). My favorite way to use Scapple is as a high-level dashboard that contains every idea, concept, and visual graphic related to my current project(s). I like to be able to open one window and simply sit back at the start of my workday and glance over and be reminded of everything I’m working on. In addition to serving as a “digital bulletin board”, I can also add text/paragraphs and link descriptions to objects and form relationships among everything on the page—images, ideas, current projects, future projects, priorities, to-do lists, etc.In addition, it’s great for mocking up landing pages and web pages. Finally, the lack of structure is what makes this app so great. Unlike other mind mapping tools, you can continuously add to a mind map (or dashboard in my case) for an infinite amount of time. Every day you can add something new to it and it’s easy to move everything around so that it continues to make sense.This app could seriously be sold for a lot more money…so you might as well get it now while it’s so cheap.
great idea, ok result
11/18/2020

Phil Ess
Having this kind of mind mapping tool has been awesome. I have used Scapple to organize work projects, personal projects and even just organize random thoughts (like having white board just ready to go on your desktop). And what it does, does seem to work. Creating a note and then linking it works smoothly for the most part. I had wanted more from this app, though. I hope they will either improve it or that some competition will show up. I'm not going to pretend to be able to diagnose the problem but I wish there was more, like a lot more. I don't know if that is. Maybe it's playing around with other ways to visuals concepts, or having more automated features (like inputing cells from a workbook and have machine learning options to attempt various ways that you may want that info organized). I guess I just want the team that started in a perfect direction with this software to follow through on creating somethign amazing.
great idea, ok result
11/18/2020

Phil Ess

Having this kind of mind mapping tool has been awesome. I have used Scapple to organize work projects, personal projects and even just organize random thoughts (like having white board just ready to go on your desktop). And what it does, does seem to work. Creating a note and then linking it works smoothly for the most part. I had wanted more from this app, though. I hope they will either improve it or that some competition will show up. I'm not going to pretend to be able to diagnose the problem but I wish there was more, like a lot more. I don't know if that is. Maybe it's playing around with other ways to visuals concepts, or having more automated features (like inputing cells from a workbook and have machine learning options to attempt various ways that you may want that info organized). I guess I just want the team that started in a perfect direction with this software to follow through on creating somethign amazing.

This update fixes important bugs from 1.5.1 and includes macOS 26 compatibility improvements. macOS 26 "Tahoe": • Redesigned icon for dark, clear and tint modes • Seamless title bar integration with board background Key Improvements: • Improved copying styles between boards via drag and drop • Easier connection line interaction on non-Retina displays • Improved note splitting behaviour Bug Fixes: • Smoother zooming • Fixed crashes when entering Full Screen on Intel Macs • Fixed crash with incompatible colour storage • Fixed sporadic crash when clicking on notes. • Fixed lost edits when closing some boards with open notes • Fixed crash loading locked files • Fixed Full Screen board sizing on macOS 11-12 • Improved drag and drop stability • Fixed undo/redo for connection commands • Fixed connectors losing arrows when adding notes to connections.

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