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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: Lattics - observations and comments from a user
« Last post by Dormouse on May 04, 2025, 04:21 PM »I sometimes feel that I have only scratched 10% of Lattics' functions. Partly because of the way I'm using it at the moment (oriented to particular writing projects and using it as a writing program rather than as a research or notes program), and partly because I've been sticking to familiar workflows.
Naturally I took a look at the new filter features; I used the extended pane. Then switched from card view to mindmap view: the extended pane stayed in card view while the R pane switched to the mindmap, with its own filter. The extra filters don't work in mindmap view.
(I'm not sure whether I should see that as a sensible decision or whether it was just forgotten during the coding. The mindmap is a view of the outline tree of articles - so it makes sense that would have no filters. But I realised that the mindmap view could be filtered by single tags as well as by articles!)
Obviously there is no actual mindmap when using a tag filter since that is a property of an article. Instead there is just a whiteboard which will show articles as well as notes. They can be freely moved around the board (including stacking them on top of each other), dotted lines show existing links and more connections can be made (with the option for adding text to the connection and changing line colour). New notes can be added and will be automatically tagged. It's all wonderfully useful - and I hadn't known it was there. I should maybe have read the manual.
Naturally I took a look at the new filter features; I used the extended pane. Then switched from card view to mindmap view: the extended pane stayed in card view while the R pane switched to the mindmap, with its own filter. The extra filters don't work in mindmap view.
(I'm not sure whether I should see that as a sensible decision or whether it was just forgotten during the coding. The mindmap is a view of the outline tree of articles - so it makes sense that would have no filters. But I realised that the mindmap view could be filtered by single tags as well as by articles!)
Obviously there is no actual mindmap when using a tag filter since that is a property of an article. Instead there is just a whiteboard which will show articles as well as notes. They can be freely moved around the board (including stacking them on top of each other), dotted lines show existing links and more connections can be made (with the option for adding text to the connection and changing line colour). New notes can be added and will be automatically tagged. It's all wonderfully useful - and I hadn't known it was there. I should maybe have read the manual.
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