#scapple — Public Fediverse posts

@mischa

Um beim Schreiben eines Romans die Übersicht zu behalten, verwende ich Scapple; ich schiebe darauf Personen, Ereignisse, zeitliche Abfolgen, Ideen hin und her, verknüpfe sie miteinander, löse Verbindungen wieder auf oder streiche/lösche Leute, Ereignisse u.ä..

#Scapple dürfte auch hilfreich sein, wenn man einen verknoteten Plot aufdröseln möchte. https://selfpublishingadvice.org/writing-with-scapple-the-mind-mapping-tool-from-scrivener/

In ähnlicher Weise, weniger bequem, ginge es auch mit Zetteln auf dem Tisch oder einem Whiteboard.

@yvanspijk ik gebruik het alleen als het echt moet voor de samenwerking. Ik gebruik #libreoffice voor docs en spreadsheets, apple keynote voor presentaties. #scrivener voor grotere schrijfprojecten met van dezelfde maker #scapple voor mindmaps. Maar dat geeft niet echt grafisch mooie output.

@TfTHacker Tbh, Canvas came out of left field for me. It wasn’t something I was wishing for or expecting, though I played with it when it came out. So far I really only use mindmaps for brainstorming, and I still find #Scapple a little quicker and easier to use for that (just drag a node to another node to connect them). I also prefer Scapple’s straight connector lines to Canvas’s squiggly ones.

I know you can link to stuff in your vault, and I may find a use for #Obsidian Canvas eventually.

@MelRootsNWrites thanks for mentioning #Scapple. I wasn’t familiar with it, although I’ve used #Scrivener for years. I think I will give it a try. As for making charts like you showed of DNA matches, I actually put them into #Reunion and generate charts that way. Sometimes into an Ancestry tree. I put the # of cM as a suffix after the name. Works pretty well and also I’ve preserved the data in tree format that can be exported as a Gedcom at any point. #GeneticGenealogy

I've been trying to find a way to analyze my #DNA matches. I want to get a better idea of what relationship I share with a match and how much DNA we share. I'm a big fan of #Scapple and used it to lay out my Dad's maternal matches.

It will be interesting to compare maternal to paternal. Maybe I will get some insights.

Do you use charts to help you understand your DNA matches?
#GeneticGenealogy #Genealogy #Geneadons

Now I have to ponder whether or not to purchase #Scapple to keep the interactive files accessible. An alternative would be to re-draw the three distinct versions of the #Stemma in another program from which I can export more common formats. Suggestions?

Update on the #Scapple .scap files. I downloaded the trial version of Scapple so I could open the files. They all contain interactive versions of the #EthicaComplementoria #Stemma. I have all of these also as static images in PNG and PDF formats. But they are not editable. Investigating export formats from Scapple, none are useful for me. The OPML format (an XML variant) cannot be imported by drawing tools like draw.io. #FunWithFormats #DataRecovery #RDM #ResearchDataManagement

In the meantime, I found out where the .scap file format comes from: some years ago, while working on the #Stemma for the #EthicaComplementoria prints, I tried out several digital tools for drawing flowcharts and ended up using #Scapple! I don't have it installed currently, but I might see whether I can export the files into a more standard format! #ResearchDataManagement
Learn all about the textual and print history of the #Ethica in my #DiamondOpenAccess book: http://diglib.hab.de/ebooks/ed000738/start.htm

In the meantime, I found out where the .scap file format comes from: some years ago, while working on the #Stemma for the #EthicaComplementoria prints, I tried out several digital tools for drawing flowcharts and ended up using #Scapple! I don't have it installed currently, but I might see whether I can export the files into a more standard format! #ResearchDataManagement
Learn all about the textual and print history of the #Ethica in my #DiamondOpenAccess book: http://diglib.hab.de/ebooks/ed000738/start.htm

In the meantime, I found out where the .scap file format comes from: some years ago, while working on the #Stemma for the #EthicaComplementoria prints, I tried out several digital tools for drawing flowcharts and ended up using #Scapple! I don't have it installed currently, but I might see whether I can export the files into a more standard format! #ResearchDataManagement
Learn all about the textual and print history of the #Ethica in my #DiamondOpenAccess book: http://diglib.hab.de/ebooks/ed000738/start.htm

In the meantime, I found out where the .scap file format comes from: some years ago, while working on the #Stemma for the #EthicaComplementoria prints, I tried out several digital tools for drawing flowcharts and ended up using #Scapple! I don't have it installed currently, but I might see whether I can export the files into a more standard format! #ResearchDataManagement
Learn all about the textual and print history of the #Ethica in my #DiamondOpenAccess book: http://diglib.hab.de/ebooks/ed000738/start.htm

In the meantime, I found out where the .scap file format comes from: some years ago, while working on the #Stemma for the #EthicaComplementoria prints, I tried out several digital tools for drawing flowcharts and ended up using #Scapple! I don't have it installed currently, but I might see whether I can export the files into a more standard format! #ResearchDataManagement
Learn all about the textual and print history of the #Ethica in my #DiamondOpenAccess book: http://diglib.hab.de/ebooks/ed000738/start.htm

@terryflynn I love#linux and first used it in 1993 at Keele. I ran Slackware on 8MB (yes,mega) of RAM on my home PC and used it to send print jobs to Unix servers at the University (among other things) back when we could ‘finger’ eachother and send out a ‘gopher’.
Unfortunately, as a publishing author, I had to move to #macos to run the tools I need ( #scrivener , #Scapple , #Vellum , editing software, etc.) but I do miss those early days when we were beta testing the WWW.

@ellane

Oh. I still love #Scapple and thought the same thing.

How many tools might #Obsidian make redundant while still being future proof?