Then you can connect them, group them, add new stuff, edit, delete, generally play around. Scapple is a simple text editor that you can use for jotting down ideas, thoughts, characters, dates, incidents etc. But, with a cute little product called Scapple, I think I might have found a good halfway house. At other times I’ve written myself into a corner, or else I’ve reached my destination short of a good word count. The simple way has sometimes worked for me. These writers stand a better chance of not ending up on the rocks.
They have plotlines, sticky notes, lines, connections on an ever-expanding storyboard that, once substantially complete, enables then to steer a carefree course. Others – and there are many – plot and plan over a period of weeks. There are those of us for whom an (often dim) light bulb goes on, we open a nice new page in Word or Scrivener and we start feverishly typing away. If you wish to use this content in any manner, you need written permission.As we all know, the world is divided into two. This content was written by Diane Cipollo. Related Articles Editor's Picks Articles Top Ten Articles Previous Features Site MapĬontent copyright © 2022 by Diane Cipollo. Scrivener and Scapple screenshots used by permission of Literature and Latte. Finally, I added a rounded purple border and a drop shadow to the background rectangle shape, which contains all of these objects. However, as the rest of the text is black, I added a black border around each of the three notes. I also added a purple fill color to the section labels (which are really just notes) and set the text color to white. In my template (see screenshot), I set three custom text sizes for the article title, section labels and basic text. You have your choice of several border thicknesses and four border styles, which are rounded, square, jagged and cloud.You can also format each note's fill and border color.You can change the size, alignment and text color for each note.
You have the usual text style choices, such as bold, italic, underline and strikethrough.As mentioned above, you will set the default text color and font in the Document settings, but you also have the option to change the formatting for any individual note. You have several options for formatting your notes. The note text box will expand as you type.
To add text to a document, you will create a note. Also, I used the Noteworthy font, to give the appearance of handwritten notes. In my template, I wanted a simple style, so I used a white background. The third document setting is your choice for the writing direction, which is left or right.You can set the default text color and font for the document.Instead of a solid color, you can use a texture graphic that will be tiled both vertically and horizontally over the canvas. You can set a custom background color for the document canvas.Here are some of the Scapple features that I used in my template. And, it wasn't long before I decided to design my own custom Scapple template that I could use for each article (see screenshot). I really like that you can just drag and drop or copy and paste content directly in to Scapple. At first it's a bit messy but by the time I'm finished, I have laid out all the important points of the article. For example, I use it to build my articles for BellaOnline.įor each article, I start a new Scapple document and add the text and images that I collect as I research the topic. Scapple by Literature and Latte is a mind mapping app, which you can use just like a "virtual sheet of paper".
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