Arranging a map
How a map is laid out is part of what it says. A branching tree and a straight line are two different claims about the same set of internotes.
#Getting into arrange mode
Press Edit map. The internotes become draggable and you can put them anywhere on the canvas — they snap to a grid, so a layout built by hand still lines up.
Undo and Redo cover any mistake. Save keeps the arrangement; Cancel leaves it as it was.
#The five templates
The Templates menu re-arranges every internote at once into a shape. They are a starting point rather than a constraint — drag anything afterwards, and Undo puts it back if you do not like the result.
Four of the five read your connections and arrange the map according to them. One does not, which is the thing worth knowing before you press it.
- Tree
- A hierarchy, branching downward from whichever internotes nothing points at.
- Linear
- One vertical column, ordered by the connections — so a chain of internotes comes out as the reading order you built.
- Burst
- Fans outward from a centre, following the connections.
- Columns
- A column per level of depth: everything one step from the start shares a column, everything two steps shares the next.
- Radial
- An even circle. Radial ignores your connections — it spaces every internote equally around a ring regardless of what joins to what, sizing the ring to the number of them. Useful for a set with no order; misleading for one with an order, because the circle will not reflect it.
#Adding and removing
Add Internote searches your internotes to bring more in. Its New shortcut creates one for this map without leaving the canvas, which is the least disruptive way to fill a gap you noticed while arranging.
A map that follows a repository folder gets its members from there instead — see Publishing from GitHub. Your arrangement is still yours: a push never moves a node you have placed, and an arriving internote lands in a free row below everything else. Those members have no Remove from map, since the next push would bring them straight back.