Foreword: I do not prefer shift space shortcut. I want to see basic color palette.

Statement: It might be nice for this app not forcing me to click 5 times for visually pick a color. Currently I have to right click the node, Node Style, Background, select color, click OK.

Solution suggestions: How about right click + node color + select color (no OK button) = 3 steps
Or, how about right click + select one of 5 MRU color = 2 steps

I regularly update my color backgrounds. However, as said before, I do not prefer using any shortcuts.

Why should apps categorize and change setting hierarchy? With every feature option gets deeper being victim of getting app closer to visible neatness. Is there an A/B test for users? I want the view node options with old design, if choosing is possible.

Benefits

+ at least in philosophy, students are generally introduced to textual arguments with the conclusion at the bottom (under a line) and premises above and proceeding methodically downward toward the conclusion. It is good pedagogical practice to connect new material, e.g., how to graphically represent the inferential structure in arguments using an argument map, to material students have already learned. So, it would be pedagogically beneficial to be able to graphically represent arguments with MindMup in a way that students have already learned.

+ Ultimately, of course, there is nothing magical or obligatory about any particular convention for representing arguments or any particular orientation of an argument map. It is all about whatever offers the most clarity and works best pedagogically for a particular task. Sometimes that is with conclusions at the top, with the premises supporting from below; sometimes that is with the conclusions at the bottom, with the premises leading to them, and mirroring (many languages') top-to-bottom reading order; sometimes that is with the premises on the left and the conclusions on the right, mirroring (at least English) left-to-right reading order; etc. So, it would be pedagogically useful to be able to switch the orientation of the argument in real time to suit the pedagogical task at hand.

+ Indeed, one of those pedagogical tasks is to teach students that, though conventions are certainly useful, there is nothing magical or obligatory about any particular convention for representing argumentative structure, and that decisions about how to represent arguments should be driven by considerations of clarity and elucidatory power. The real-time ability to flip arguments around from left to right, and top to bottom can help focus students on the inferential structure of the argument itself, which is convention-neutral, as opposed to the conventions themselves.

I am in the process of creating an online membership community for international graduate engineering students in the USA.

They understand basic English so we can use Mindmup and other tools to collaboratively create educational modules.

We will publish these using Creative Commons while allowing for adaptations and commercial uses. Therefore anyone can translate these into their native language. They can make edits, revisions, and any other way to engage with their audiences online and offline.

I have outgrown my task management system. My search for one that is large and flexible led me to Samepage dot io. There are alternatives that are similar but SamePage offers support in 9 other languages https://www.samepage.io/online-collaboration-tools

Mindmup does integrate with Slack and that is great. I want Mindmup to integrate with Samepage too. That could lead to many of my future bilingual members becoming a customer of MindMap.