Create autocolor options.
There could be autocolor of the nodes. For example the color starts from yellow and the more deeper it goes to level the more it become blue. Same as on bubbl.us
It could be done by choose the start color and the end color. And maybe between colors.
And an option to choose colors to the different branches.
this is now supported using the new drawing engine, which allows users to define default sizes, colors, fonts etc for nodes. For more info, see http://blog.mindmup.com/p/custom-css-styling.html
we plan to work on this feature more over the next month and reduce the dependency on CSS. At the moment, styling the map requires a bit of CSS knowledge.
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Hans Vandeveire commented
multi-selecting and coloring will do for me... thanks!
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Hans Vandeveire commented
I'd chose the quick way of painting nodes on a level (or by multi-selecting nodes and coloring them all together)
Auto-coloring is rather subjective (the feature exists in FreeMind as auto-layout; not bad, but I don't use it because it doesn't fit my expectations most of time) -
Arseniy commented
Some idea how could the autocolor some simple interface way.
It needs 2 checkboxes and empty color in the color picker.Here is a brainstorm map I created as an explanation:
http://www.mindmup.com/map/a1be1b7ba07f590130054b22000a1e9286So with the "key color" node the whole branch after it will be colored.
User can set any node's color as "key color". -
ok, so instead of auto-colour, which would require setup and configuration and kind of ruin the simplicity of the site, what if we created a quick way to paint all nodes on a level? or all sub-nodes of a node? (eg press 2 to select all 2nd level nodes, then choose a color)
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Arseniy commented
This is useful to percept the structure.
The use can be different. Depends on what the user want to mark with the color.
For example the depth can be marked with color. Every next node will have slight change in color.
The different color for branches just makes better visual separation and not so boring.
Here some map I made today:
http://www.mindmup.com/map/a1eaf57e307f3e0130054b22000a1e9286And another yesterday. It has different color meanings:
http://www.mindmup.com/map/a139a8d8507f2f0130054b22000a1e9286It's not very handy to colorize the map yet. I had to use side programm to pick colors. Then I copied branches.
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Hi Anseniy,
Can you please provide a bit more info on the context when this is useful, what that helps you visualise and why it's important, so that the other users can relate to it better.
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Arseniy commented
Also coloring the whole branch of nodes would be good.