![]() It seems like I constantly forget one of the best features of iThoughts: global map searching. It’s great for those times when I think I’m making a short list and I end up needing a much bigger canvas to work in. I’ve setup Editorial and Drafts actions to quickly take plain text outlines and create concept maps in one shot (the setup is sufficiently described on the linked support site). There’s also a parameter to specify the theme to apply to the map when it is created. The scheme supports creating new maps from plain text outlines or appending to existing maps. The iThoughts support site has examples of the new x-callback-url scheme. Now I can just apply one of my custom themes and move on. I often start a small map, not caring that much about the style but find myself deep down the rabbit hole on a project, wishing my map looked a little better. This makes it pretty easy to go from a giant sprawling map to something quite a bit more organized. It’s also simple to apply a different theme to any old or new map. I’m not big on crazy variations of topic shapes and formatting but I do like a nice looking map when I work and I like the colors to blend together rather than distract from each other. I really like the iThoughts line style options and the really nice palette suggestions for topic levels. It’s the little details that make setting up a custom theme easy in iThoughts. But they can also be manually adjusted to give the perfect design if that’s what you’re looking for. By default, each level will inherit the settings from the previous level so there’s no need to tweak each one if you don’t want to. Below the general map layouts there are settings for each of the topic levels. There are several options for background color and map layout. If I want to dive deep into the formatting options, iThoughts is ready to please with global and level specific settings. ![]() The great thing here is that I get a gorgeous map style that I can save as a custom setting and apply to any map in the future. At the simple end of the spectrum, I set some basic attributes like line shape, layout and callout styles and apply the rainbow spectrum for coloring. The formatting options in iThoughts are as simple or complex as I want to make it. There are a number of bug fixes but two of the biggest new features are x-callback-url support and highly customizable map themes. There’s a beautiful update to iThoughts for iOS available now. ![]()
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