Editing nodes

There are quite a few choices in the Node menu.

Let's look first at the possibilities for changing the appearance of a node.

Appearance

Nodes can have different colors.
Red
Green
Blue

To change the color, use the Node Color choice or hit Alt-c. Alt-b sets the color to a blend of the current color and the background.

Nodes can have different fonts, sizes and styles.

small

normal

bigger

Large

OOh

Bold

Italics

Bold and italics

To change the typeface, use the pulldown menus for font and size at the top of the screen. To change font styles, or make the type larger or smaller, pick Font in the Node menu.

Styles

The Style choice in the Node menu lets you pick between Fork ...

or Bubble formatting ...

or to create a Cloud that spans multiple nodes ...

Clouds are well suited for highlighting a region.
Highlighted are the node and all its subnodes.
Clouds can have different background colors.

Nodes can be folded or unfolded

By default, clicking on a node toggles between folded and unfolded.

Nodes can contain followable links to ...

Web pages:

Local folders:
C:/Program Files/

Executables:
C:\WINNT\regedit.exe
Any document on your local computer or your company network

C:\Photos\cat.jpg

To create a link ...

Use one of the Set Link choices on the Node menu. Ctrl-k lets you type in a link; Ctrl-Shift-k lets you pick an item from a file browser.

To follow a link ...

Click on it, or highlight it and use Ctrl-Enter.

On a node with a link and children:

Clicking at the left side opens the link
Clinking at the right side folds or unfolds the tree.

To remove a link

In the popup menu of a node, edit the link by the menu item "Node > Set Link (Textfield)" and set the link as an empty string.

Nodes can contain images ...

Use Set Image (Alt-k), then pick your file using the file chooser.

You can emulate labeled edges ...

Just add a node with a small label.