Density setting like Gmail - with options like default, comfortable and compact

brian_dl · January 2023

This would allow for good looking spacing on some maps (default) and the ability to tighten spacing / fit more info in a smaller space on crowded maps.

Nathanael Coyne · February 2023

Yes I like this idea. Another mind mapping tool I've used had the ability to set vertical and horizontal spacing in pixels, but I'm very ok with three options like you suggested.

Rooster McNugget · February 2023

Hi @brian_dl

Nice idea! I'm in! 👍️

Admin BSF.company · February 2023

Indeed, good idea for big maps!

Upvoted ⬆

Olaf Roeb · February 2023

Hir @brian_dl , potentially this is a super interesting request. Adding to the focus mode and presentation mode (😭 hope still is last to die), another option to view and concentrate on different parts of a map. It should very much add to orientation and eagle perspective. You got my vote.😃

Andrew Lapidus · February 2023

+1 Big fan of this suggestion as well a similar one from @NathanaelCBR in this post here!

Curious @NathanaelCBR if you also imagine your idea of a compact auto-layout to be similar to this suggestion? If yes, we might consider combining these threads to combine the votes and get more dev attention to this request.

Nathanael Coyne · February 2023

@Andrew Lapidus There's definitely a way the feature requests could be combined because the default | comfortable | compact settings would have to be applied to the manual positioning override that my feature request is about.

For this feature request it's purely about auto-alignment and spacing between topics and children, and siblings:

So if I wanted to manually override the position of one child in the above diagram, the default | comfortable | compact settings should still apply to prevent nodes and lines clashing: