Around Playpens

After tapping the canvas (or while viewing Series), any canvas gestures will pan the view.

While panning, any concepts outside the current view will be shown as a faint aura’ at the edge of the view, revealing where to pan to see it.

The keyboard presents a few more options for panning the view.

Holding the Control key while gesturing on the canvas will – rather than drawing – pan the view.

For easy movement between concepts themselves, switching to the Series context may be helpful. The Tab key is useful for cycling. Either through the current series, or, when there are concepts visible, through those visible concepts.

If you have particular ideas in mind, try Ctrl-F (or tapping on the ‘Find’ icon), and typing in a term to look for. A temporary series will be created, containing any matches.

With Related/Neighboring Concepts

Dragging the concept from which the search was started pans the view to reveal its surroundings.

Around Profiles

Within Islands

When an Island Hex is not selected, tapping it will make it selected. Tapping it again enters its playpen.

When selected, it will be centered in the view. So as you tap on different hexes in the island you will move around the view. Alternatively, pan the view by dragging a hex.

You can also move around using the same keyboard shortcuts that pan in Playpen View. ‘Up’ and ‘Down’ always behaves the same, but movement left and right will vary slightly.

Between Islands

Whether it be by following a link, or finding others manually, when multiple islands are present, the hex button will also be visible in Island View.

Tap it (or focus the Island Hub, and press Tab) to cycle around the islands.

Opening the account pane menu will also reveal a ‘Profiles’ dialog, more convenient if there are many profiles to cycle.

Playpen⟷Island Transitions

You can move between a playpen and its corresponding profile not only by tapping the Hex button (or End), but also via zoom. Zoom out sufficiently and you will enter Island View; zoom in from Island View and the playpen corresponding to the current playpen hex will be loaded. You can adjust the current zoom via ‘pinch’ gestures, the mouse scroll wheel, and the Pg Up/Home (Gradual/Full Zoom In) or Pg Dn/End (Gradual/Full Zoom Out) keys.