Slatebox is more beautiful than ever with a completely new logo and design. Enjoy!
We’ve also spent time deliberately casting a wider vision throughout the site by rebranding the core mind mapping app as SlateMind, and emphasizing Slatebox as a platform for ‘off-rail’, real-time applications instead of merely a single mind-mapping app. We are committed to mind-mapping as ever, and SlateMind will be the defacto standard app that ships with every Slatebox account, but as we reach out to developers, it’s increasingly important to convey Slatebox as a platform that provides a unique user experience for a multitude of applications far beyond the scope of just mind-mapping. Slatebox has always been designed as a platform, and the re-branding done today is in sync with the long-term vision.
Now the multi-selecting includes proper re-sizing. (And there was much rejoicing.) Simply use the resize icon in the lower right of the box surrounding the selected nodes to resize all the nodes at once:
Now you can select a group of nodes easily using the new multi-select link in the upper-left of the slate. Just click this link and select a group of nodes by dragging across the slate to include the nodes you’d like to include. You will be able to move and delete the selected nodes easily. Resizing is coming soon.
Once selected, the group will be contained by a background rectangle:
You can simply drag this rectangle around to move the group, or click DEL on your keyboard to be prompted to remove the entire group:
Please let us know at support AT slatebox.com if you have any questions. Thanks!
I’ve gotten a number of requests to provide more help documentation, and thought I would embed a new video that gives a succinct overview of Slatebox and its capabilities.
Additionally, here are a couple links to other online help documentation.
More documentation to follow, but you can now embed URLs on your nodes to provide external links. Please email support AT slatebox.com if you have questions. Thanks!
We’re trying to keep up with all the interest; to all of you have asked to be part of the education pilot: Thank You! It’s coming soon. I’ve had requests from all over the world. It’s exciting to see.
As usual, please drop me a line at tim AT slatebox.com if you have any questions or need some help.
I’m happy to announce some great UI improvements at Slatebox:
A new help site has launched. Look for it in the top bar of your site after you log in. We’ll have a bunch of great training materials in the Knowledge Base shortly.
A lot of improvements have been made to the canvas:
Slimmed down the birdseye to give more room for slate-building
Now, nodes are automatically centered whenever they’re updated with text or images
Newly created nodes now automatically enter text-edit mode
I think these enhancements will make a lot of people happy!
Stay tuned for some simple video instructions that will show up in the help center.