
The intent of the view (added in v9.9.0) is to cluster child notes of a similar type together using efficient space packing—resulting in the odd-shaped notes seen in the view. The layout draws on spatial packing as seen in Voronoi diagrams. The view's name is inspired by the art and design of the Catalan architect and designer Antoni Gaudí (in places Anglicised without the accent as 'Gaudi').
The cause of attraction is set by a query-based expression in the Force box—see link below for the view controls. If the Force field is empty, no notes attract other notes. But everything else in the view still happens: notes are attracted to the centroid of their hulls, friction is applied, and a new Voronoi diagram is computed.
What the table shows
All children (but not further descendants) of the container selected when choosing this view type. Adornments, separators, and notes with $GaudiHidden set to true
are not shown.
Press [Return] to create a note to the right of the selected note. Double-click to create a note at any point. The new note ought to be created somewhere near the click point. Of course, forces and the pressure of adjacent notes can cause it to be inserted go somewhere else in the view.
The Badge widget and Link widget operate as in other views.
Option-drag performs marquee select on notes within the chosen rectangle. In contrast to map view, where any note that partially overlaps the marquee rectangle is selected, in Gaudí view only notes whose centre—technically their centroid—lies within the marquee rectangle created when they are selected.
To edit a note, select that note, then click and hold over the title. When finished, press [Return] or click elsewhere.
Even though Tinderbox can fit plenty of notes into the map, eventually it will run out of space and computational power. 40–80 notes is probably the sweet spot, and less than 200 is recommended as a maximum.
Note that prototypes are drawn in Gaudí view with a double border. Links are drawn among notes if both source and destination are visible in the view.
At low roundness levels, an inter-node boundary is drawn between notes borders.
As well as using the attribute based filtering (see Controls, below), Gaudi view supports use of the view pane Filter bar, allowing dynamic examination of a query-based subset of the container's notes, temporarily simplifying the view.
Right-clicking in the view opens a context menu.
From v10.0.1, notes use $NameFont (i.e. as in map view titles)—see also Document Settings ▸ Map.
From v10.0.2, the contextual menu now offers to Hide notes rather than Omit them. Also, he prototype submenu of the contextual menu now sets the prototype to the original note, even if that original note has prototypes (this relates to the selected item being an alias).
See also—notes linking to here: