Select Multiple Thoughts

<p>Selecting multiple thoughts will open a thought selection box on the right of the plex, and is the quickest way to modify multiple thoughts at the same time. </p>

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With multiple thoughts selected, you can perform the following actions by right-clicking the selection box and using the contextual menu:</p>

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<li>Forget / Delete Thoughts</li>

<li>Set Tags and Types</li>

<li>Set thoughts as private</li>

<li>Unlink the thoughts from the active thought</li>

<li>Link to the active thought</li>

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<p>There are several ways to select multiple thoughts.</p>

<h2>Large Scale Thought Selections</h2>

<p>To select all the thoughts for a specific number of levels, and that share a relationship (for example, all child thoughts), use <b>Edit > Crawl Brain and Modify Selection</b>. The window will allow you to specify which direction, and how many levels, and then will select all thoughts with that criteria.</p>

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You can also add report results to a selection. For example, if you want to modify all thoughts created after a certain date, first run the report and then choose <b>Edit > Add Report Results to Selection</b>.</p>

<h2>Small Scale Thought Selections</h2>

<p>For more customizable selection, you can ctrl + click (on the Mac it's cmd + click) to add one thought at a time to the selection. 

To add all thoughts with a specific relationship to the active thought, ctrl(cmd)+click the gate for that relationship. For example, I can ctrl+click the child gate to select all the child thoughts of my active thought.</p>

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<h3>A note on Shift+Clicking</h3>

<p>Shift clicking a thought selects all thoughts between the thought that was shift-clicked, and the active thought.

Let's say I have activated a thought and am looking at bunch o' child thoughts. I'm in<b> Normal > Expand </b>all view, and there are child thoughts with multiple parents.

Of the child thoughts displayed, I want to be able to easily find the all the current child thoughts with one of the parents, but not the other.

To do this, I shift-click on the parent whose children I want to see.

In the picture below, I have Applications, Newsreaders as the active thought. Each of the child thoughts have two other parents: <b>Applications, iPhone</b> and <b>Applications, Mac</b>. I want to see all the iPhone Newsreaders, so I shift-clicked  the <b>Application, iPhone </b>parent thought (shown in red circle) and it highlights all of it's child thoughts on the way to the active thought, showing me all the iPhone newsreaders.

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