I’m wondering if masterplan supports locking of cards. I want to try migrating my annotated png map out of puref and into masterplan due to it having features I’m missing with the former.

However, if I import a map it is absolutely important that it’s not able to be accidentally moved or selected in general. I’d want it to act as a backdrop. 

Is it possible for me to make an image card for my map that is then ‘locked’ so it cannot be selected or accidentally dragged, like in puref?

Also, is there a way to store all my data inside masterplan projects? Local file paths can break or get lost, and I don’t want my project to be susceptible to bit rot if I use the new web cards either. 

This is especially important as I often move my map file around computers. Puref was amazing for having everything baked into the project file, so I could just move one file between computers and know that everything is still in there. 

After messing around with the demo, it seems impossible to use masterplan for annotating images. The moment you accidentally click on the image card, it enters the foreground and thereby hides all of your note and icon cards underneath it; there seems to be no easy way to tell the card to move down a layer either.

Hi, thanks for trying MasterPlan out - yeah, you're right that layering currently works by just raising whatever card is clicked last, andthere's no way to make sure it's a "background" card.

However, that is coincidentally the latest feature I implemented that I just have yet to release (partially because I've been very busy + getting sick over the past week), which should be exactly what you're looking for. Dragging cards onto a card will pin them, so clicking and moving the card underneath moves the cards on top until you intentionally move them off. I currently have it implemented for Map cards, but I'll extend it to images as well.

I'll see about putting the next update out this week.

Thanks!

I personally discovered a workaround until then by making a icon and then using the z/line tool to point to it with a sub-page that's off of the map card, and then if I click the map it just gives me the arrows.

It makes me wish that I could draw arrows to arbitrary places without them needing to connect to something, like pointing on my map would be awesome. It's a shame you can't restyle the lines to be less large/obtrusive for this sort of thing, though.