Wall Crazy Help

Wall Crazy is an app to help you graphically organize and analyze information. You can

The rest of this page provides basic information about using Wall Crazy.

Wall: The basic element of a Wall Crazy is the Wall. Walls can be created, sized, deleted, and embedded within Items (Walls inside Items). Each Wall can use one or more themes to place Items and Threads on the Wall.
Theme: A theme is a named collection of pre-defined templates of Items and Threads. Some simple themes are included, but it is possible to create, edit, and delete themes and templates.
Template: Both Items and Threads have templates. Templates are grouped into Themes. Each Item or Thread placed on a Wall inherits properties (color, shape, line thickness, etc.) from a Template. Templates can be created, deleted, or edited in the Theme editor.
Item: An Item is a collection of information placed on the Wall. Item types are define in themes. Once placed, Items can be resize, moved, deleted, and more.
Thread: A Thread indicates a relationship between two or more Items. Threads are defined in themes. Different Thread types are used to describe various relationships between Items.

Below is the basic layout of Wall Crazy.

Annotated Wall Crazy

To add an Item to a Wall

Adding an Item to a Wall

Threads are added by

Adding a Thread to a Wall

The main menu is as follows:

Help: Show this or other contextual help
Contact us: Will send an Email to support@swaystairs.com if Email is configured for use on your device. The draft Email will include the version of Wall Crazy in use, the device type in use, and the version of iOS on the device. This information is helpful for debugging purposes, but you can remove some or all of it before sending the Email.
Privacy policy: Shows a document describing privacy in Wall Crazy. In short, no information is gather or shared.

Change text color: Changes the text color of the selected Item or Thread. If no Items or Threads are selected, it will change the text color for all Items and Threads. The default to either white or black depending on the Wall color, but any color can be selected. There is an option to update all of the template titles and descriptions as well.
Zoom to fit: Resize and center the Wall so that everything can be seen
Change author: Change the author attributed to new additions or modifications to existing elements of the wall

Themes: Manage the themes: create, import, edit, switch to, export, or delete.
Walls: Manage the Walls: create, import, edit, export, or delete.

Print: Print the Wall, full size or on a single page. Optionally include text based analysis of the Wall.
Share: Share an image and the textual analysis of the current Wall
Wall analysis: See the Wall analysis in a form where portions can be copied to be included in other documents

ⓥ 1.0 (527), © 2022-2024: This is the current version and build number of Wall Crazy as well as the Copyright date(s)

Tap: Select or deselect an Item or Thread
Double tap: To edit the information selected for display on the Item or the description of the Thread
Double click on a Mac
Double tap on theme title: Open the theme manager
Double click on a Mac
Double tap on theme Item or Thread: Open the theme editor with that Item or Thread
Double click on a Mac
Two finger tap: Add or subtract from the set of selected Items and Threads
On a Mac, use a shift-click
Long press (Item or Thread pin): When the Item changes appearance, or the Thread becomes a dashed line, drag to move the Item or Thread pin. If multiple Items/Threads are selected and the long press is on a selected Item or Thread, all of the selection will be moved.
Long press on theme Item: Add an Item of that type to the Wall; long press and drag to place the Item
Two finger drag: Use a two finger draw to select multiple Items and/or Threads within a rectangle on the Wall
On a Mac, hold the shift key down while you click-drag the mouse.
Pinch on Wall: Zooms in or out. More precise Wall zoom control is possible using Wall Info, ⓘ
Use the control in Wall Info on a Mac
Pinch on an Item: Scales the size of the Item. When Items are selected, a resize control is also available for more precise sizing.
On Mac, use the resize control
Drag on Wall: Scrolls through the Wall
Click and drag on a Mac

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