# Using Maps

The map view shows all the notes inside a container. You can arrange notes and containers as you like, perhaps placing related notes close together.

Map views provide great scope for expressing tentative, preliminary, or provisional relationships among your notes, and for discovering emergent structure. Storyspace provides a host of visual dimensions — shape, color, borders, badges, and many more — that you can use to express the properties of notes.

To place a note inside another note or inside a container, simply drop it inside another note or on a container.

To create a note in a map view

- double-click where you want to place the note, OR
- select a note and press Return (↩) to make a new note,

> OR

- choose Create Note… (⌘K) from the Note menu,

> OR

- right-click where to want to place the note and choose Create Note… from the menu

To rename a note in map view

- select it and ⇧⌘-Return

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- select it and press Function-Return (fn↩)

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- click and hold the note for a moment, and edit the note’s name in the map.

### Moving Around In Maps

Use the hand cursor to move the window. Simply click and drag the map background.

Use the horizontal and vertical scroll bars to move around in a view window. Use the scroll wheel, or two-fingered drag on the trackpad, to scroll the window.

To scroll directly to a specific note, simply type the first characters of the note’s name.

- Subtitle, Caption, and Text
- Text In Maps
- The Prototype Tab
- Links
- Adornments
- Badges
- Cleanup
- Containers
- Display Expression