# Product Update: Taking Visual Thinking to the Next Level

> Making a hybrid tool between networked note taking and mind mapping is not an easy challenge!

- Address: https://scrintal.com/blog/product-update-taking-visual-thinking-to-the-next-level
- Blog post by Ece Kural, published by Scrintal
- Published: 2022-02-01
- Topics: Product Updates, Visual Thinking, Startup, Product, Productivity

Making a hybrid tool between networked note taking and mind mapping is not an easy challenge! We’d like to thank all our users who helped us in this challenge, and provided valuable feedback.

For the past two weeks we were as fast as lightning and shipped many new features and improvements.

Check out what we did 👇

### Attach PDF files to cards
We thought why leave the platform to read a PDF? Now you can upload PDFs with one click, open them, take notes, extract quotes, make connections, and see everything visually on your desk!

Check out our latest tweet to see flexible PDF reading in action 👉 [Get a sneak peek](https://twitter.com/scrintal/status/1487843390360276993?s=20&t=VNa-h0DiF7FfBFELHCzYSA).

### Watching videos and taking notes have never been easier!
To create the most flexible workspace, we made embedding Youtube, Vimeo and Twitter links as simple as copy-paste. Take a look at our latest video to see how you can watch videos and take notes at the same time.

[Watch the video on YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m-ImdfXrYxM)

### Add images to cards!
Visual thinkers requested adding images to the cards and we delivered. You can upload any image to cards or simply paste image URL. Similar to PDFs, and embedded links, you can simply extract the images from cards and place anywhere on your desk.

This simple yet powerful addition to Scrintal gives a customisable glance and you can see everything you need without a context switch.

It’s like suddenly your knowledge management tool transforms into a mood board!

![We combine networked note taking and visuality](https://scrintal.com/__l5e/assets-v1/b17f11b3-0101-4515-b232-38f8a645389f/product-update-taking-visual-thinking-to-the-next-level-1.webp)

*We combine networked note taking and visuality*

**Colourful cards**

You can now change the colour of the cards to cluster, categorise or simply memorise better. This was a highly requested feature and now it’s here!

![Colours make seeing the clusters much easier](https://scrintal.com/__l5e/assets-v1/c1db601d-0736-4d89-ab46-44a8953ffc05/product-update-taking-visual-thinking-to-the-next-level-2.webp)

*Colours make seeing the clusters much easier*

Finally we brought the following features upon user feedback:

- Selecting multiple cards on desk and tagging
- Block quote formatting
- Maximising cards to write longer forms

If you’d like to try Scrintal and unleash your visual thinking with networked notes, [sign up here and let us know](https://scrintal.com/)!

Don’t take our word for it, though, [check out what our users say](https://typeshare.co/anderssporring/posts/scrintal---innovative-notemaking-app)!

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