Hyper Plan Changelog

What's new in Hyper Plan 2.10.5

Mar 23, 2021

This release fixes some user interface issues in v2.10.4 and adds a dark user interface option. This release is only available for Mac. You should upgrade to this release if you:
have an M1 Mac; or
have installed v2.10.4 for Mac; or
wish to use Hyper Plan in dark mode on Mac

New in Hyper Plan 2.10.4 (Feb 26, 2021)

New in Hyper Plan 2.10.3 (Apr 9, 2020)

New in Hyper Plan 2.10.2 (Mar 31, 2020)

New in Hyper Plan 2.10.0 (May 1, 2019)

You can now output your plan to HTML format using File>Export>Table>HTML.
You now have a choice of the default color palettes used to visualize card text and numeric properties. There are 12 text color palettes and 14 numeric color palettes, including some aimed at customers with color defective vision. As previously, these are just default colors and can be overridden for any property.
If you have the Cards pane set to a stored view and the plan is updated by another Hyper Plan instance (on your computer or elsewhere on the network) your stored view is maintained. This means that you can have multiple Hyper Plan instances with different views of the same plan.
Hyper Plan now refreshes just after midnight so that the change in date is automatically taken account of, e.g. for cards that are colored by date.
The location of the plan file has been moved to the front of the >Main window caption. This allows you to more easily select the correct window when you have more than one instance running. If the Cards pane is set to a stored view and visible, then the stored view name is also shown.
Fixed an issue where dragging a card to a different column (row) but the same row (column) could affect the row (column) value for date or numeric properties.
Carriage returns in the Notes field are now preserved in the Cards pane tooltip when you hover over the card.
Tooltips are now shown when you hover over the Notes or Hyperlinks columns in the Table pane.
When cards are exported, the connections are encoded using zero-based indexing. However when only selected cards were exported the indexing didn't take account of the missing cards. This is now fixed.
Fixed an issue in the Table pane where coloring rows by property didn't show Notes and Hyperlinks column text in the correct contrast color.
Previously Hyper Plan stopped at the first blank line when importing a CSV file. It now just ignores blank lines.
Fixed an issue that could temporarily cause an invalid layout in the Cards or Charts pane when Date order was changed in the Preferences.
Fixed an issue where the Documents/Backup folder was being continually re-created when it wasn't being used for backups.
The free trial has been extended from 7 (non-consecutive) days to 14 (non-consecutive) days.
There is now a more modern 'Fusion' user interface style, which is the new default. The old style is now named "Windows". You can change interface style in the User interface style drop-down in the Preferences window.
From Hyper Plan v2.9.4 the size of the Main window was not being correctly restored when Hyper Plan re-started. This is now fixed.
In the New Plan and Connection Types window you had to 'enter' (e.g. Tab away from) changes to text field before clicking OK. This is now fixed.
In v2.9.5 Ctrl+click was not recognized as equivalent to right click. This is now fixed.
You can now add and remove connections to/from a card in the Connections tab of the Card Properties window. This makes it easier to cope in large diagrams with lots of connections.
When cards are laid out by connectivity you can now navigate between then using Ctrl (Windows) / Cmd (Mac) + arrow key.
Tooltips are now shown when you hover over the Connections columns in the Table pane.
Fixed an issue in the Table pane where coloring rows by property didn't show Connections column text in the correct contrast color.
Hyper Plan now uses anti-aliasing when zoomed out to improve the appearance of connections (previously it was only used when zoomed in).
Added the 'Technology tree' example plan

New in Hyper Plan 2.9.0 (Mar 14, 2018)

Home and Professional Editions:
There is a new Notes pane. You can use this to record general information about your plan.
You can now set the values of a text property to be automatically sorted alphabetically. Previously you had a click Sort Alphabetically each time you added a new value. Properties are not automatically alphabetically sorted by default.
You can now right-click on the column header of the Table pane to access a context menu.
You can now right-click on the row header of the Properties pane to access a context menu.
Each property now has associated an associated Notes field.
There is now a Browse (Windows)/Choose (Mac) button in the Add Hyperlink and Edit Hyperlink windows, so you can more easily link to local files.
You can now display a prefix before (e.g. "$" or "£") and/or a suffix after (e.g. "€", days" or "Kg") numeric property values, when displayed in cards and when totalled. The prefix and suffix are set in the Add Property and Edit Property windows.
You can now choose Quarterly as the bin size for date properties
The Date format in the Preferences window previously always defaulted to DD-MM-YYYY It now defaults to MM-DD-YYYY if your computer's system locale is set to the USA and DD-MM-YYYY elsewhere
The Connections column in the Table pane and the Connections tab in the Card Properties window are now only visible in the Professional editon of Hyper Plan
Previously it was difficult to change the case of a property value in the Add Card and Edit Card windows (eg from "YES" to "yes"), due to auto-completion This has been fixed by making the auto-completion case-sensitive
Double-clicking on the header of a text property in the Cards window now opens the appropriate Edit Property window Previously it created a new card
The default for Cards>Appearance>Card spacing has been increased from 0 to 10 Increasing card spacing helps to make connections more legible in the Professional edition
Totals in the Cards pane are now not shown using exponents, unless they are more than 10 digits long
Hyper Plan now warns you if any date values in your plan are not compatible with the date format currently set in the Preferences window This is checked when you open a plan and when you change the date format in the Preferences window You can disable the warning
The Set cell color by drop-down in the Appearance section of the Table pane was not correctly updated when the property order was changed This is now fixed
An issue related to the use of relative dates (eg "+7") in default values is now fixed
Previously Hyper Plan would crash if you imported a csv file via the command line and then selected to import it into the Current plan This is now fixed (it automatically creates a new plan)
You can now preserve card column (row) during dragging by holding down the Ctrl key and dragging to the same column (row) in a different row (column) In v270 this was done with the Shift key But this feature was broken by using the Shift key to add connections in v286
A more informative error message is now shown if you try to open an empty (0 size) plan file
Hyper Plan was previously slow at calculating bins for numeric properties with very large ranges This is now fixed
We have added some more example plans
Professional Edition only:
You can now layout by connectivity in one direction and a property in the other. This allows you to easily partition the connectivity by status, team, priority or any other property for easier comprehension. For example to create a 'swimlane' diagram with a sequence of tasks partioned by role. Hyper Plan can automatically layout 1000s of cards by connectivity and property. This was very chellenging to get right!
Arrow routing has been improved to reduce the number of arrows crossing cards when the Cards pane is laid out by a connection type.
The speed with which cards are automatically laid out by connectivity has been improved
We have made some improvements to the aesthetics of how arrows join boxes
Previously it was hard to see when faded connections were selected Connections are now unfaded when selected
Previously you could drag cards in the Cards pane at the same time as adding connections This is now fixed

New in Hyper Plan 2.6.0 (Mar 8, 2017)

Adds improvements and bug fixes.
In the New Plan Properties window:
You can now select how a property will initially be displayed using the new Display as column.
Add a new property with the Add Property button.
Press the Tab key on the last cell to add a new property.
Note that you will only see this window when creating a new file if Suggest properties for new plans is checked in the Preferences window.
You can now open a new Main window by selecting File>New Window (Ctrl+Shift+N on Windows/Cmd-Shift+N on Mac).
You can now optionally show the status bar using the Show status bar check box in the Preferences window.
In the status bar you can now show the total for selected cards in the Cards or Table panes. Check the Total selected cards in status bar option in the Edit Property window of the properties you wish to display.
Totals are now shown in the Cards pane in a tabular format for text and date properties.
Previously colors for Numeric properties were linearly interpolated between the minimum and maximum values. There is now an option to logarithmically interpolate between the minimum and maximum values. This shows small differences more clearly.
Right-clicking in the Table pane now shows a context menu. Click on the row number to select a row.
There is now a Default card color field in the Preferences window. Use this to set the color used when Set card color by is set to .
A Delete Card button has been added to the Edit Card window.
You can now press the Tab key in the last cell of the Properties pane to add a new property.
Pressing the Tab key in the last cell of the Table pane now works correctly if the rows are sorted.
Checking whether another program has changed the current file is no longer an option in the Preferences window. It is now always checked.
Previously commands were not always enabled correctly after filtering in the Table pane. This is now fixed.
Previously colors were not always correctly updated in the Table pane when adding or deleting a card. This is now fixed.
Previously creating a new plan could sometimes be slow if Suggest properties for new plans was checked in the Preferences window. This is now fixed.
Previously Hyper Plan sometimes crashed when importing CSV with very long column (property) names. This is now fixed.
You are now warned if you import a CSV file with non-unique column names or column names longer than 30 characters.
Various minor usability improvements.
Previously double-clicking on a Hyper Plan file to start Hyper Plan could sometimes cause a crash. This is now fixed.
Previously in basic filtering mode the 'cancel' icon was shown at the wrong end of the edit field. This is now fixed.

New in Hyper Plan 2.5.3 (Dec 20, 2016)

New in Hyper Plan 2.5.2 (Nov 11, 2016)

New in Hyper Plan 2.5.0 (Nov 4, 2016)

New in Hyper Plan 2.4.1 (Sep 27, 2016)

New in Hyper Plan 2.4.0 (Sep 20, 2016)

You can now choose whether to align row header text vertically or horizontally in Cards pane row headers. Vertical alignment will generally use a lot less space.
You can now choose whether to show the property name in Cards pane row headers. This should make printouts easier to understand. You may need to increase the Header size if you show the property nmae.
You can now choose to have column and row headers 'float' as you zoom in. This makes it easier to see which columns and rows you are looking at without zooming back. You can also choose to make the headers transparent during zooming.
You can now use 'intelligent' date values anywhere you can enter a date, not just in the Quick add field of the Add Card window. For example, you can set the default value of a date property to 'today'. Note that this only works for properties where you have explicitly set the type to 'Date'. Hover over a date value field for more information on allowed formats for date entry.
You can now enter '+N' for a date value, where N is the number of days in the future. For example '+7' means a date 7 days in the future and '+0' means today. Note that this only works for properties where you have explicitly set the type to 'Date'.
Date values now use the locale specific abbreviations for months of the year and days of the week, rather than just taking the first 3 letters. For example, on Windows, the abbreviation for Monday is 'Lun.' using a French locale and 'Mo' using a German locale. Hover over a date value field for more information.
Hyper Plan saves changes when the application is idle. It now waits for a longer idle time for larger plans (which take longer to save).
The gradient effect aesthetics have been improved for the vertical header in the Cards pane.
The maximum value for Card aspect ratio in the Appearance section of the Cards pane has been increased from 3 to 5.
Previously if you moved a card a very small amount in the Cards pane, it didn't snap back into position. This is now fixed.
The alignment of spin boxes in the left pane of the Cards pane has been improved.
Hyper Plan was tested with Mac OS X 10.12.

New in Hyper Plan 2.3.0 (Jul 5, 2016)

New in Hyper Plan 2.2.1 (Jun 10, 2016)

New in Hyper Plan 2.2.0 (Jun 7, 2016)

There is now a Properties pane where all the properties in the plan are displayed
You can change property names, types, default values and ordering in this pane
You can also click on an Edit button to access the Edit Property window
You can now color cells in the Table pane according to property values
You can show a color for the property of each cell or you can color each row by one selected property
The Table tab now has a left pane
The table filter controls have been moved to this pane
You can now change the font family and size in the left pane of the Table tab
You can now find and replace text in card values, links and/or notes using Edit>Replace
Check Match case to make matching case-sensitive
Click Select Matches to highlight the matching cards/rows in the Cards or Table panes
You can now customize the toolbar buttons and icon size in the Toolbar tab of the Preferences window
You can now add a new property to all cards by clicking the Add Property.. button in the Add Card or Edit Card windows
You can now add a new link to a card by clicking the Add Link.. button or by right-clicking on the Links field and selecting Add.. in the Add Card or Edit Card windows
You now have the option to show cards with rounded corners using the Card shape field in the Appearance section of the Cards pane
The default name of the first property in a new plan has been changed from "Name" to "Title" (a property with a name called "Name" was too confusing!)
Previously the Table pane was not always updated after a card Notes field was edited
Previously there was an issue with the sizing of the table in the Show Properties section of the Cards pane
Previously cards were sometimes incorrectly redrawn after overlays were hidden in the Cards pane
Previously re-ordering properties could cause issues with the Charts pane
Tab ordering issues in the Add Card and Edit Card windows are now fixed
Previously the contents of the Filter tab in the Cards pane was not always correctly saved
Previously Edit>Select All selected rows hidden by filtering in the Table pane
Various other minor fixes and usability improvements

New in Hyper Plan 2.1.1 (May 4, 2016)

New in Hyper Plan 2.1.0 (Apr 28, 2016)

You can now choose to store your Hyper Plan Preferences in a hyperplan.ini file in the same folder as the executable instead of in the System Registry (Windows) or ~/Library/Preferences/com.oryxdigital.HyperPlan.plist (Mac OS X). Storing your Preferences in a .ini file can be useful if you have Hyper Plan installed on a portable drive, such as a USB memory stick. If you install the Hyper Plan Windows .exe and Mac OS X .app into the same folder, they can both use the same hyperplan.ini file to store their Preferences. If you are using a .ini file, recently opened files are stored with relative paths, where possible. For more details see Can I run Hyper Plan from a memory stick?
You will see a Don't show this warning again check box for various warning and information windows (e.g. the warning window that appears when you delete a property). You can turn these prompts back on in the new Prompts tab of the Preferences window.
When you open a .csv file you will now be prompted for whether you want to create a new plan file or read the contents of the .csv file into the existing plan file.
You can now set the Charts pane to use the same filtering as the Cards pane by checking the Use Cards pane filtering check box in the Filtering section of the Charts pane.
You can now Hide zero value bars and Hide charts with no bars using the check boxes in the Display section of the Charts pane.
You can now choose whether to show all colors or only visible colors for the color legend in the Charts pane.
You can now add a new card by holding down the Alt key and left-clicking in a cell on the Cards pane.
If you move or resize the Add Card, Edit Card, Add Property or Edit Property windows, the new position and size is remembered next time you display the window.
You are now warned when newly added cards will be hidden by filtering in the Cards pane. Previously this was only for edited cards. You can disable the warning window (see 2 above).
You can now access hyperlinks directly from the card right-click menu.
In the Add Card and Edit Card windows a date picker button is now shown next to properties where the property type is Auto and a date type can be inferred from the property values. Previously the date picker was only shown for properties with the type explicitly set to Date.
Previously if you had a date or numeric property shown as columns and you dragged a card to a different row (but the same column) you would be prompted to enter a new date/numeric value. Hyper Plan now assumes that the value remains unchanged. Similarly for rows.
The appearance of the overlay icons has been improved.
Previously grand totals were shown in the Cards pane when cards were arranged only in rows, but not when they were arranged only in columns. This is now fixed.
You can now right-click on a column and check/uncheck Show this column if empty. Similarly for rows. This is quicker than adding the value to the list of pre-defined properties.
Previously adding a stored view when Show total for was set to crashed Hyper Plan. This is now fixed.
Previously it was possible for add and delete icon overlays to appear close together. This is now fixed.
Previously a crash could occur under certain obscure circumstances after deleting a property. This is now fixed.
Previously opening badly formed CSV files could cause a crash. This is now fixed.
The names of some of the left hand pane sections have been shortened, e.g. from Filter Cards to Filter.

New in Hyper Plan 2.0.2 (Mar 17, 2016)

New in Hyper Plan 2.0.1 (Mar 11, 2016)

Cards are now edited in a pop-up (modal) window, instead of being edited in the Left pane of the Cards pane. This is a significant change to the existing user interface and may take a bit of getting used to. But we have made the change on the basis of customer feedback and consulting with a usability expert. We think it is a significant improvement.
You can now delete selected cards using Del (Windows) or Backspace (Mac), rather than Ctrl+Del (Windows) or Cmd+Backspace (Mac). We are still supporting the old behaviour in this release, but this is deprecated and may be removed at some point.
There is now a Charts tab. This can be used to show bar charts of properties.
There is now an 'Intelligent' text scaling mode. This allows you to see more text as you zoom in.
The visual appearance of cards has been improved.
The layout of text in card 'tool tip' windows has been improved.
There is now a Left Pane toolbar button for toggling the Left pane open and closed.
You can right click on 1 or more selected cards in the Cards pane to edit, duplicate, zoom in on or delete them.
You can now optionally show Edit and Delete overlay icons as you hover over a card. You can toggle these icons on and off using View>Icon Overlay or Ctrl+. (Cmd+. on Mac). If you delete a card accidentally you can Edit>Undo it. The overlay icons are not shown if you zoom right back.
You can now add footer text using the Footer field in the Appearance section of the Cards pane. Use the Footer size field to control the text size.
You can now save and load settings in the Appearance section. We provide default appearance themes 'Default (light)' and 'Default (dark)'. Click the + button to save the current appearance. Saved appearances are available across all plans on the same computer.
You now have the option to save the current appearance settings when you create a stored view. If you don't store the appearance, then the stored view will use the current appearance settings for font, background color, legend etc.
15. You can now total the number of cards (rather than a property value) in rows, columns and cells by selecting from the Show total for drop-down list in the Layout/Color Cards section. This is particularly useful if you have WIP (Work In Progress) limits for rows, columns or cells.
You can now drag an image, hyperlink or document onto the Cards pane (away from any cards) to create a new card containing the image or hyperlink.
You can now add hyperlinks to cards by dragging hyperlinks or files straight onto existing cards.
You can now drag an image from a browser straight into Hyper Plan. This may not work with all browsers. We have tested it successfully with FireFox (Windows/Mac), Internet Explorer (Windows) and Safari (Mac). It does not work with Chrome (drag the image to the desktop and then from the desktop to Hyper Plan).
You can now import images from a .csv file. The location of the images must be listed in a column called images (case is unimportant). You should use the full location (path) of the image file, e.g. on Windows: C:\images\myimage.png.
You can now optionally show notes and hyperlinks icons on cards. Show these icons by checking Show notes icon and Show hyperlinks icon in the Show Card Properties section of the Left pane.
You can now zoom in on currently selected cards using the Zoom To toolbar button, View>Zoom To Selected or or Ctrl+/ (Cmd+/ on Mac).
You can now use Ctrl+Left Arrow,Ctrl+Right Arrow, Ctrl+Up Arrow and Ctrl+Down Arrow to change the card selection in the Cards pane (use Cmd on Mac). The Up Arrow and Down Arrow keys change row when you move from cell to cell, while the Left Arrow and Right Arrow keys change column when you move from cell to cell.
When you create a new plan it now just contains the property 'Name' by default. To re-enable the old behaviour of showing the New Plan window with suggested properties, you need to check the Suggest properties for new plans check box in the Preferences window.
Previously you could use Ctrl+L to show the Left pane in the Cards pane and Ctrl+Alt+L to close it. Now you can use Ctrl+L to toggle it open/closed. Similarly for the panes that make it up (e.g. use Ctrl+B to toggle the Layout/Color Cards pane open/closed). This is a lot easier to remember. We are still supporting the old Alt behaviour in this release, but this is deprecated and may be removed at some point.
The visibility of the Left pane is now remembered between Hyper Plan sessions.
The size of the page exported to PDF is now remembered.
The magnification tool has been changed from circular to a rounded rectangle. This is a better fit with the shape of the cards.
You can now optionally show drop shadows for cards by setting Drop shadows to On in the Appearance section of the Left pane.
If you drag a card near to the edge of the Cards pane while zoomed in, it will now start to scroll after a short delay.
The Card properties window is now scrollable if there are too many properties to fit the size of the window. This means there is no limit on the number of properties.
Previously, when zoomed in, you could hold down the Space key and drag on the background to scroll the Cards pane vertically or horizontally. You now also get this behaviour when dragging on a card or row/col header. Make sure you press the Space key before clicking.
The names of any images are now exported to CSV files in an Images column.
Printing and PDF export now centers the printout on the page.
Tool tips are no longer shown when hovering over cards when the magnifying cursor is being used.
Previously you could choose in the Preferences window whether to scroll or zoom when you rotate the mouse wheel and hold down the Ctrl key (on Windows) or the Alt key (on Mac) to invert the chosen behaviour. You can now also hold down the mouse wheel to invert the behaviour (e.g. scroll instead of zoom).
Previously you could display a pop-up menu by left or right clicking on a row or column header. You now have to right click.
You can now show an expert tips page by selecting Help>Expert Tips.
Previously Hyper Plan did not always filter cards immediately when their property was changed (it only did so if the property was used for layout or coloring). This is now fixed. Thanks to Ziad Y. and David S. for reporting this.
Previously Hyper Plan sometimes crashed when deleting properties if there was advanced filtering. This is now fixed. Thanks to Benoit N. for reporting this.
Previously stored views with very long names could cause the Left pane to resize very large. This is now be fixed. Thanks to Ziad Y. for reporting this.
You can now continue to use Hyper Plan after your trial has expired, but you still won't be able save, print or export your plan without buying a license key.
You can now undo Swap X/Y in a single operation.
'Bubble' help windows are now hidden/moved if the user interface item they are pointing to is hidden/moved.
You can now delete using either Del or Backspace keys.
There is now an 'Expert tips' page accessible from Help>Expert tips.
Previously You couldn't cancel changes in the Color window. This is now fixed.
Previously there were sometimes issues with hyperlinks to files in Mac OS X 10.10 and 10.11. This should now be fixed.
You can now use the following variables in the Title and Footer fields:
{x_property} : The Cards pane Arrange columns (X) by property.
{y_property} : The Cards pane Arrange columns (Y) by property.
{cell_property} : The Cards pane Arrange in cell by property
{bg_color_property} : The Cards pane Set card color by property
{highlight_color_property} : The Cards pane Set highlight color by property.
{total_property} : The Cards pane Show total for property.
{show_property} : The Charts pane Show property.
{by_property} : The Charts pane By property.
{per_property} : The Charts pane Per property.
{view} : The name of the current stored view.
{filename} : The name of the current plan file.
{filepath} : The path (location) of the current plan file.
{timestamptext} : The timestamp in text format.
{timestampiso} : The timestamp in ISO format.
{timestampsystemshort} : The timestamp in short system format.
{timestampsystemlong} : The timestamp in long system format.
{computername} : The name of the current computer.
{username} : The name of the current user.
We now provide 35 stock images you can use in your plans. To add a stock image:
Select Edit>Edit Images....
Click Stock Images....
Check the images you wish to include in your plan.
Click OK.
Click OK.
These images will now be available for all cards in your current plan.

New in Hyper Plan 1.6.1 (Oct 28, 2015)

Hyper Plan is now much faster at calculating the card layout. This is particularly noticeable when you have 1000+ cards. On one particularly large plan the we tested the layout calculation time was reduced from 10 seconds to 0.1 second.
Previously text was scaled to fit cards. You can now optionally set a fixed font size for all cards using the new Font size fields in the Appearance section of the Cards pane. If there is too much text for the space available in the card, then the text will be truncated.
You can now control whether the color legend displays the colors of cards hidden by filtering.
If you hover over a cell in the Cards pane a small '+' will appear at the bottom right of the cell. Click this to add a new card to this cell.
You can now right click on the Links field to get a menu which allows you to Paste links or Clear all links.
You can now preserve the rows or columns of cards during drag and drop using the Shift key.
You can now choose whether to show totals for cells, rows and columns or just rows and columns using the new in cells check box in the Layout/Color cards section.
Some applications create CSV files delimited by ';' (semi-colon) instead of ',' (comma) characters - despite the C standing for comma (duh). Hyper Plan now tries to handle this when importing CSV files.
You can now control how long card animations take using the Animation duration field in the Preferences window. Set it to 0 if you don't want animated transitions.
You can now turn off the text in the toolbar by unchecking Show text in toolbar in the Preferences window.
The advanced filtering of cards previously ignored any filter with no value. This meant it was difficult to, for example, hide cards with an empty value for a particular property. This is now fixed. Thanks to David B for reporting this.
The number of plans recorded in File>Recent Files has been increased to 10.
The maximum header size in the Cards pane has been increased.
Hyper Plan now gives you the option to rename associated stored views when you rename a property. Thanks to George R for suggesting this.
Previously creating a new plan and then cancelling the New plan window still created a new plan. This is now fixed. Thanks to various people for reporting this.
Previously Hyper Plan recalculated the card layout when notes or other fields not involved in the layout were updated. This is now fixed. Thanks to Rodrigo for reporting this.
Previously pre-defined property values were not always filtered correctly. This is now fixed.
Previously the card layout sometimes had empty rows. This is now fixed.
Previously the total boxes could overlap for some card aspect ratios. This is now fixed.
A crash sometimes occurred when deleting a property and then changing stored view. This is now fixed. Thanks for Benoit for reporting this.
Hyper Plan now remembers if View>Card Tool Tips was checked last time it was run. Thanks for Benoit for the suggestion.
Previously Hyper Plan could crash if importing a .csv file with a carriage return inside a field value. This is now fixed. Thanks to Ziad for reporting this.

New in Hyper Plan 1.5.1 (Jul 27, 2015)

Hyper Plan now supports images in cards. So you can add images of colleagues and customers, logos, icons or any other type of image to your cards. Just drag and drop the image file onto the card.
Alternatively click the button next to the Image drop-down list to show the Images window and add images there. You can also delete images and edit image names. Images are listed in alphabetical order of name.
Once you have added images to your plan, you can select one or more cards and set the image in the Image drop-down list in the Edit Card Properties section.
ou can control the visibility, size and position of images in the Show Card Properties section.
Some web browsers (e.g. FireFox) allow you to drag images direct from a web page.
PNG, JPG and BMP format images are supported. Images larger than 128x128 pixels are scaled to 128x128 pixels inside Hyper Plan (the original image is unchanged).
You can now choose a property to be of type Automatic, Text, Numeric or Date. If the type is Automatic, Hyper Plan will treat the property as Text, Numeric or Date depending on the values it has.
If you set a property to have type Date, a date selector button will appear for that property in the Edit Card properties section of the Cards pane. When you click the button a pop-up calendar will appear, making it easy for you to select a date.
You can now display a color legend in the Cards pane. This can be very useful when you are printing or exporting your plan. Set the Color legend drop-down list in the Appearance section to Bottom or Right to show the legend below or to the right of the cards.
Previously cards were laid out in a cell of the Cards pane by the order in which they were created. You can now specify a property to order them by using the Arrange in cell by field in the Layout/Color Cards section. For example, if you have a 'Priority' property you can order them by their priority.
You can now choose whether the main window menu, toolbar and tabs appear in full screen mode using the Show menu+toolbar+tabs in full screen mode check box in the Preferences window. The default behaviour is now to hide them. Press the Escape key to exit full screen mode.
The Add Stored View window now allows you to choose from existing view names when you add a new stored view. This makes it easier to modify existing stored views.
Hyper Plan dynamically colors text on cards black or white, depending on how dark the card is, in order to maximise contrast. Previously it didn't always make a good choice (e.g. black on saturated blue). We have now improved this.
Previously exporting plans with non-Latin characters to .csv caused problems. Hyper Plan now encodes these files in UTF-8 (on Windows) and UTF-16 (on Mac OS X).
A TXT option has been added to the File>Export menu. This is particularly useful for exporting your data to Excel on Mac OS X, as Excel on Mac doesn't handle UTF-16 encoded .csv files very well, but can open UTF-16 encoded .txt files.
Previously clicking on the zoom slider in the Cards pane (rather than dragging it) didn't work. This is now fixed.
Previously some columns or rows could get hidden even when show empty bins was checked for a property. This is now fixed.
Previously hyperlinks were not duplicated when you duplicated a card. This is now fixed.
There was a bug related to deleting selected filters in the Filter cards section in Advanced mode. This is now fixed.
There was a bug related to the handling of pre-defined property types for for Numeric and Date properties. This is now fixed.
Fixed an issue in the Add Property window that could cause a crash.
Other minor bug fixes.

New in Hyper Plan 1.4.1 (Jul 4, 2015)

New in Hyper Plan 1.4.0 (Jun 26, 2015)

New in Hyper Plan 1.3.0 (May 13, 2015)

New in Hyper Plan 1.2.1 (Mar 17, 2015)

The ability to search cards has been added to the Cards pane. Cards that contains text matching the search are selected. Check the zoom to selected check box to zoom in on the selected cards.
You can now change column/row order in the Cards pane by dragging and dropping the columns and rows (for text properties only).
Clicking on the column or row header of a text property gives you the option to:
Edit the property (as previously).
Add a new column/row either side.
Rename the column/row.
Delete the column/row.
You can now make a copy of the current plan file by selecting File>Duplicate File.... You will be given the option to load the duplicate.
You can now choose colored star, diamond and triangle shapes in Show Card Properties, in addition to the existing circle and square shapes.
You can now change how cards are laid out within a cell using the Cell layout drop-down list in the Appearance section of the Left pane.
View>Hide Left Pane and View>Show Left Pane can be used to hide and show the Left pane in the Cards pane. You can also use the keyboard short Ctrl+L/Ctrl+Alt+L (Windows) and Cmd+L/Cmd+Alt+L (Mac OS X).
Keyboard shortcuts have been added for the Filter field in the Table pane and for the Left pane sections in the Cards pane. Hover over the controls to see the shortcuts.
shortcuts
In the Preferences window you can now choose how to back-up your plan:
Check Backup changes every to make a time-stamped .hpb copy of your plan at the chosen interval in the chosen folder (e.g. myplan_2015-03-09T10-05-59.hpb). A backup will only be made if you have changed the plan in that time. It won't overwite any previous backup files.
Check Backup every save to make a .hpb copy of the previous version of your plan, every time you save, in the same folder as the plan (e.g. myplan.hpb). The previous backup for that file will be overwritten each time.
Card selections have now been made more obvious, with a thicker border and you can now change the selection color in the Appearance section.
The aspect ratio (width:height ratio) of cards can now be changed in the Appearance section.
The scaling of text to fit inside cards has been improved.
Kerning (letter spacing) of text inside cards has been improved.
Hyper Plan can now detects if another application (e.g. another Hyper Plan user on your network) has changed the plan file you have open, and gives you the option to re-load it. You can disable these checks by unchecking the Check for changes to the open plan by other applications check box in the Preferences window. On Windows, only plans opened as read-only can be modifed by another application.
You can now hide the Quick add field in the Add Card window by checking the Hide 'Quick add' field check box.
When importing .csv files with 'notes' or 'links' columns, the column headers could be incorrect in v1.1.2. This is now fixed.

New in Hyper Plan 1.1.2 (Feb 16, 2015)

Added hyperlink properties to cards. Just drag and drop a link or file into the Links box for a card. Click on a link to activate it.
Added filtering to the Table pane.
Added Edit>Duplicate... to duplicate selected cards/rows.
Added Edit>Select All to select all visible cards/rows.
Added pinch zoom gestures to the Cards pane.
Card Notes are now shown in the Table pane.
CSV import can now handle Windows, Mac and MS-DOS format CSV files (which have different line endings) on both Windows and Mac.
When importing a CSV filel, the first column named 'Notes' (case insensitive) will be imported into the card Notes, rather than a creating a new property called 'Notes'.
Card Notes are now exported to CSV format.
Properties are now deleted using the Delete Property button in the Property window.
There are now Move to top and Move to bottom buttons in the Ordering tab of the Property window.
Multiple terms (separated by spaces) can now be used in Basic filtering in the Cards pane.
You can now display a title in the Cards pane using the Title field in the Appearance section of the left pane. Use the Title size field to set the font size.
In the Preferences window you can now choose whether rolling the mouse wheel forwards will scroll up/down, zoom in, zoom out or do nothing. Hold down the Ctrl (Windows)/Alt (Mac) key while moving the mouse wheel to do the opposite.
In the Preferences window you can now set how sensitive zooming is. Sensitivity can vary from x1.05 to x2.0 per zoom step.
If you are zoomed in to the Cards pane and no cards are selected you can hold down the Space key and drag the 'canvas'.
The automatic check for updates now runs every 7 days (it was every 3 days previously).
Check for updates, Subscribe to newsletter and FAQ page can now all be accessed from the Help menu.
If a plan is created from a CSV file, the default plan name file now is based on the CSV file name.
More text is now displayed in tooltips.
warning message is now shown in the Cards pane if all the cards are hidden by filtering.
When no plans have previously been opened, you are now given the option to open a CSV file at start up.
Redraws are faster when updating a property for many cards in the Cards pane.
Previously new plans were always created by default in Documents/HyperPlan. New plans are now created by default in the last folder that a plan was created or opened in.
Previously the Mac version of Hyper Plan automatically deployed sample plans into Documents/HyperPlan when a new version was first run. It now asks before doing this.
Fixed an issue with drop-down lists in the left pane 'stealing' focus during mouse wheel scrolling. This seemed to be particularly a problem with Apple 'Magic Mice'.
Fixed a bug that caused changes to stored filters not to be included in Undo/Redo.
Fixed a bug that caused problems when selecting cards with leading or trailing white space in property values.
various minor usability improvements.