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Controlling connection points with magnets

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Controlling connection points with magnets

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- [Instructor] We started to map out our content for our local archiving project, and now we want to start making some connections. Which types of content have which types of media associated with them? As we know, the line tool is going to be useful for this in OmniGraffle. I click it and I click the shape and I want to connect video, but you see right away I have a problem. I have my words inside my quote, unquote bucket or shape but I want to connect personal archives to video, not this disconnected or just to the shape itself. So let me delete that line and I'm going to show you something new called magnets. And you see I've expanded my toolbar up here to reveal some more tools, including this magnet tool. I'm going to give that a double click for persistent use. And briefly, magnets are like anchors. They create specific spots on a shape to connect lines to. So what I want to do is carefully add magnets to…

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