Exploring a hunch

Do you have an idea you are not sure about yet? Try it in a branch. If it goes wrong, you throw the branch away and nothing has happened.

Making a branch

1
Open Branches
Choose Window, Branches.
2
Name the hypothesis
Type what you want to try at Name of the hypothesis, for example “Two Jans are one”.
3
Make the branch
Click New branch. From now on Stambeam works in the new branch.
4
Work as usual
Add people, relink them or remove something. The main line stays untouched.

With Switch to you go back to the main line or to another branch. Every branch remembers its own changes.