Notebooks Quickstart Guide

All tips apply to Notebooks for iPad and iPhone Ed. 2018/03

Add new items - plain text notes - formatted documents - books - voice memos - pasteboard

Lock and unlock Action Menu: sync, compress, move, ...

Set sort order and sort direction with these two buttons

Tap to open books or documents

Search book and its contents

Swipe left to delete, open info and reach more options.

Change settings

Book View

Plain text note

Markdown document

Formatted document

Edit multiple Items (tap and hold to select all)

Info

iPad / landscape: Swipe right to open in second window

Add new tasks (tasks are just documents in Notebooks)

Cancelled

Started

Open, due

Tap icon to toggle task

Set due date and alarm time in task’s info, or tap & hold task icon

Task Lists

Add new note or document. Set a default type in settings

• Tap to edit text • Swipe left/right to move to next/

previous note • Two finger tap for fullscreen • Tap and hold with two fingers to

scroll to the bottom of the document • Pinch & zoom to change text size

(plain text only) • Change font, color and paper type in

info (default are the book’s settings) • Adjust behavior and functionality in

Settings > Write & Edit

• Open the document’s info • Search text • Delete document • Move document • Action menu

Info Bar Automatically hides after a few seconds. Turn it off in settings.

Tap the title to jump to another book or recent document (if enabled)

Document View

Tap and hold to jump back to the top level

The header has been hidden. With keyboard hidden, tap the screen with two fingers to

toggle header

• Extra keys can be turned on and off • Use Tab for layout or indenting lists • The cursor keys move by character or

word (tap / tap&hold) • Adjust extra keys in settings. • Set up multiple sets of extra keys. • Swipe left/right to quickly switch

between sets.

Document View II

• You can convert plain text notes to formatted documents anytime

• You can use Markdown tags, too • A combined HTML document is

special: you edit its plain Markdown text but view its formatted HTML

Live word counter, shows number of words and characters, and optionally the relative position of the cursor. Tap to switch between various display settings.

Tap & hold to change its visibility.

• Set paragraph style • Use the formatting keys for bold,

italics, underline • Text alignment • Numbered and bulleted lists • Outdent/indent sections • Insert images or other objects from

the “More” button • If you have multiple sets of extra

keys, swipe to reveal the next set • You can activate the extra keyboard

keys • Text color and highlighting are

available from the “cut/copy/paste” menu when then keyboard is hidden

Document View III

Formatted documents are HTML and can be displayed on each device. To edit them outside of Notebooks, no special software is required, (although you are welcome to use Notebooks for Mac or PC)