History, versions and the recycle bin
Undo and redo
⌘Z undoes and ⇧⌘Z (or ⌘Y) redoes. Every change is one step, whether it's a piece of typing, a format, a moved note, a stroke, a new page or a whole Replace All. Notr keeps the last 100 steps, and fewer when they are very large.
- Typing is committed after a short pause, so a burst of typing is one step. While you're editing a note, ⌘Z first undoes within the note; once you format the note, undo goes back through the page's history, so the format is undone first. Edit › Undo and Redo in the menu do the same as the keys.
- Undo and redo keep your view: the theme, zoom and layout don't change, and you stay on the current page if it still exists.
- History lasts for the session. It is not saved when you quit.
Page versions
A version is a named snapshot of a page that you keep.
- History › Save Version saves the current page as a version. A page keeps its 20 most recent versions.
- History › Page Versions lists the versions with their dates. Choose one and confirm to put its title, notes, ink and paper back on the page. Restoring can be undone, and the page's other versions are kept.
Versions are saved in the database and in .notespace backups. Duplicating a page
doesn't copy its versions.
The timeline
History › Timeline (⇧⌘H, or View › Page Timeline) shows the page as it was earlier. A bar along the bottom has a strip with one step per moment, oldest on the left and Now on the right; saved versions are marked in purple. Click or drag along the strip, or press ← and →, and the page shows that moment, with the time and what it was above the strip. Notes outlined in green have been added since, in red removed since (shown where they were), and in amber moved or edited since. The page can't be edited while you look.
Restore this version puts the page back as it was then, as one change that ⌘Z undoes. Close, Esc, or running any command closes the timeline.
The moments are the page's saved versions and automatic snapshots, which Notr takes on its own:
- when you open a page, and when you leave a page you changed;
- every five minutes or so while you edit a page;
- never when the page is the same as its last snapshot.
Snapshots from the last day are all kept; for the 30 days before that, the last one of
each day; older ones are deleted. They are kept in the database beside your notebooks
(pictures in them stored once, however many snapshots show them), not in .notespace
backups. If an import or a permanent delete takes a page away and you undo it, its
history comes back too, even if another Notr window started meanwhile; snapshots of
pages that have been gone for more than a day are cleared the next time Notr starts.
Recent edits
History › Recent Edits (or Order in the page list) lists the current section's pages by when they were last changed. Choose it again to return to the section's own order.
The recycle bin
Deleted pages go to the recycle bin rather than disappearing: pages you delete, and the pages of sections and notebooks you delete. It holds up to 2,000 pages.
History › Recycle Bin lists them, newest first. Choose one to put it back at the end of the section it came from, or of the first section there is if that section is gone. A restored page comes back as a top-level page, not as a subpage.
Restoring brings back the page, not the sections or groups that were deleted around it.