Writing and formatting

Text containers

A page's text lives in text containers, boxes you place anywhere below the page header.

A container grows to fit its text as you type. Notr keeps what you type as you go: a short pause (under half a second) commits the text to the page's history, and the page is saved shortly after.

Inside a container the editor works as on the rest of the Mac: arrow keys, ⌥ and ⌘ with arrows, Shift to select, double-click for a word, triple-click for a line, ⌘A, ⌘C, ⌘X, ⌘V, and input methods and dead keys. ⌘Z undoes typing within the container; once there is nothing left to undo there, ⌘Z undoes the page's history. Tab inserts four spaces.

Formatting

Formatting applies to the selected text while you're editing a container. With no selection, or with the container selected but not being edited, it applies to the whole container.

The fonts offered are the system font, Helvetica Neue, Arial, Avenir Next, Georgia, Times New Roman, Palatino, Menlo, Courier New and Chalkboard SE. Pages written with NoteSpace's Windows fonts show them in the nearest Mac font: Segoe UI, Open Sans and Calibri in the system font, Cambria in Georgia, Consolas in Menlo.

Paragraphs and styles

Alignment, bullets and numbering always apply to the whole container.

To-dos

Home › To Do Tag turns the selected text container into a to-do with a check box, or back into plain text. With nothing selected it adds a new to-do. Click the check box to tick it; a ticked to-do is struck through.

Search can list open or completed to-dos across all notebooks.

Tags

Important (★) and Question (?) on the Home tab add or remove a tag on the selected container. Tags show to the right of the container. Find Tags lists every tagged note and to-do, in all notebooks, and opens the one you choose.

Links

Insert › Link (⌘K) asks for an address, which must start with https://, http:// or mailto:. The selected text becomes a blue, underlined link; in an empty container the address itself is inserted as the link. Links are kept in HTML exports and in .notespace backups.

Dates, times and symbols

Insert › Date, Time and Date & Time type the current date or time at the cursor. Insert › Symbols asks for any characters (such as ✓ → ★ © Ω π ∑ ± ∞) and types them. If no text is being edited, Notr edits the selected text container or adds a new one.

Dividers

Insert › Divider adds a horizontal line below the lowest note on the page.

Templates

Insert › Templates creates a new page in the current section from a template:

Paper

View › Page Setup sets the page's paper: Plain, Rule Lines, Grid Lines or Dot Grid, and a Page Color.

Word count

Review › Word Count shows the words and characters on the page (text and table cells), and how many note containers and ink strokes it has.