NoteCard Manual
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NoteCard at the core is a text editor and offers all the features you have come to expect in OS X.

Contents

  1. Basics
  2. Plain and Rich Text
  3. Preventing editing
  4. Lists, Links and Tables

Basics.

When you select a card its text area will become active and allow you to start editing text by typing, copying/pasting and drag and drop. Cards in NoteCard are scrollable as well so you're not limited to the size of the card for content.

Plain and Rich Text.

NoteCard offers two modes for text: Plain and Rich text. You can change the mode of any card any time by using the Make Rich Text and Make Plain Text items in the File menu respectively. By default you can set which mode to use in the preferences.

Plain text cards can not contain images, features (like lists, tables and links) or styled text besides the default font you set in the preferences. This mode is useful if you want to prevent styling changes during editing (by pasting styled text for example) or otherwise enforce a consistent look for the entire card. The styling options in the Format will not be available when editing plain text cards.

Rich text cards can contain images, lists, links, tables and any form of styled text (including pasted HTML from web pages). The styling options in the Format menu will be available when editing rich text cards.

When opening plain text cards in Reader the card will assume the default Reader font as defined in the preferences. However, rich text cards always follow their styling. For this reason plain text cards are a good way to standardize the appearance of your cards while editing in and out of Reader.

Preventing editing.

You can prevent the contents of cards changing by using the Prevent Editing item in the Format menu.

When a card is preventing editing a lock button will be drawn in the lower left-hand corner of the card.

Lists, Links and Tables.

Rich text cards can add: lists, links (to web pages) and tables into the text by using the corresponding items in the Format menu.