Kanban boards and list pages
Kanban boards
Type kanban in the palette and choose New kanban board. A note opens as a board with three columns.
With the mouse
- + Add a card opens a card to type in.
Enteradds it and opens the next one;Escstops. - A double click rewrites a card or a column title in place. A card emptied this way is removed.
- The
+on the right adds a column. - Pick a card up and it follows the pointer, while a dashed slot opens where it would land: between two cards, or at the bottom of a column. Held near the edge of the window, it scrolls the board.
- Click a card's box to tick it.
With the keys
| Key | Action |
|---|---|
| Arrows | go from card to card, to a column's title, to + Add a card, and to the + of a new column |
Alt + arrows | carry the card up, down, or into the next column |
Space | tick the card |
Enter, F2 | write the card |
Delete | remove the card; on a title, the column with its cards |
Ctrl + Z | undo the last gesture, right on the board |
A card being written is a real line of text: arrows, word by word with Ctrl, selection with Shift, Ctrl + Backspace, copy and paste, a click to place the cursor. The same goes for the palette and a cell of a CSV table.
Columns narrow to fit the window.
In the file, the note stays plain Markdown, in a common Markdown kanban layout: one ## heading per column, and one task per card. The key kanban: true in its front matter is what makes it open as a board. Typing that key into a note leaves you in the text.
The button at the bottom right, left of the copy button, shows that text, and comes back to the board.
List pages
Right click a folder in the tree, or a tag in the tags panel, then Show as a list. Its notes become the rows of a table, and the keys of their front matter (author:, rating:…) its columns.
- Filter: type to filter the rows.
author:austenlooks in one column only.Escclears. - Sort: click a column title to sort by it, again to reverse.
- Open: click the name of a note.
- Edit: click any other cell to rewrite it.
Enterconfirms,Escgives up. Only that key changes in the front matter of the note: it is added if it was missing, removed if you empty it. Nothing else in the file changes.
A folder dragged from the tree onto a pane, or a [[Folder]] link when no note has that name, also opens as a list page.