The Notes Space

All about the Notes space

By default all Outlinx pages open to the Notes space. The icon for the Notes space looks like a note page and it's in the center of the bottom page navigation menu. You can tap those icons to move between the Notes space, Media space, and Comments space.

Creating & Customizing Notes

Give your pages a title. You can also add emoji's to make them a little more interesting. Change your title anytime just by tapping on the title and editing the text.

Tap anywhere on the Notes area to open up the keyboard and keyboard toolbar. The keyboard is a regular touchscreen keyboard. The keyboard toolbar lives above the keyboard. This toolbar is where you can find the buttons to add images, videos, links, timestamps, break lines, bullet lists, number lists, and to stylize your text. Customize your Notes so they work best for your purposes.

Tip: if you tap on the Notes area and the keyboard toolbar doesn't open, that means you don't have editing permissions for the page. This can happen for a couple reasons: 1) You're not signed in to an Outlinx account. 2) The page is owned by another user who turned the setting "Allow anyone to edit" to off.

Adding Images & Videos to the Notes Space

Add images & videos thru the menu in the keyboard toolbar. There are two ways to add images: 1) by using your camera to capture a picture thru the app. 2) by picking an image from your phone's photo library. If you use your phone's camera to take a picture it will automatically get saved to the photos app on your device, but first you do have to give the app permission to do so on your device.

There are three ways to add videos: 1) by using your camera to capture a video thru the app. 2) by picking a video from your phone's photo library. 3) by adding a link to a YouTube video. Uploaded videos must be 150MB or less, and you can only upload videos to an Outlinx page if the page is linked to an Outlinx code. If you add a link to a YouTube video it can be any length, and the page doesn't have to be linked. If you use your phone's camera to capture a video it will automatically get saved to your devices photos app, but first you do have to give the app permission to do so on your device.

You can delete images & videos simply by placing the cursor after it, and tapping the keyboard backspace button. In other words, you delete images & videos the same way you delete text. When you delete an image or video it is removed from our servers forever.

Adding Links from URLs to the Notes Space

Add URL links thru the menu in the keyboard toolbar. There are two ways to add URL links to the Notes space: 1) insert a website thumbnail link. 2) insert a text link. For both methods simply enter a URL into the field.

The website thumbnail link option will automatically generate a thumbnail image and add it to the Notes area. Use this option if you want a visual thumbnail to go with the link. Not all links generate a background image for this thumbnail. When background images aren't available we'll use a purple placeholder.

The text link option just adds a simple text link. You can also enter custom text for the link if you want to simplify it. Text links will appear purple in the Notes space.

Editing the Notes Space

There are a few things to know about editing the Notes space. If the Notes icon in the bottom menu bar has the pencil then you are able edit it. If the pencil is not there that means you don't have permission to edit this note page.

To edit the Notes space, assuming you have the permission, simply tap anywhere on the page to open up the keyboard and keyboard toolbar.

You'll always have permission to edit any Outlinx page that you create. If you open an Outlinx page that you didn't create, you may or may not have permission to edit it. The owner of the page can choose if they want to allow others to edit the page in the ellipses menu.

Media Limit for the Notes Space

You can only add 5 images, videos, or thumbnails (aka media) directly to the Notes space. This is a current technical limitation. In the future we'd love to remove this limitation. If you want to add lots of media you can add it to the Media space.

Autosave Feature

After initially saving an Outlinx page you'll notice the "Save" button is no longer there. This is because your page is being automatically saved as you make edits. You don't need to take any action to save your page edits.

Notifications for Page Edits

If you're sharing an Outlinx page with other users, you can be notified anytime there are updates to a particular page. To enable these notifications just tap the ellipses menu for the page and set "Notifications for Page Edits" to on. Or set this to off to disable these notifications.

When there's a new notification you'll see a red dot (badge) on the Notifications space icon. Also, if you go to the Notifications space you'll see a list of all notifications in order from newest to oldest (top to bottom).