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Navigation
Swipe left and right to move through the note stack, pull past the top or bottom for a new note or the latest one, and reorder the stack from Search.
Updated for iOS 1.65
Navigation
Design Intent: Navigating Antinote should feel like flipping through your short-term memory: one gesture, no lists to scan.
Swipe between notes
- Swipe left anywhere on the note for the next, newer note; swipe right for the previous, older one. A swipe commits once it has travelled about a third of the screen, or on a quick flick.
- Swiping left past the newest note creates a new blank note ("New note created"). If the newest note is already blank you see "Already at latest" instead.
- Swiping right at the oldest note shows "No older notes".
- An empty note is deleted when you swipe away from it. Slotted notes are never deleted this way.
- Locked notes can be swiped past without unlocking them.
- ⌘ + [ Previous note (hardware keyboard)
- ⌘ + ] Next note (hardware keyboard)
Go to latest
- Jumps to the newest note from anywhere in the stack: Orb menu › Latest, swipe right on the Orb, or pull up past the bottom of a note (the defaults for those gestures).
- Pills: "Jumped to latest" or "Already on latest".
- Go to first: press and hold the Orb menu's Latest tile and it becomes First, which jumps to the oldest note in the stack ("Already on first" when you are there). Hold it again to get Latest back; the tile remembers your last choice. The Orb swipe, the pull-up gesture and ⌘1 always go to the latest.
- ⌘ + 1 Go to latest (hardware keyboard)
Pull past the edges
- Pull down past the top of a note to search; pull up past the bottom to go to the latest. A badge grows as you pull and lights up when releasing will fire it.
- Both are reassignable in Settings › Gestures — see Gestures.
- A pull needs a finger or an Apple Pencil on the screen. Scrolling past the edge with a trackpad or mouse never fires one.
The page on iPad
- A wide iPad pane keeps its text in a centred column with wide margins, so lines stay a comfortable length to read instead of running edge to edge. The column appears whenever a pane is about 1000 points or wider: every iPad in landscape, and the 13-inch iPad in portrait. An 11-inch iPad in portrait, split-view panes and iPhone keep the plain margins. The margins are still part of the note: tap or swipe them as you would the text.
Where the cursor goes
- By default a note you swipe to does not take the keyboard until you tap it. Turn on "Focus the note after switching" to start typing straight away, and "Focus the note when Antinote opens" to open with the keyboard up.
- A note you create yourself always opens with the keyboard up.
Settings
Reordering the stack
- Open Search with no query to see the stack newest first. Drag a note (list or grid view) to move it in the stack. On a wide iPad window Search is a sidebar beside the note — see Search.