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Slotted notes
Nine permanent notes named after planets that never auto-delete. Switch to them from the Orb or a gesture, jump between them on the planet bar, and on iPad show them beside your ephemeral notes in split view.
Updated for iOS 1.65
Slotted notes
Design Intent: Nine notes that never go away, for the things you come back to every day. Everything else stays impermanent.
What they are
- Slotted notes are nine permanent notes, each named for a Greek god: Hermes, Aphrodite, Gaia, Ares, Zeus, Cronus, Ouranos, Poseidon and Hades. Every device creates its nine on first launch and iCloud sync keeps them in step; on iPhone and iPad the first three start out as the tutorial's trip through the slots.
- They never auto-delete and are never trashed: deleting a slot clears it. Slots cannot be archived.
Switching to Slotted view
- Open the Orb and tap Slotted in the destination bar, or use the Toggle ephemeral/slotted gesture (two-finger tap by default). Pills confirm "Switched to slotted notes" / "Switched to ephemeral notes".
- In Slotted view a planet bar sits above the Orb. Tap a planet to jump to that slot, or drag along the bar to scrub through them.
- Swiping past the first or last slot shows "Icarus, you'll burn." or "Cannot escape Sol".
- New notes cannot be created inside Slotted view unless "New notes jump to Ephemeral from Slotted view" is on.
- With a hardware keyboard, ⌘⌥1 to ⌘⌥9 (or plain ⌘1 to ⌘9, if you turn that on) jump straight to a slot from anywhere, bringing the slots forward if needed. See Keyboard shortcuts.
- ⌘ ⌥ + 1 … 9 Go to slot 1 … 9 (hardware keyboard)
Settings
Split view on iPad
- On a screen wide enough for two notes (any iPad, in either orientation) your ephemeral notes and your slotted notes can share the screen, side by side or stacked. Open the Orb: a split button sits right of the Ephemeral/Slotted toggle. Tap it to split; tap it again for one pane. On an iPhone the button pickers leave Split view, Split direction and Swap main pane out, since a phone can't split; an iPhone Duo keeps them once it has been opened in Antinote, and pressing one while the Duo is closed says to open it.
- While split, the Ephemeral/Slotted toggle decides which pane comes first (left, or top) — the "main" pane. Each pane swipes on its own, and the planet bar lives inside the slotted pane.
- Tapping in a pane makes it the one the Orb's actions, the Quickbar and the indicators act on. Delete asks you to tap in a note first if neither pane has the keyboard.
- Move the divider: press and hold the line between the panes until it lights up, then drag it. Either pane can take up to four fifths of the screen; the position is remembered on this device. An iPhone Duo folded like a book keeps the divider on the fold; open flat, it moves like an iPad's.
- While split, a second chip sits beside the split chip in the Orb: Rotate split turns side by side into top and bottom and back.
- With attachments shown beside the note, each pane has its own rail for its own note, inside the pane; it can take up to half the pane.
- New notes always land in the ephemeral pane, so in split view they are created without leaving the slots.
- Split view, Split direction and Swap main pane are also Quickbar buttons (and so gesture options), and keyboard shortcuts, the same as the Mac's: ⇧⌘T toggles split, ⌥⌘T flips the direction, ⌘T swaps the main pane.
- Narrow the window (Split View multitasking, Slide Over) and the app goes back to one pane; widen it and the split returns. iPhone never splits.
- Each pane uses its full width. The centred reading column of a single full-width note only applies when the app is showing one pane.
Settings
A different look for slots
- Themes and backgrounds can apply to Ephemeral notes, Slotted notes or both, so slotted notes can look different at a glance — and on a new install they do by default (Sandworm in light mode, Sultan in dark). See Themes and backgrounds.