Lesson 1 - Getting Started

This is NoteDex. Think of it as a digital box of index cards that's smarter, faster, and a lot harder to lose. In the next five minutes, you'll go from a brand-new sign-in to your very first card. Let's get started. On the NoteDex sign-in page, click Sign Up or Log In if you're returning. They land you in the same place. Pick how you want to sign in: your existing Google, Microsoft, or Apple account, or a dedicated NoteDex account with just an email and password.

One tip that saves a headache later, whichever you pick, stick with it on every device. Mix Google on your laptop with Microsoft on your phone and you'll end up in two different accounts with your cards nowhere to be found. Sign-up takes seconds and your seven-day free trial starts immediately. No credit card required. The first time you log in, NoteDex walks you through a short welcome tour.

Click Next to breeze through it or Skip to start. One screen worth pausing on, it asks if you're on a touchscreen device. Answer honestly. It decides whether your mouse drags cards or scrolls the page. Before you touch anything, here's the one idea that makes NoteDex click. Everything lives in three layers.

A workspace is the big-picture area of your life: home, work, or study, for example. Inside a workspace are stacks, think folders or notebooks, one per topic, and inside every stack are cards, your actual notes, styled just like a real three by five index card with a front and a back. Workspace, then stack, then card. That's the whole system.

This is your homepage, the stacks view for whichever workspace you're in. Across the top, switch workspaces, share what you're working on, open the AI assistant, add a card or stack, search, and sync. Down the left is your quick-access sidebar archive for stacks you've tucked away, favorites and recent for cards you use often, and settings at the very bottom. We'll come back to all of these later in the series.

Let's make something. Click Add New Stack. A new stack window appears where you give your stack a name and also create an image for it. Let's do that so you can see. It takes a few seconds for the image generation. Once finished, click the newly created stack to open it.

Then click the default new card, type a title, write a few lines in the body, and hit the save icon. That's it. You've created your first stack and your first card. That's the entire foundation of NoteDex. Sign in, understand workspace, stack, card, and you're off.

If you ever want to replay this tour, click the support icon in the sidebar. Next video, building out a full stack of cards: formatting, images, tables, and more. See you there!