Lesson 2 - Creating Cards
A card can hold way more than plain text, such as
tables, images, checklists, links, even hand-drawn
ink.
In this video, we'll fill a stack with real, useful
cards and format them properly
There are two ways to create a card
From the homepage, click Add New Card
A card editor pops up and you choose which stack it
belongs to from the dropdown at the top
If you're already inside a stack, click Add New
Card
There, it's added automatically, no dropdown
needed
Use whichever fits the moment: homepage for a quick
capture, inside the stack when you're already
working there
Every card has a title area and a body
The toolbar along the top gives you background
color, images, templates, tags, drawing mode, set
as favorite, share, set a card template, and attach
file
Below that is the text formatting bar to set text
as bold, italic, font size, colors, alignment
bullets, checklists, and line spacing
The title bar and body bar have slightly different
tools since the body supports things like tables
and links a one-line title doesn't need
On the right side, you'll see the card menu with
additional functionality
And on the right of a card, you'll see the flip to
back of card option
One quick feature to note when you are in the body
of a card, you can quickly increase or decrease the
size of the text
This is very helpful if you have pasted in a block
of text and want it to look nice on a card
Feel free to explore all the icons on the toolbars
but we'll just show you a few features
To add a table, click the table icon and pick the
number of rows and columns
Then, if you click on the table, a small toolbar
then lets you add or delete rows and columns, color
cells, and toggle a header row
For links, just paste a URL directly onto the card
NoteDex detects it automatically
To add a checklist, just click the checklist icon
Depending on the size of your screen, you might
need to scroll to the right to see all the feature
icons available
Add an image with the image icon, or just paste one
straight from your clipboard
You can copy an image from any webpage and paste it
into the card body
But do make sure you have clicked in the card body
since images can only be put in the body section
Click the image to resize or flip
Do you want a head start on creating a card?
Open Templates for ready-made layouts suitable
either for pen or text
For templates that you can edit with text, click on
Editable Templates and pick a template like a
Kanban to-do
These are basically tables we've formatted for you
for different use cases
You can even turn any card you've built into your
own reusable template
Just click the template icon and it turns blue
meaning it's saved and ready to reuse
You'll then find your own background templates in
the My Template section of the template picker
Every card has two sides. Click the flip icon on
the side of the card to turn it over
Perfect for a question on the front and an answer
on the back
The status line at the bottom always tells you
exactly where you are
Tags help you categorize cards
Click the tag icon on any card and set a tag, or
click Edit Tags to customize your list
Tags can be local to just that stack or global, so
something like to-do or done is available
everywhere across all stacks
Use the dropdown to select a stack or the global
list
You can star a card to favorite it, and every
favorite across every stack shows up in the sidebar
view called Favorite Cards
Click the share icon to share the card
We'll go into this feature in a later video
And you can also attach files to a card using the
attach file icon
You now know how to build genuinely useful cards
that hold text, tables, links, images, and even on
two sides
Next up, organizing all of this across workspaces
groups, tags, and search