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NoodleTools: Create & Use an Outline

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How to Create and Use an Outline

The right panel of the Notecards screen is used for your outline. It only shows up when you click on the Outline button at the top of your screen.

If you need more space for the outline, click and drag the three dots between the tabletop and outline panels that can be dragged left and right.

How to create items in the outline

At the start, a sample topic and subtopic are already in place. You can delete or edit these if you wish.

When you finish editing, either press Enter or click outside of the edit box to save the changes.

How to add a new topic or subtopic to the outline

Click on the topic previous to where you want to add the new topic.  Click the + button and select Add 'sibling' for a next topic or 'child' for a subtopic.

How to edit/ delete a topic from the outline

To remove a topic from the outline, control click on the item and select edit or delete.

Deleting a topic in your outline will delete all of the subtopics under that topic, so do this carefully!

How to link notecards to topics in the outline

Link your notecards to topics by dragging and dropping them on top of the topic or subtopic heading.

Rearranging  or Removing notecards

Select the notecard you want to move and drag it to the chosen topic or subtopic.  To remove it from your outline, just drag it back to the Notecards section.

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