Bookmarks

Imagine that you have a very big TexNotes Pro file containing a lot of material. There are hundreds, perhaps even thousands of Notes, drawings, pictures and so on. But certain items within this file may have a high priority, such as Notes you use every day. The Bookmark tool helps you locate these prioritized notes quickly.

Everyone uses the bookmarking facilities of a web browser, or a dedicated bookmark manager, to collect various important website addresses, or to keep for future use.

TexNotes Pro bookmarks are very similar to bookmarked web URLs. Instead of bookmarking URLs, you bookmark Notebooks, Notes, Drawings, Paintings and Images within your TexNotes Pro file. Large TexNotes Pro files are very similar to web sites, and can be bookmarked as needed.

To set a bookmark, click anywhere inside a Note (bookmarks mark the complete Note, not individual lines). Then press [Ctrl+D]. You can also use the Insert Bookmark button on the Navigator menu.

If you're working with bookmarks, you'll probably want to display the Bookmarks tab in the Navigator window. If the three Navigator tabs aren't visible, click the More Buttons chevron on the Navigator title bar, and choose Bookmarks.

The Bookmarks panel lists all the bookmarks in the current document (file), and provides six handy toolbar buttons for managing bookmarks:

• Click to Jump to the highlighted bookmark.
• Click to Set a bookmark for the current Note.
• Click to Edit the name of the highlighted bookmark (or click the bookmark a second time).
• Click to Delete the highlighted bookmark.
• Click to Move the highlighted bookmark up and down the list.

The next section explains how to control where the bookmark jumps.

How Bookmarks Work

Bookmarks record the Note and the Window position. When TexNotes saves a bookmark, it keeps track of where the scrollbar is, and stores that position inside square brackets after the bookmark's name (in the Bookmarks tab in the Navigator panel).

This lets a bookmark jump to a particular region of a Note. If you have some very long notes, it may be helpful to provide a bookmark for the beginning, and one or two additional bookmarks for regions further down in the note.

To bookmark a region within a note, simply scroll to the desired position before creating the bookmark. If the Bookmarks tab is open in the Navigator panel, you'll see the approximate line number of the new bookmark.

For more precise locations, use Anchors. These are used to mark individual paragraphs, and can be targets for hyperlinks. (Ctrl-click the hyperlink; and then click the browser-style back button on the main toolbar to return to this Note.)

Example

To add some samples, first locate a suitable item to bookmark. For example, the Note in this file named Quick Start. Go to the Quick Start Note by clicking it in Outline. Select the Navigator Bookmarks tab, and click Bookmark Current Item on the Bookmarks toolbar. That's all. Your bookmark for Quick Start is inserted and ready to use.

When you double-click this bookmark, it takes you to the Note Quick Start. Bookmarks have also been added for the Search and File Notes.

Notice the number placed in square brackets. The Quick Start bookmark displays [34], and the other two [0]. These numbers indicate the cursor position at the time of bookmarking, and effectively make an additional reference point.

These are useful when you want to bookmark a large Note with a scroll bar. If the page is scrolled to the top, the bookmark will show [0]. As the page is scrolled towards the bottom, the bookmarks show a larger number such as [34], [46], and so on.

If you want to have the middle part of a large Note displayed in response to a click on the Bookmark,  position the scroll bar accordingly before inserting the Bookmark.

All the operations of adding, editing, deleting and arranging bookmarks can be managed by using the buttons on the Bookmarks toolbar.

To insert precise reference points within a Note, use Anchors.