DunneNote · Tutorial

Your first notebook and page

Create a notebook, add a page, write some formatted text, and see that it's saved.

Available10 min· Beginner· DunneNote 0.9.2

In this tutorial you'll create a notebook, add a page to it, put a Rich Text canvas on the page and format some text. Then you'll quit and relaunch to see that nothing was lost, even though you never pressed save.

You'll need#

DunneNote installed. See Installing DunneNote.
A folder where you'd like to keep your notebook, such as your Documents folder.

Create the notebook and a page#

Launch DunneNote. With no notebook open, you'll see the notebook picker, with Lost a notebook? on the same screen.
Choose New notebook…, pick a folder, and name the notebook My Notes. DunneNote creates a folder called My Notes.dunnenote and opens it.
Choose New (+) ▸ Page. A new page appears in the notebook tree and opens.
Rename the page: right-click it in the tree (or press Shift+F10), choose Rename, and type Getting started.

Add and format some text#

Choose New (+) ▸ Rich Text. DunneNote confirms with "Rich Text canvas added."
With the canvas selected, press Enter to start typing.
Type a heading line, My first page. Press Ctrl+Alt+1 (Cmd+Alt+1 on macOS) to make it a Heading 1.
Press Enter for a new line and type a sentence. Select a word and press Ctrl+B (Cmd+B) to make it bold.
Start a list: press Ctrl+Shift+8 (Cmd+Shift+8), type three items, and press Tab on the second item to indent it.
Press Escape. You've left the text, and the canvas is selected as an object again.

Move around from the keyboard#

Add a second canvas with New (+) ▸ Sketch. Draw a quick line.
Press Escape to leave the sketch.
Press the arrow keys. The selection moves between your two canvases without entering either of them.
With the Rich Text canvas selected, press Enter to go back into the text, then Escape to leave again.

Check that it saved#

Type a few more words into the Rich Text canvas and, without doing anything else, quit DunneNote.
Launch DunneNote again. Open My Notes from Recent if it doesn't open automatically.
Open Getting started. Your heading, formatting, list and the words you typed just before quitting are all there.

What you've learned#

A notebook is a .dunnenote folder you choose the location of.
A page holds canvases, and New (+) adds them.
Enter goes into a canvas, Escape comes out, and the arrow keys move between canvases.
DunneNote saves as you go. There is no save button.

Next#

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