Notebooks Settings

Default Font & Colors

Set the default font and font size to be used for notes throughout Notebooks. The individual settings for books and notes override this default.

Use Custom colors

When on, you can define the default background and font colors for notes throughout Notebooks. Besides the preinstalled patterns, you can select your own background image or background pattern from your albums.
The individual settings for books or notes override these settings.

When off, Notebooks uses it default patterns and colors. (HTML documents have no background pattern with this setting)

General

Extra Keyboard Keys…

Shows or removes the row of extra key attached to the keyboard. When off, some of the extra keys appear on the navigation bar.

…Convert To HTML

When on, tapping any of the Markdown extra buttons automatically converts plain text to HTML. If this is not desired, automatic conversion can be deactivated with this switch.

Fullscreen Hides Status

When ON, tapping Notebooks’ info bar to switch to fullscreen mode will also hide the gray status bar showing operator logo etc.

Clickable Links

Select which texts should be shown as clickable URLs in your notes. You may choose between numbers, email addresses and links, both or none. When you enable clickable links, notes will be read only. Tap on the text once to make the note editable, tap twice to bring up the keyboard.

Recent Items

Select how many items should be listed in the Recent Items smart book. The default is zero.

Look ahead for Due Tasks

Define if the smart book Due Tasks should list tasks that will become due within the next couple of days. You can also set this from the smart book’s context menu.

Timestamps

Here you may select the time stamp formats that you want to have available in the pop up menu while editing. The sequence in which you select the formats defines the order in which they appear in the menu.

Photo Size

Define the dimension of the photos you take with your camera or import from your albums.

Single Tap for New Note

In book view, the “+” button’s default function is to display a menu on tap, and to immediately create a new note on tap&hold. With this switch the function can be reversed.

Custom Sort: New at Top

With custom sort order selected, new documents, which have not been explicitly positioned in the list, appear at the bottom by default. If you prefer to have them added at the top of the list, turn this option on.

Delete Note after Split

Turn this option on if you want Notebooks to delete the original note after converting it to a task list or splitting it into separate tasks. 

Mark unsynced Notes

When this option is ON, Notebooks will show notes that have been modified since the latest synchronization with a special icon.

Live Word Count

This setting tells Notebooks to count words instead of characters while you are typing.

Dynamic Move&Jump

When selecting Move or Jump, Notebooks shows one single list of all available book by default. For very long lists of nested books, this may be difficult to navigate. So this option lets you switch to a more dynamic list, which allows you to open and close books and keeps the list more manageable.

Use Column View (iPad only)

Select the basic layout of Notebooks: Column view (like in Mail) or Full Screen view (like the XL version of “Notebooks for iPhone”)

Lock Current Orientation (iPhone only)

When ON, Notebooks does not autorotate its display and permanently keeps the current orientation.

Narrow Right Margin (iPhone only)

Notebooks displays text notes with a small right margin; this keeps text from flowing too far to the right, which is a bit easier to look at. If you prefer to use the maximum amount of screen space, turn on this option and Notebooks will not add any right margin.

Contexts

Enable Contexts

Start using context tags throughout Notebooks. When enabled, you have:

1. -an extra section in settings to manage contexts; this allows you to add, rename, delete and reorganize your contexts
   

2. -a new smart book listing all available contexts and their associated books and notes
   

3. -the option to set contexts for books and notes from their info view
   

Manage Contexts

Add, remove and edit the names of your contexts.

Protection

Globally enable or disable protection. When ON, the option to lock and unlock Notebooks and to protect/unprotect books and notes will become available.
More details are available in an extra section.

Import, Export and Sync

iTunes File Sharing

Turn this on if you want to exchange documents with your computer through iTunes. When on, you will find the options Export to iTunes in the context menu of books and in the action menu of notes. For more details, please refer to the section in chapter Import, Export and Synchronize.

Dropbox Sync

Activate synchronization with Dropbox, log in to Dropbox and adjust settings. When on, you will find the option Sync - Dropbox in the context menu of books.

WebDAV Sync

Turn this option ON if you want to synchronize Notebooks with a WebDAV service like Apple’s MobileMe. Before you can start, please add the settings in Change WebDAV Settings.
Starting with version 3.1, Notebooks is able to synchronize moved and deleted books and notes. You need to enable this by turning on the switch Sync Deletes.
When WebDAV Sync is enabled, the books’ context menu contains the option “Sync - <webdav service>”

WiFi Sharing

Turning this on adds the option “Share This Book” to the books’s context menu. You may immediately set a username and password of your choice which need to be entered on the computer from which you want to connect to Notebooks.

SyncDocs

Select whether you want to SyncDocs or not. When ON, import, export and synchronize with SyncDocs will be available as options in menus.

Integration

Print with WePrint

If you have one of EuroSmartz’ printing applications installed (Print, Print&Share or DocPrinter), this switch lets you activate printing from Notebooks. When ON, a note’s action menu will show the option to print.

Send to Things, OmniFocus, Appigo Todo, Firetask etc.

With the corresponding application installed, turning ON this switch enables sending notes (or the selected text) to the that application and creating a new task.

Enable TextExpander

When you have TextExpander touch installed on your iPhone or iPad you can use it in Notebooks by enabling it here. TextExpander works in Plain Text documents and when adding new books or changing the titles of documents in the info view. We are working on providing full functionality for rich text documents, too.