Notes
Every course has a sheet of its own to write on. It is yours rather than the model's: nothing is ever written into it for you, and nothing you write is sent anywhere except your own instance.
Where It Is
A tab sits at the right edge of the course screen. Opening it slides the sheet over the page, so the video keeps playing while you write.
The same sheet has a page of its own, reached from the course sidebar, from the icons on a notebook card, or from the results after a quiz. The page is the drawer given more room, not a read-only copy: it is the same editor, and both are the same sheet, so what you write in one is what you read in the other.
Saving
There is no save button. Writing stops, and a moment later the sheet is written to the server. A chip says which of three states it is in:
- Saved: what you see is what is stored.
- Saving: a write is in flight.
- Save now: a write is owed. Press it rather than waiting, if you like.
Leaving the page mid-sentence does not lose the sentence. A write still counting down when the screen goes is spent on the way out rather than cancelled.
Markdown as You Type
The sheet reads light markdown and styles it while you write, rather than rendering it somewhere else. Type ** and the text between them thickens; the ** itself fades once the pair is closed, so the marks stay visible enough to edit and quiet enough to read past.
The Markdown button at the foot of the sheet opens the key:
| Write | Get |
|---|---|
**b** | Bold |
*i* | Italic |
~~s~~ | Struck through |
# to ##### | Five heading levels |
- | Bullets |
1. | Numbered |
> | Quote |
`c` | Code |
[t](u) | Link |
--- | Divider |
Nothing else is interpreted. There is no table, no image and no embed, on purpose: a notes sheet is for the sentence you would otherwise lose.
Saving It Out
Two buttons, the same pair the cheatsheet has:
- PNG: the sheet as an image.
- PDF: the sheet as A4 pages.
Both are drawn on Parcourse paper, and both are drawn light whichever theme you are reading in, since a saved sheet is read wherever it ends up.
What Happens to It
A sheet belongs to one course and one person. Two people on the same instance working through the same video keep separate sheets.
Deleting the course deletes its sheet with it. Regenerating a course keeps the sheet, since what you wrote about a video is still about that video however the sections come back.
A sheet is capped at roughly two hundred thousand characters, which is far past the point where a notes sheet has become something else.