Outlining

Indent a block and it becomes an outline: the block and the blocks inside it get bullets.

Top-level writing reads as prose. Prose and outline are the same blocks, shown two ways.

Indent and outdent

• Tab puts the block inside the block above it.
• ⇧Tab takes it out one step. The blocks after it, at the same step, go inside it.
• Enter on an empty indented block also takes it out one step.
• Indenting into a folded block opens it, so you see where the block went.

The bullet

Each block's bullet sits in the left margin. It is the block's handle:

• Click the bullet to open the block as a page of its own.
• Drag the bullet to move the block, and the blocks inside it.
• Right-click the bullet for the block's menu. ⌘/ opens the same menu from the keyboard.

A page reads as a document: its plain blocks have no bullet (point at one and a faint bullet shows, which you can still click, drag and right-click). A block with blocks inside shows its bullet, with a soft glow round it while it is folded; blocks shown inside another block show their bullets too. Press Tab to indent a block and it and the block it goes under both become bullets. You can also make a bullet on its own: type - , or use Turn into. A bullet stays a bullet when its blocks go or when you bring it back out with ⇧Tab; Backspace at its start makes it plain text again. A tagged block shows its tag's icon, or a dot in its tag's color.

What counts is the page you have open: open a block as its own page and its plain blocks read as a document there.

Fold and unfold

• The thin arrow beside a block says it has blocks inside. A folded block shows its › all the time; an open one shows its ⌄ when you point at it. On a phone the arrow always shows. Click it to fold or unfold.
• Or press ⌘↑ to fold and ⌘↓ to unfold.
• ⌃⌘↑ folds a block and every block inside it; ⌃⌘↓ unfolds them all.
• ⌘⌥↑ folds every block on the page; ⌘⌥↓ unfolds them all.
• On Windows: Ctrl+↑ Ctrl+↓ for a block, Alt+↑ Alt+↓ for a block and every block inside it, Alt+Shift+↑ Alt+Shift+↓ for the page.
• A tagged block's icon gets a soft glow when it is folded.
• Fennick remembers what you folded.
• A block with blocks inside starts folded, until you open it.
• Unfolded in place, a block shows its fields first, then its blocks. It shows at most 15 blocks, then “N more blocks · see them all on its page”.

Open a block on its own

Click a block's bullet, or pick Open as a page in its menu. The block's words become the title. Its blocks show below, as an outline. The path above the title takes you back up. A block opened this way keeps every field in view.

Select whole blocks

Select blocks to move, indent, copy or delete them together.

• Drag: press in the empty margin beside the blocks and drag down or up. The blocks inside a selected block come with it. (Pressed in a block's words, a drag selects words instead: see Select words across blocks.)
• Shift-click a block's bullet to select from the block you are in to that one.
• Esc with words selected across blocks selects those blocks whole. Then ⇧↑ or ⇧↓ grows the selection.
• Esc selects the block you are typing in.
• ⌘A selects the block's words, then the block, then every block.

With blocks selected:

An entity that is also used somewhere else is only removed from this page, not deleted. See Deleting an entity.

On a phone, swipe sideways across a block to pick it. See Pick blocks.

Select words across blocks

Press in a block's words and drag onto the blocks below or above, as in a document. The words from where you pressed to where you let go are selected: the end of the first block, every block between, and the start of the last. Shift-click in another block's words, or press ⇧↓ or ⇧↑ on a block's last or first row, to select the same way.

• Type, or press Delete, ⌫ or ⌘X: the words go. The last block's remaining words join the first block, and the blocks inside it come along. The blocks between go, as a deleted block does. One ⌘Z brings it all back.
• ⌘B, ⌘I, ⌘U, ⌘E and ⌘⇧S style all the words selected, as do the buttons above them.
• ⌘⇧H, or the highlight button above them, makes one highlight of all the words, in each block where they are. ⌃⌘H opens its note too.
• ⌘K links them: a web address links every part; a page makes one highlight about that page.
• ⌘C copies them, block by block.
• ⇧ with an arrow grows or shrinks the selection. Esc selects those blocks whole. An arrow, or a click, lets go.

A drag across a picture, a table or a query selects whole blocks. On a phone, words are selected one block at a time.

Move blocks

• ⌘⇧↑ and ⌘⇧↓ move the block one step, among the blocks beside it.
• Drag a bullet onto any block. A mark shows where it will land, above or below that block.
• The block's menu has Move up and Move down.

Move to another page

Send a block, or selected blocks, to another page. Three ways in:

• ⌘⇧M
• Type /moveto, or pick Move to… in the / menu.
• Move to… in the block's menu, or in the command menu.

The list offers Today and Tomorrow first, then pages and entities you changed lately. Type to find another. The blocks go to the end of the page you pick, with the blocks inside them. You stay where you were. One ⌘Z brings them back.

The block's menu

Right-click a bullet, or press ⌘/. It has: Open as a page, View as (see Where views live), Turn into (the block kinds), Duplicate, Paste as copy, Copy link, Move up, Move down, Move to…, No color (on a block a tag colors; see Color), Remove #tag (for each tag) and Delete. A query block has Edit query in place of View as. An entity shown on this page has Open, Copy link, Remove #tag, Move to…, Delete and Delete everywhere. On a phone, the menu from Aa also has Highlight.

At its foot, the menu says who last edited the block, and when. Click it to see that block's changes in the Op Log.