Insert New Page

Deb — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 22:09:27 +0000

I’d like my text on a note page to wrap to a new page so that I don’t have to scroll down, rather that there is a “natural” page break when my typing takes me to the bottom of a page. I’ve tried edit > insert > new page with no luck. Suggestions?

Kirby commented

Kirby — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 23:04:18 +0000

NoteBook doesn’t work that way. Each page is endlessly long. If you think about it I think you’ll see why this is so: the outlines are expandable and collapse-able,and there are many, many ways to vary the length of page necessary for the currently shown information (including, say, making the window less wide). In essense, the total length per page changes constantly. If NoteBook had only one page per Notebook (like a word processor), then it could dynamically change the number of “screen pages” to accommodate the page and what is currently show. But NoteBook allows tens, hundreds, of pages. You can see where this would get complex and confusing.

That NoteBook allows many pages, and keeps each page’s information on that page, is, I think you’ll find as you use NoteBook more, a comforting and useful feature.

You can and should use as many Notebook pages as you want. My suggestion is put different information on each one, and let then get as big (long) as the topic requires.

CareyB commented

CareyB — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 21:59:51 +0000

Nacho commented

Nacho — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 13:17:41 +0000

I agree with Deb.
I think it would be a hugely useful feature to have the ability to insert page breaks or natural page “wrapping.” I’ve ended up with either hugely long pages where I am always working on the bottom couple cells or endless amounts of topics that have created hundreds on needless topics/dividers in my table of contents. I find this to be very annoying ‘glitch” that is causing me to use the software less and less.

Also helpful would be clipping service for Entourage and keyboard shortcuts that match OSX (e.g. spacebar for quicklook)

ptram commented

ptram — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 15:00:50 +0000

What you put in a notebook page, and how long it is, depends entirely on the user and how he/she organizes the ideas. NoteBook can do nothing to make pages too short or too long. Kirby also explained why automatic wrapping would be unlikely to be implemented, and I beg to agree.

Yes – I would like a Divide Page command/shortcut, similar to the Divide Cell one, to insert manual breaks when it is time to split a page’s content (the current Page Break command seems only useful for export, at least I think). But doing it by adding a new page and cutting/pasting text is no huge effort.

Nacho commented

Nacho — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 11:06:45 +0000

What I was thinking about was simply a new way to view really long pages – not a by inserting a “new page” as such (and thus creating a new entry in the ToC) but by allowing a command to be inserted by the user that allows you to view by flipping rather than by scrolling down.

I’m an old school journalist and I won’t pretend to have a clue about what can or can’t be programmed into the software. I like the idea of reading long pages I have created just as I would in my manuscript notebooks – by flipping pages. In any case, I enjoy using Notebook and commend the authors on a nice program.

ptram commented

ptram — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 14:06:06 +0000

Nacho, maybe adding a Page View option could work to host all customer’s preferences. Choose Endless, and you see the page as it is now; choose Paged, and a set of ‘virtual’ pages will be created on the fly (maybe a little slower in refreshing the screen, when you collapse of expand some topics).

Yogi commented

Yogi — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 07:09:24 +0000

I’ve commented elsewhere in this forum on the issue. I like that idea as well.

yebdox commented

yebdox — Sun, 11 Jul 2010 06:02:01 +0000

Has there been any progress on this feature? I’m a new user, and while I cannot claim at all to be fluent with NB, I would feel much more organized if I somehow had the option to wrap automatically to a new page as text, clippings, etc filled a standard page size.

In working on a list recently that was a simple tabbed list (of tunes for a new band I’m in, (with comments on key signatures, arrangement notes, etc) I went to print and realized there was no inherent text wrap ala standard word processing. The lack of a page set up is awkward for printing (i.e, I don’t think there’s a way to print headers, at least that relate to a particular page number that is generated by the text wrap.) It also makes for jumping/scrolling around a bit more than I would like, given that newer entries are towards the end, as someone else commented.

Could this not at least be an option, for those of us who would like to keep notes that can be formatted and printed like a standard word processor?

yebdox commented

yebdox — Tue, 12 Oct 2010 16:30:27 +0000

Back here after a few months absence… I take it this is a non-issue with the developers? Can anyone offer me a solution to this problem? I haven’t used NB much as a result. I think it’s a powerful program, but without the option for this functionality, I may as well just use Pages for what I need. At least with Pages, I can still embed videos and audio, as well as graphics to get what I need, but this lack of support for pagination is something I don’t understand…

I am getting the idea that what makes NB useful to some (many?) is exactly why it is limiting to me. I haven’t had time to find other ways to put it to use, as this feature lack is a stopping point for me, with what I had hoped would be a powerful and useful program.

Luis Carral-Dumont commented

Luis Carral-Dumont — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 02:11:54 +0000

yebdox – youre sooo right. Its completely useless for taking notes if you want to print them out to study – Also, everything you annotate moves around every time you reopen a notebook making annotating or placing ANY kind of arrow, scribble etc into your notes useless and very distracting seeing that they just migrate to random places on the page. Ive even had them “magically” appear in far away pages that have no relation with the comments they contain. Its hard to believe this was made for Mac given the complete randomness of the interface – Ive had to redo ALL my notes BY HAND (talk about wasted hours) just to get away from this thing until someone from customer service can answer/solve a single of these multiple bugs – still waiting to hear back….