Hi and welcome to Notebook!

One question: What kind of documents?

I’ve done it with pdf’s. First, in Preferences/attachments I have “Copy the file into Notebook” and “Show the documents contents, otherwise show its file icon” selected.

Then I drag the pdf into a cell, and there it is – scaleable just like any image and the floating toolbar over the image itself has the pdf page number and a arrow buttons for moving around. I can drag the corner of the image to make it big for reading and shrink it down when I’m done.

While poking around for an answer for you I learned in the help file under Diagrams, Sketches and Handwriting/Annotating PDF Documents with Diagrams and Sketches that NoteBook can create a new page for each page in the pdf with the pdf page as a background to make it easy to annotate. (I with I knew that about three months ago while trying to translate a short German pdf to English.)

I hope I’ve given you at least a partial answer to your question.

Roger

John – I believe what you’d like to do is open up finder and drag & drop (or copy & paste) SEVERAL files (as a Batch) onto a page, into a cell, or on to the a Table of Contents and subsequently view them in NoteBook. I experimented with several types of documents including: txt, pdf, and odf; and tried the following:

1) Dropping documents inside of a cell on the above mentioned pages and was successful at crashing the NoteBook program several times in a row.

2) Dropping documents onto an index page and although they did not paste into individual pages – I instead discovered an image of a 3 dimensional stack of the multiple documents placed directly on the page. However, each doc in the stack still had to be clicked and opened in the respective program.

I do know that this task can be accomplished with the NoteTaker program which I happened to purchase before getting NoteBook as part of a MacUpdate Promo.

You will be interested to know that with the NoteTaker program you CAN drop several files directly onto the Table of Contents, and viola, your documents are copied to separate pages and are completely readable within the NoteTaker program.

(PS Both programs are descendants of the long defunct Millenium Software – I wonder if Circus Ponies can find a way to make this work – see AquaMinds dot com)