Listr and saved lists

Listr keeps your notes, links, saved nodes and saved branches together. It is available beside the canvas and inside the creative workspaces, so you can find the same account list while drawing or making music.

Capture or search in one bar#

Choose Listr in the canvas's adaptive side panel, or in Pixl Studio or Glob Studio, and use Capture a thought or paste a link. On a phone, use Show Feed to bring the full-screen panel back, then choose Listr. Typing filters your list. Pressing Enter, or Add to list, saves what you typed as a new entry. This means Enter is a capture action, not a command to open the first search result.

• A thought becomes a note. Its first non-empty line supplies its title.
• A bare HTTP or HTTPS address becomes a snippet.
• An address on the first line followed by a passage keeps that passage with the snippet.

Use Shift+Enter for a new line. Escape clears the bar. When a save succeeds, the bar clears. If it reports a failure, check the connection and try again before assuming the entry was kept.

For example, type “Try a blue roof on the village” and press Enter. It becomes a note. Paste https://glob.design on the first line with your own reading reminder below it to keep a link and its accompanying text.

Filter and sort#

The bottom row’s icons have the labels All, Notes, Snippets and Nodes. Their names and counts are available in hover hints and accessible labels.

Images, Pixls, joined pictures, palettes, tracks and other moving media use Media. A saved link remains a snippet even if the destination happens to be a video or image.

Sort switches between Newest first and Oldest first for the entries at the top of Listr. Inside a folder, entries stay in the order you arrange them. Search and counts apply to the full matching list, while scrolling loads more entries.

The footer’s unsorted count refers to entries not recorded as placed on a canvas. Placing an entry keeps it in Listr and can add a Placed link; it does not move the entry out of the list.

Folders#

Folders keep entries together in Listr. They are private to you, they can hold other folders up to eight levels deep, and they show only in Listr, never on a canvas. You can have up to 500 folders, and a folder's name can be up to 80 characters.

With All selected and nothing typed in the bar, Listr shows your folders first, then the entries that are not in a folder. Select a folder's arrow to open or close it; an open folder shows its folders and entries beneath it, one step in, and an empty one says Empty folder. Listr remembers which folders you left open in this browser. On a phone, tapping a folder opens it on its own; use Back, or a name in the path above the list, to return.

To make a folder, right-click empty space in the list and choose New folder. It appears at the top as Untitled folder with its name selected, so you can type a new one straight away: Enter keeps what you typed, and Escape keeps Untitled folder. Right-clicking an open folder's Empty folder line makes the new folder inside it.

Right-click a folder, or focus it and press Shift+F10 or the Menu key, for its menu:

• New folder inside makes a folder within it.
• Rename opens its name for typing. You can also press F2 on a focused folder.
• Move to… lists Listr and every folder by its path. A folder can't go inside itself or one of its own folders, and nothing can go deeper than eight levels.
• Move out moves it up one level.
• Move up and Move down change its place among the folders beside it.
• Delete folder removes the folder but none of its contents: its entries and folders move up one level. When it holds something, Listr first asks, for example “Delete Recipes? Its 3 items move to Listr.”

Each entry's menu has Move to…, Move out when it is in a folder, and New folder with item, which makes a folder where the entry is and puts it inside, with the name ready to type. Inside a folder, Move up and Move down change the entry's place.

You can also drag. Drop an entry on the top or bottom edge of an entry inside a folder to place it there, or hold it over the middle of a folder until the folder is marked, then drop it in; a closed folder held under the pointer opens. Hold an entry over the middle of another entry until it is marked and drop it to put both in a new folder, named and ready to type. Folders drag the same way. Menus do everything a drag does, which is the easier way on a touch screen.

Typing in the bar, or choosing Notes, Snippets or Nodes, lists matching entries from every folder together; an entry in a folder shows that folder's name beside it.

If a move can't be made, Listr says why, such as Folders go 8 deep at most. or You have 500 folders already., and puts things back where they were. That folder change could not be saved. Try again shortly. means the change didn't reach the server.

If your folders can't be read, Listr tries again on its own. If they still can't be read, Your folders could not be loaded. Try again shortly. shows above the list, with Try again; your entries still show meanwhile, all together.

Collections you made before folders existed are now folders at the top of Listr, with the same name and their entries in the same order.

Save a node#

Right-click an eligible canvas node and choose Save node, or use Save node to Listr in the toolbar. Dragging a node into Listr uses the same save action.

The saved node appears under Nodes with its title and current readable appearance. Saving it again can say Already in Listr. A bookmark does not copy the original node into a new independent drawing or note.

If the target can no longer be read, the row can say This node cannot be read now. A saved entry does not override the node’s access or availability.

Save a branch#

Right-click a canvas node and choose Save branch to keep an independent copy of that node and its descendants. Find it under All or Nodes. The tree opens expanded, with indentation showing its hierarchy. Use a chevron to collapse a subtree; collapsing the top row leaves just that row.

Drag the top row onto a writable canvas to restore the whole branch with its hierarchy, links and relative positions. Drag a child row to copy that child and everything below it. Every drop creates independent nodes: editing the placed tree leaves the saved tree and the original unchanged. A saved entry that contains only one node has no chevron.

Save from a conversation or the Jukebox#

Save to Listr keeps different kinds of entries depending on where you use it:

Wait for Saved to Listr before treating the action as complete. A failed save can be retried after checking the connection. Saving a chat line here is separate from Keep this line, which asks to turn it into a node in its room. Saving a track reference is also separate from adding a free track to your music library.

See Chat, Walls, Feed and Jukebox for their controls.

Row menus#

Right-click an entry, or focus it and press Shift+F10 or the Menu key. Its menu offers the actions appropriate to that entry:

• Add to canvas places it where you are working.
• Open enters an associated node when there is one to open.
• Open link opens a non-capture snippet’s address.
• Open in editor edits an ordinary note in its row, or opens an associated node’s editor.
• Copy copies note text, checklist text, a snippet’s address and passage, or palette colours. A node bookmark uses Copy node.
• Duplicate makes an independent entry where that kind supports it.
• Edit tags opens the entry’s tag field.
• Move to…, Move out, New folder with item, Move up and Move down organise it in folders.
• Delete removes the entry from Listr.

Copy node puts a node link on the clipboard. Pasting it onto a canvas can place that node as a linked node, subject to permission and sharing. Duplicate instead creates your own independent content; changes to that duplicate do not feed back to the source.

Tags#

Choose Edit tags. Type a tag and press Enter or a comma to add it; Done finishes. Tags use letters, numbers, underscores and hyphens. They are kept in lower case without the leading #, up to 40 characters each and 20 tags on an entry.

Press Backspace in an empty tag field to remove the last tag, or use a tag’s remove control. A tag’s context menu offers Copy tag and, where available, Remove tag.

Place linked content#

Drag an entry onto a writable canvas, or choose Add to canvas. Notes and snippets with an associated node are placed as links to that item. Changing the item’s text or picture through an editable placement changes the same item, including its Listr view. The placement keeps its own position and size.

Your own unshared item can be placed in your own unshared space. A public destination can ask you to Share it first, so other viewers can open what you place. Cancel or complete that share before trying the placement again.

Find beyond your list#

In All, a search of at least two characters can show Nodes that match, including your own and readable public nodes. These are additional search results, not a claim that you previously saved every result. Their menus offer Open, Copy link and Copy title where there is a title.

Search everywhere opens the broader Search window with your query. Its tabs are All, Pixls, Nodes, Notes and Audio. This button searches without capturing the text; Enter in Listr's own bar still saves it. To find something already saved, first clear any filter and check All.

If the list says Your list could not be loaded or saved. Try again shortly., use Try again after checking the connection. Listr is not available right now means its feature cannot currently be used; retry later. See notes and images for those entries’ details.