Notes

Your Memos notes on the device.

The Notes tab (it took Favorites' place in the tab bar, V) shows your Memos notes as sticky notes, pinned first (six to a page in the usual layout: see Layouts below). Written against Memos v0.31 (/api/v1); newer servers that moved the API to /api are found too.

• Favorites is still in Settings → Interface → Navbar → Tabs, turned off; turn it on there (or on the setup guide's Navbar Tabs page, which also offers Notes) to have both.
• Connect: the first time, the tab offers Connect with QR code (the setup page, at its Notes section: the Memos address and an access token) or Connect by typing. Create the token in Memos → Settings → My account → Access Tokens. The Kindle keeps the token (never your password) in GZreader's settings; it's never written to the log. An address without https:// falls back to http:// for a Memos on your home network.
• Board: the letter on a note (Q, W, E…) opens it, ◀ ▶ (or the page keys) turn pages, the 5-way moves around the notes. N new note, F filter, L layout, S sort, M connection (the Menu key opens the quick panel in tab views). Touch Kindles have buttons under the title instead: Note (a new note), Draw (a new note that opens on a page to draw on), Filter, Layout, Sort, Connection, and an icon for Full screen (an X while in full screen, to leave it). A Kindle 4 has neither letter keys nor buttons: its Menu key on the board opens New note, Filter…, Layout, Sort…, Full screen and Connection….
• Connection (the button, M, or Menu → Connection… on a Kindle 4): your Memos account only: Refresh (with how many changes are waiting to be sent), Connect again (a new address or access token) and Disconnect (asks first; the notes kept on the Kindle are removed, your notes in Memos stay).
• Sort (the Sort button, S, or Menu → Sort… on a Kindle 4): Sort notes by Date created (the default) or Date edited, Reverse order (oldest first) and Pinned first (on by default). Memos is asked for the notes in that order (order_by), and the Kindle sorts what it keeps the same way (notes written here and not sent yet, a sync through a computer).
• Layouts (as in the Memos web app): L on the board (Layout on a touch Kindle, Menu → Layout on a Kindle 4, or Settings → Connections → Memos (Notes) → Layout) chooses how many notes side by side, and how long each is:
  • List (one note under another), Two side by side (the default), Three side by side, or Auto: as many side by side as fit the screen with room for about 22 characters a line (two upright, three sideways; at most four).
  • Compact (the default): every note the same size, three rows to a page (two sideways); a long note is cut off with "…" (open it to read it all). Full: each note as long as it needs, with all its pictures, nothing cut off, as many to a page as fit (each in the column with the most room, like Memos' masonry view). A note too long for the page goes on at the top of the empty column to its right, or on the next page, marked continued; its parts share one letter.
  • On the Kindles with keys a page holds at most ten notes, one per letter Q–P. After a change, the board shows the page with the note that was first on screen. The choice is kept.
  • Full screen: no tab bar (also the full-screen icon on a touch Kindle, and Menu on a Kindle 4) hides the tab bar at the bottom of the Notes tab, for more notes on a page. The X where the icon was (or Layout) brings it back; Back or the quick panel's Home leave the tab.
• A note: the text in Patrick Hand, checklist items with letter keys (press one to tick or untick it; the change goes to Memos), pictures from the note shown inline, its tags and place, and its attachments (PDFs and other documents open in the reader, pictures in the image viewer; each is downloaded once into cache/gzreader-notes). Alt+E edits, Alt+P pins, page keys scroll a long note.
• Notes from Memos' rich editor (Memos 26.11 and newer): its empty paragraphs ( ), characters written as codes (&, |) and backslash escapes (\*, \#) show as Memos shows them: blank lines and the characters themselves. On touch Kindles the editor shows them that way too (see Editing on a touch Kindle); on keyboard Kindles the editor shows the note as it's written.
• Editing on a touch Kindle works like Memos' web editor. The note shows formatted on one page (headings big, lists with • and numbers, checklists with ☐ ☑, bold and italic), with no Markdown and no   to see, and you type straight into it.
  • Tap to put the cursor there. Tap a checklist item's ☐ to tick it.
  • Hold a word to select it, and drag to stretch the selection over words and lines. Typing replaces the selection; ⌫ deletes it.
  • The keyboard has ⮠ Enter and ← →. Enter starts a new line (the next item in a list; Enter on an empty item ends the list). ⌫ at the start of a line joins it to the line before. Swipe up or down to scroll a long note.
  • The toolbar works on the selection, or on the cursor's line or word:
    • H Head makes the lines a heading, then a smaller one, then text again.
    • • List, ☐ Check and 1. Num make the lines list items; tap the same one again to make them text.
    • B and I make the selection bold or italic (or the word at the cursor; with no word there, what you type next).
    • # Tag adds a tag at the cursor.
  • Code, quotes, tables and pictures show as their Markdown in grey and edit as text.
  • Save writes the note the way Memos' rich editor writes it. Lines you didn't change are kept exactly as they were.
• The on-screen keyboard keeps ⮠ Enter and ← → on its letters page in boxes where you type several lines (notes, KOReader's text editor). One-line boxes (search, names, passwords) keep the shorter bottom row, with Enter on the symbols page.
• Editor (keyboard Kindles): a full page with a toolbar at the bottom: List, Check, Num, Head, I, B, # Tag and Save. Menu jumps to the toolbar from anywhere in the text (on the tool used last) and the cursor stays where it is, so the tool applies there; Menu again (or ▲) goes back to the text. ▼ from the last line also reaches the toolbar; ◀ ▶ choose, Press applies. Shortcuts: Alt+L list, Alt+C checklist, Alt+N numbered, Alt+H heading, Alt+K italic, Alt+B bold, Alt+G tag, Alt+S save, Alt+V who can see it, Alt+A its space. Alt + the top row types 1–0 here. New notes are private unless you change it. Back asks whether to save.
• Spaces (Memos v0.31 and newer): beside who can see the note, the editor shows its space (tap it, Alt+A, or on a Kindle 4 Menu → ◀ ▶ to it). Choose No space or one of the spaces you're a member of. A new note starts in the space the board is showing (Filter → Space…). In a space, who can see it also offers Space members (only that space's members); taking a note out of its space turns Space members into Private, as Memos does. The note's page says which space it's in. With an older Memos (no spaces) none of this shows.
• Quick note: the quick panel's Quick note tile (at Home and in a book, while Memos is connected) opens the same editor in a window over whatever is on the screen (the page stays visible around it; on touch Kindles it sits above the keyboard, and a tap outside it is the same as Back), so you can jot something down without leaving the book, Home or Settings. Save (or Back → Save) closes it and you're back where you were; "Note saved" says it's on its way. It's sent in the background a moment later (Wi‑Fi on Auto turns on for it; on Off it waits), and only the note is sent: the board's list isn't fetched while you read, so the Notes tab syncs the next time you open it. On a Kindle syncing through a computer it goes with the next sync. Hide the tile in Settings → Interface → Quick panel.
• Drawings (touch Kindles, Memos over Wi‑Fi): tap Draw on the Notes tab, or ✎ Draw in a note's editor (beside who can see it), for a page to draw on, with Thin, Medium and Thick, Eraser (rubs out whole strokes, as in Memos), Undo and Clear. Done keeps the drawings with the note (the button says ✎ Drawing, or ✎ Drawings (2); tap it to go on drawing) and Save sends them all. A note can be just drawings.
  • Pages: + New page adds another drawing to the note; ◀ ▶ go between them (Page 1 of 2). In Memos each page is a drawing of its own, in the order of the pages (Memos v0.31 and newer: GZreader sets the order after sending, since Memos lists a note's newest attachment first). A page rubbed out to nothing is left out (or taken off the note, when it's already in Memos).
  • Paper: the button with the page's paper (Blank paper ▾ on a new page) puts it on College ruled, Wide ruled, Gregg ruled, Dot grid or Graph paper, or back to Blank. New pages start on the paper you chose last. The paper goes to Memos with the drawing as its background, as Memos' own drawing editor keeps one (a locked picture under everything), so Memos shows and keeps it; on the Kindle it's grey. On paper you draw only on the paper: a stroke stops at its edge and goes on where it comes back onto it. In Memos it's an attachment named drawing-<date>-<time>.canvas.png: Memos with drawings (its version after 26.11.0) opens it as a drawing you can edit there; an older Memos shows it as a picture. Until it's sent, the board shows the note with the drawing.
  • Editing drawings (touch Kindles): Edit on a note with drawings opens them, a page each (pictures added in Memos show too). Draw more, rub out (strokes made in Memos too), Undo, Clear; Done goes back to the note's text and Save sends both. The new drawing goes over the old one in Memos (the same attachment, as Memos' Edit drawing does); an older Memos gets it added and the old one taken off; someone else's drawing keeps theirs and gets yours beside it. A drawing bigger than the screen is shrunk to fit. Shapes and text made in Memos stay as they are (they can't be changed on the Kindle). Done on an empty page takes the drawing off the note. Any note can get a drawing: ✎ Draw in its editor.
  • Seeing drawings (made on the Kindle or in Memos): on the Notes tab a note with a drawing shows its heading (if it has one) and the drawing as big as the note allows; Layout → Full shows it bigger, with all the note's text. Open the note for everything: its text, then the drawing as wide as the page (tap it to see it on its own). Drawings come down by themselves on Wi‑Fi, like the notes' other pictures.
  • With a pen (Kindle Scribe): only the pen draws. Fingers on the page draw nothing, and while the pen is near the screen, and for a moment after it leaves, your hand can rest anywhere on it: it's ignored (palm rejection). The pen's other end rubs out. With the pen away, a finger can tap the buttons at the top.
  • With a finger (every other touch Kindle): one finger draws; a second finger at the same time is ignored.
  • Not on Kindles syncing through a computer (the sync page doesn't send drawings).
• Filters: tag, date (today, 7 days, 30 days, a year), pinned and search are Memos filters; place and "with attachments" are picked out on the Kindle (Memos v0.31 can't filter by them). Space… (when your Memos has spaces): No space or one of your spaces, with how many notes each has; the board's title says which.
• Settings → Connections → Memos (Notes): the Memos connection (connect again, disconnect); Sync all notes or only notes with chosen tags (Memos has no notebooks, so tags are the way to pick, and Filter → Space… for spaces; the list comes from Memos' tag counts, users/<id>:getStats, and the filter is tag in [...]); Storage used with Free up space (downloaded attachments, kept notes); Notes kept on the Kindle (50–500, fetched a page at a time); Attachment storage limit (10–100 MB or none; the attachments used longest ago go first).
• Wi‑Fi: only to sync (when the tab opens, at most every 5 minutes, or with changes waiting; M → Refresh any time), to send a change, and to open an attachment not on the Kindle yet. Pictures in notes are downloaded while syncing (up to 2 MB each, within the attachment limit).
• Offline: the last list of notes is kept on the Kindle (settings/gzreader-notes.json); new notes, edits, ticks and pins made without Wi‑Fi wait in a queue and are sent the next time the Notes tab can reach Memos ("not sent yet" on the note meanwhile). The Notes tab keeps Wi‑Fi up while it's open (Wi‑Fi on Auto).