Creating Notes

This section will show you how to create notes. Note Station is versatile, possessing many features to help you get the most out of your notes. The first thing you may consider doing is creating a new notebook. When new notes are created, if a notebook is not specified, the new note will be created in My Notebook. You can also create notebooks to organize notes as well as shelves to organize notebooks. The note hierarchy in Note Station is shelf > notebook > note.

To create a new notebook:

  1. At the top of Note Station, click Create.
  2. Click Create Notebook.
  3. Enter a title for your new notebook.
  4. Click OK.

To create a smart notebook:

A smart notebook is an intelligent collection of notes that meet the specified search criteria.

  1. You can create a smart notebook in either way below:
  2. Click OK to save the settings.
  3. To modify the smart notebook settings, right-click the smart notebook and click Edit.

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To create a new shelf:

  1. You can choose any of the following methods to create a new shelf.
  2. Enter a title for your new shelf.
  3. Click OK.
  4. In the menu panel, you can click on your newly-created shelf to view the notebooks it contains.

When you are ready to create a new note, click Create. You have several options:

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Once you have created a new note, it is time to add content.

To edit notes:

  1. In the menu panel, click on a notebook that contains your notes. You can alternatively click on Note > All Notes to view all your notes in Note Station.
  2. Your notes will appear in the browser panel. Click on the note you want to edit. You can also right-click a note and select Edit.
  3. Your selected note should appear in the note panel. Start editing away!

Note Station offers you many features to edit and add content to your notes with:

To create a note link:

Note links help you instantly reach other notes and make cross-referencing easy and handy.

  1. Right-click the target note you want to create a link for.
  2. Select Copy note link.
  3. Open another note and paste the note link in it.
  4. Click the link for the use/management below:

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To embed a YouTube video:

  1. Copy the YouTube video link you want to embed.
  2. In the note panel, click Insert/edit link.
  3. Paste the copied YouTube video link in URL.
  4. Check Embed YouTube video.
  5. Click OK.

To create tables and charts:

Creating tables helps you sort numeric data, and you can create charts out of the tables for data visualization.

  1. Click Table (the table icon) > Insert table, and define the table size.
  2. Enter the data in the created table.
  3. Select the created table, and click Chart (the bar graph icon) to show the Chart Editor along with an editing table for data modification.
  4. In the Chart Editor, click Chart for the following managements:
  5. In the Chart Editor, click Settings for the following managements:
  6. Click Apply to insert the generated chart.

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To modify existing charts:

Note Station allows you to instantly modify a generated chart with an editing table.

  1. Open the note that contains the target chart.
  2. Click Edit below the chart to display the Chart Editor with an editing table. Alternatively, select the chart and click Chart on the toolbar above to show the table.
  3. Edit the editing table in the following ways:
  4. During data modification, the chart preview changes with the new data. To edit the table again, click the edition icon on the top-right corner of the chart editor.
  5. Click Apply to save the changes to the chart.

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If you make changes to the editing table, the changes will not be saved to the source table in your note.

To save your notes:

Note Station makes saving notes simple. While you are working on your note, Note Station automatically saves a copy of your note every ten minutes and when Note Station is idle for ten seconds. In addition, Note Station will also save a copy when you switch to another item. A complete version history is also saved for each note. See Managing Notes for more information about version history. Sync now can also be used to manually save your note.

When using Note Station from different places (e.g., multiple browsers and mobile devices), you can click Sync Now to retrieve the latest data from your Synology NAS. The different panels as well as newest note content/information will be updated. You have the convenience of creating a new note in one place, and finishing it at another place.