Burst Notes Manual

This manual describes Burst Notes 1.08. Burst Notes lives in your menu bar, pops up a command window on a global keyboard shortcut, and appends what you type to the right section of a plain Markdown file.

Getting Started

• What is Burst Notes?: a five-minute tour from the keyboard shortcut to your first captured note
• Markdown Quick Start: the handful of plain-text conventions you need to know

Using Burst Notes

• The Command Window: searching, drilling into headers, moving around with the keyboard
• Capturing Notes: bullets, to-dos, text, quotes and code blocks; where new lines go
• Modes: Normal, Navigation, Edit, Copy and Paste
• The Built-in Editor: Visual and Source tabs, toolbar, text size, autosave
• Managing Files: the open list, templates, recent files, external editors
• Settings: keyboard shortcut, appearance, updates, the menu bar icon

Reference

• Keyboard Shortcuts: every shortcut on one page
• Troubleshooting: hot key conflicts, paste permission, the editor closing early, trial and licensing
• Version History

More Information

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