When you create a page, Protolyst asks you to Choose a type for this page. The type decides what the page holds. Hover over each button to see its name.
Text Editor #
A live, collaborative text editor for notes, reports, meeting minutes and drafts. Add headings, lists, images, embeds and links to other pages. See Formatting your Notes.
Table #
A table shows many pages at once. Every row is a page in its own right, so you can open any row to write in it or attach files. Add columns (called properties) for the details you want to track, such as an author, a status or a date.
Switch how a table looks with its views: Table, Gallery, Vertical, Kanban and Calendar (in beta).
File Upload #
Upload a document to read, highlight and capture Atoms from. Protolyst accepts PDF, Word (.doc and .docx) and PowerPoint (.ppt and .pptx) files. Word and PowerPoint files can be up to 30 MB.
Tip: To upload several files at once, drag them onto a table. Each file becomes its own row.
Web Page #
Import an online article as clean, uncluttered text so you can read it and capture Atoms from it. Choose Web Page, paste the address into Paste a URL and click Import.
After an import, a bar asks How Did our Web-Scraper Do?. Your answer helps us improve imports. If an import does not look right, use the reset button on that bar, or Reset Page Type in the page’s ⋯ menu, to turn it back into a normal page.
Tip: The page takes the web address as its title. You can rename it to something more readable at any time.
Page Template (inside tables) #
When you add a row to a table, you will also see Page Template. Use it to start the row from a template saved in that table, so every row follows the same layout.
Changing a page’s type #
Open the ⋯ menu at the top right of the page and choose Reset Page Type, then Reset to Typeless Page. You can then choose a new type.
