*Note: Blink is currently being reworked*

- Blink is a new way to quickly search and edit your notes from anywhere in your workspace. 
- Open the blink modal using a hotkey or in your spaces and find what you're looking for.

## Searching with Blink
- Blink can search and allow you to instantly edit your Notes and Contexts, just type in what you're looking for and your note/context will be loaded

Blink

- You can combine an existing context by adding the context to your space in the Properties editor. 
- Combining a context allows you to automatically add all the properties from the existing context to your current space. 
- By connecting contexts together, you can build a connections between different spaces.

## Combining Your Contexts
1. Open the Context Properties
2. Select Add Context
3. Find an existing tag to extend your context with
4. Select the tag and that context will be add

Combining Contexts.md

- Contexts define a set of properties and views for any space. 
- Contexts are great for specific projects, types of information like media library or across your system as an organization system

# Creating a Context
- Each space comes with a context, you can add properties directly to the context and it will be associated with all of your notes. 
- You can find the context view inside the space view.

## Context Properties
- Add new properties or import your existing metadata to your contexts. 
- Choose one of the following properties which each gives you unique ways to represent your data both visually and systematically.
	- Context Property Types
		- Text
			- Any text you want
		- Number
			- Enter any integers or decimal numbers
		- Date
			- Choose a date from the date picker and customize the format to display it in
		- Options
			- A list of options that can be selected through dropdown
			- Support for multiple values
		- Yes/No
			- Toggle between a checkbox
		- Lookup
			- Look up a property of another Link/Context/File field
		- Link
			- A link to a note
		- Context
			- Create an option from one of your Contexts
		- Image
			- Choose an image in your workspace or online to show in your context

### Adding Existing Metadata to Contexts
*Note: this feature is currently unavailable and will be readded.*
1. Open the Context Properties
2. Select add metadata.
3. Select the metadata properties that you want to add

### Customizing Properties
1. Open the Context Properties
2. Toggle which properties you want to display
3. Drag and drop the order you want to display the properties in

# Viewing your Context

## Customizing your Context View
- Visualize your contexts with different views that tailor to your data and workflow. 
- Each view opens up new use cases for your needs.
	- **List View**
		- The standard view for contexts is a great way to quickly find what you're looking for with just the information you need.
	- **Card View**
		- A compact yet versatile view, the card view creates cards that lets you visually preview your notes or group into a Kanban view.
	- **Table View**
		- Built for data, the table view gives you quick access to view and edit your data as well as shortcuts to sorting and filtering.
	- **Flow View**
		- Turn your context into a continuous document, the flow view lets you edit all the notes in your folder seamlessly.

### Switching Views
- Try different views for your data by switching views in the View Options menu.

### Create a Kanban Board in Card View
- Quickly create a kanban board using the Card View and Grouping By the property.

## Search, Filter and Sort your Context
- Quickly find your data with a combination of search, filter and sorting.

### Searching your Context
- Easily search from the search bar in your contexts and to search through all your properties.

### Filtering your Context
- Add filters based on different properties in your context. 
- Each property type offers different fitlers, use a combination of filters to create the view you're looking for.

### Sorting your Context
- Select the sort by in the options menu and select the field you want to sort by.


Context Basics

- You can also embed a context to let you easily maintain dynamic, data-driven notes that stay up-to-date with your database.

## Embedded Contexts
- Embedded Contexts lets you easily maintain dynamic, data-driven notes that stay up-to-date with your database.

### Embedding your Contexts
1. Open the Context you want to embed
2. Right click on the View in your Context and click "Copy Embed Link"
3. Open the Note you want to embed into
4. Paste the link into your notes where you want to embed

Contexts in your Notes

In Make.md, the Contexts feature is a powerful information organization solution designed to help you efficiently manage and access your notes. With Contexts, you can effortlessly connect related notes and create structured, dynamic collections of your ideas, research, and projects. This documentation will guide you through setting up, using, and customizing Contexts in Make.md to optimize your note-taking experience.

## **Context Basics**
Contexts define a set of properties and views for any collection of notes whether it's in a folder, tag or a space depending on your form of organization. Folder contexts are great for focused folders like projects. Tag context are great for organizing the same type of notes across your notes such as media library. Space contexts are flexible for any research or organizing across different projects.

Main Article: [[Context Basics]]

## **Contexts within Notes**
You can also directly access your Contexts while in your notes through the Context Explorer or Inline Contexts. You can also embed a context to let you easily maintain dynamic, data-driven notes that stay up-to-date with your database.

Main Article: [[Contexts in your Notes]]

## **Combining Contexts**
You can combine an existing context by adding the context to your space in the Properties editor. Combining a context allows you to automatically add all the properties from the existing context to your current space. By connecting contexts together, you can build a connections between different spaces.

Main Article: [[Combining Contexts]]



Contexts

## Creating a Flow Block from Flow Menu
1. Create a new line in your notes where you want your Flow Block to be
2. Open the Flow Menu by typing your trigger key (/ by default)
3. Select Flow Block
4. Find the Note you want to connect

## Opening a Flow Block from Inline Link
1. Hover over the inline link you want to open flow block with
2. Based on your inline flow block settings
	1. If hover to open is on: Hold shift and click the link
	2. If hover to open is off: Click Open Flow from the menu

## Opening a Flow Block from Inline Embeds
1. Hover over the inline embed you want to open flow block with
2. Click the toggle flow button

Flow Blocks.md

## Creating Blocks with Flow Menu
1. Create a new line and type the hotkey ('/' by default) to open the Flow Menu
2. Select/search for the block you want to create

Flow Menu.md

## Opening the Flow Styler
1. Select the text in your note that you want to style
2. Use the styler to select the formating you want to apply

Flow Styler.md

- The inline context is where you can apply all the context properties for your note directly in the note itself.

## Editing Properties
- You can find the inline context at the top of your note and all the properties from the contexts will show up here. 
- You can also add new properties to your note or to the context by clicking Add Property.

Inline Context.md

- You can create tables just like your context tables but anywhere in your notes. 
- You can use the Flow Menu to create a table directly or add a table to your Folder context and embed it into your notes. 
- Inline tables come with all the features you get from a context table including views, sort and filter.

Inline Tables.md

## Overview
Flow transforms your editor experience to enhance your note-taking by streamlining the process of viewing, editing, and styling your notes. Flow offers a range of powerful features, including:

## Activating Flow
To activate Flow, follow these steps:
1. Open Settings in the main menu and navigate to 'Make.md' in the sidebar
2. Scroll to the 'Flow' section
3. Toggle on the the Flow features you want to use

[[Flow Blocks]] - Seamless viewing and editing of connected notes
[[Flow Styler]] - Styling your notes with ease
[[Flow Menu]] - Quickly add formating to your content

Flow Editor

- Make your perfect personal system that's tailored to your workflow and style. 
- Make.md helps makers focus on making instead of constantly context switching with spaces and flow editor. 
	- Spaces help you organize your information the exact way you want it 
	- The Flow editor helps you capture and connect ideas exactly the way you want it.


# 🍱 Limitless Organization with Spaces
- It's your system, organize it exactly how you want. 
- Spaces allow you to organize your notes and files from anywhere in your system. 
- Create a space for a specific project, an area of life or based on a search to discover new connections. 
- Learn more about [[Spaces]] here

## Navigator
- The [[Navigator]] allows you to navigate, create and organize your Spaces in an easy to use drag-and-drop interface.

## Space View
- Make each of your spaces and items unique and customized with [[Space View]]. 
- Whether you want a simple list of all the items in your space or create an interactive dashboard or a minimalistic space for focus, you can use do it in the space view.

## Contexts
- [[Contexts]] adds structure and meaning to your spaces by transforming it into a database and defining a set list of properties for your space. 
- Whether it's to track status on project management, ratings in your media library or fun facts about your friends. 


# 🖊️ Intuitive Editing with Flow
- Discover the power of the [[Flow Editor]], revolutionizing your editor experience with intuitive features designed to let your ideas flourish effortlessly. 

## Inline Context
- The [[Inline Context]] allows you to directly edit the properties from the contexts your note belongs to so you can quickly add context to your note.

## Flow Blocks
- Effortlessly view and edit connected ideas using [[Flow Blocks]], providing seamless context integration for deeper understanding. 

## Flow Styler
- Style your ideas with ease using the [[Flow Styler]], making formatting a breeze. 

## Flow Menu
- The [[Flow Menu]] enables the rapid creation of preformatted data blocks, streamlining organization and presentation of your ideas. 

## Inline Tables
- Add easy-to-use tables that you can filter and sort directly inline with your ideas with [[Inline Tables]]


# 🤩 Blink 
- Ideas can come any time even if you're not working on it. 
- With [[Blink]], you can quickly capture your ideas anywhere without ever leaving your current one, enhancing efficiency and focus.
*Blink is currently being reworked, stay tuned!*

Getting Started

# Spaces - Organize Smarter
- Spaces are an easy yet powerful way to organize your system so that it can tailor to your workflow. 
# Default Spaces
- Default spaces help you quickly get started with Spaces. 
- The Home space is a quick way to organize your spaces. 
## Home Space
- The home space is a clean slate you can adding spaces or pinning items in order to quickly navigate to what you want to focus on.
## Tags Space
- The tags space allows you to navigate all of your spaces and manage your spaces.
## Vault Space
- The vault space is a space that contains all of the items in your system where you can find items to pin into your other spaces.
## Removing the Spaces Folder
- Every space is customizable and you can turn off the default space if you don't need them. 
- The spaces folder will no longer be created.
# Smart Search
- Smart search lets you create a customized filter of your system to find or connect your ideas, the filter will automatically update as your files change. 
## Smart Search in a Space
- You can add a smart search directly to a space, either create a new space or edit an existing space and click the Add Smart Search button. 
- The search results automatically refresh everytime something changes in your system so that it's always up to date.
## Navigator Smart Search
- You can also start a smart search by clicking the search icon in the navigator. 
- Smart searches can be added to a space which will automatically pin the items from the search directly into your space.
## Types of Filters
1. File Properties
	1. Folder
	2. Extension
	3. Path
	5. Sticker
	6. Alias
2. File Metadata
	1. Frontmatter
	2. Tags
	3. Contexts
	4. Spaces



Introduction to Spaces.md


# Navigating your Spaces

- You can find the Navigator in the Navigator tab on the top left of the sidebar.
- The navigator tree contains everything in that space including pinned items.
- Spaces in the navigator can be expanded, opened in the [[Space View]], and insert notes, spaces and pins inside of your space.
- Notes can be opened in the [[Flow Editor]]

## Waypoints

- Waypoints is a quick way to open a space in the navigator.
- You will have the home space, tags space and your vault space added by default.

### Adding to Waypoints

- Click the + button in waypoints and choose the space you want to add
- Drag and drop a space from the navigator into the waypoints

### Reordering Waypoints

- Drag and drop your waypoints to reorder them

### Opening Waypoint in Space View

- Holding the command/control key, you can automatically open the waypoint to the space view.

### Removing from Waypoints

- Right click on any space and press unpin from space to remove it from waypoints

# Managing your Spaces

## Creating a New Space

### Making a Space

- You can make a space by creating one from scratch, editing an existing folder or turning a note into a space.

1. In the Main Menu select Add Folder/Space button
2. Choose a name for your Space
3. Add pinned files or add a Smart Search

## Editing an Existing Space

### Reordering in a Space

- You can reorder in any space by drag and dropping.
- Your space must be sort by custom in order to drag and drop.

### Pinning a Note/Space to a Space

- Notes and spaces can be pinned to a space so you can quickly access them.
- There are many ways to pin to a space.
  1.  Directly clicking pin to space in the Space View / Flow Editor
  2.  Right-clicking a note an clicking pin to a space
  3.  Right-click on the space and click Add Pin
  4.  Drag and drop a note/space into the space while holding shift


Navigator

- The Space View gives you full control of how you interact with all your Spaces. 
- You can add interactivity with buttons and links. 
- You can create custom layouts with groups and columns. 
- You can add custom styles with custom colors, fonts and sizes. 
- Connect context views, flow views from anywhere in your system. 

## Opening your Space View
- Find the space you want in the navigator and directly open the space view

## Customizing your Space View
- The spaces view can be customized with frames. 
- Frames makes it easy to add/remove anything from your system as well as customize it exactly the way you want. 

### Notes
- You can connect any notes from across your system in your Space View by embedding notes.

**Adding a Note**
- Select New Note or Existing Note from the add menu to add/link an existing note to your Space View.

**Customizations on Note View**
- You can apply styles to the entire note for example, text size, color or font. 

### Contexts
- You can add any context into your space view. 
- The context for the space is by default added to your space view and you can customize it however you want.

**Customizations for Context View**
- Make your context seamless in your space view by hiding the filter bar or make it the full width of the page.

### Divider
- Dividers give you a quick visual way to separate different parts of your space view. 

### Image
- Add resizable images to your Space View to give your Space some view flair. 

**Adding an Image**
- Select Image from the add menu and then select which image you want to add

### Column
- Layout the different frames in your spaces into columns. 

**Creating a Column**
- Drag and dropping into the right side of another frame will automatically create a new column.

### Button
- Add buttons that lets you quickly perform actions right from your Space. 

**Adding a Button**
1. Select the button from the add view
2. Give your button a label and an icon
3. Select the type of action you want (Run Command or Open Link currently available)
4. Select which command or link you want the button to run/goto

Space View

- You can leverage all the features and customization of spaces with your tags. 
- Tag spaces are turned on by default and you can find it in your Waypoints.
## Managing your Tags
- Open the tags space where you will see a list of all your tags. 
- You can rename tags or delete them which will apply the changes to all your notes.
## Pinning a Tag Space 
- You can pin it to Waypoints, Home or any other space

Tags.md

- Spaces are a smarter and more personalized way to organize your notes and files so that you can stay in focus and in the flow.

## Space - The Basics
- You can use any folder in your system as a Space. 
- Spaces are designed so that you can bring together files from across your system. 
- You can add items to your space by pinning them from another folder/space or you can add items through a smart search which will automatically pin items to your space based on a search/filter.
- Learn how about what spaces can do and the default spaces in [[Introduction to Spaces]]

## Navigator
- The Navigator is an easy to use yet powerful tool for getting the most out of your spaces. 
- You can use drag and drop to quickly reorder files, pin them to spaces or move/copy files between spaces. 
- Learn more about navigating and managing spaces in [[Navigator]]

## Space View
- Make each of your spaces personal and interactive to suite the workflow and vibe. 
- When you open a space in the main view, you will get a fully customizable view where you can create custom workflows, make a layout or match the vibe.
- Learn more about creating and customizing the [[Space View]]

## Managing Tags
- Manage your tags and navigate them as if they're spaces.
- Learn more about managing tags in [[Tags]]

## Context
- Each of your space creates a context which adds structure and meaning to what's inside the space. 
	- For example, your book space can now have properties such as author, genre, cover photo, which you can then display, sort and filter anyway you want or connect to other contexts. 
- Contexts are extremely powerful yet simple way of creating databases from your space.
- Learn more about setting up and customizing your contexts in [[Contexts]]


Spaces

<p><em>Note: Blink is currently being reworked</em></p>
<ul>
<li>Blink is a new way to quickly search and edit your notes from anywhere in your workspace.</li>
<li>Open the blink modal using a hotkey or in your spaces and find what you're looking for.</li>
</ul>
<h2>Searching with Blink</h2>
<ul>
<li>Blink can search and allow you to instantly edit your Notes and Contexts, just type in what you're looking for and your note/context will be loaded</li>
</ul>


Docs

Blink

Searching with Blink