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| Adding an Attachment to a Page
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Drop a document onto a page to add it to the outline. By default NoteBook adds the attachment to the page’s outline - to place the attachment anywhere on the page, hold down the Shift key.
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The green copy cursor ➊ indicates the file will be copied into the Notebook.
Press Control while dragging to create a link to the original file. When you link an attachment, NoteBook tracks it wherever you move it on your computer.
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When you release the file, NoteBook creates a new cell ➋ to hold it. A linked file attachment has an arrow in its lower-left corner.
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Once you’ve added a file to an outline you can delete the original. You can set linking to be your default action, in the Attachments pane in NoteBook preferences.
To place a file into an existing note, click within the note to create an insertion point, then drop the file into the note.
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Double-clicking an attachment opens it within its default application. Control- or right-click an attachment for a menu of applications that can open the file.
If you copied the file into your Notebook, NoteBook opens the copy (not the original). Any changes you make to it will get saved to that copy within the Notebook. If you linked the file into your Notebook, NoteBook opens the original file.
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| Customizing an Attachment’s Alignment in an Outline
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Attachments within an outline’s cells have three alignment options: left-aligned, right-aligned, and “inline.” With left- and right-aligned attachments, the cell’s text flows around the attachment. With inline attachments, the attachment appears between characters in the text, as if it were a large character. To change an attachment’s alignment, control-click the attachment and choose a new alignment from the contextual menu that appears, or use the Attachment Inspector. NOTE: any number of attachments can be aligned “inline” within a cell, but only one can have left- or right-alignment.
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| Working with Image Attachments
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With NoteBook you can customize the presentation of image files, such as their rotation, and scaling.
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The tool palette lets you change an image’s rotation, alignment, and anti-aliasing settings, or show the Attachment Inspector.
Drag a knob to scale, or Option-drag to rotate.
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| You can modify other attributes, such as the photo corners and drop shadow, using the Attachment Inspector (Window → Inspector).
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| Pasting an Image as a Specific Image Type
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If the Clipboard contains an image, use a command in the Edit → Paste → Paste Image as menu to paste it as specific image file type.
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| Getting a Quick Look Preview of an Attachment
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If you’re running OS X 10.5 (Leopard) you can Quick Look an attachment, which will cause the attachment to appear in the standard Quick Look viewer. Control-click the attachment and choose the Quick Look command from the contextual menu that appears, or use the Quick Look command in the Outline menu.
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| Importing from a Digital Camera
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The Action Inspector’s Capture pane can import files directly into a Notebook from your digital camera. NOTE: If your camera doesn’t appear in the Capture pane, it may not be Mac-compatible. In general, NoteBook can access any camera or scanner that works with Apple’s Image Capture application. NoteBook will add mages and other files imported from a camera to the destination page’s outline.
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| Working with “LinkBack” Attachments
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When you paste an image or other content from a LinkBack-enabled application, you can later edit that content directly within the source application. For example, if you create an equation in a LinkBack-enabled equation editor such as LaTeXiT, you can paste the equation as an image into NoteBook. With the image selected, choosing Edit → Edit in LaTeXiT launches LaTeXiT and opens the equation that created the image. If you change the equation and save, those changes also appear in NoteBook.
For more information about LinkBack, and a list of LinkBack-enabled applications, visit the LinkBack Project website.
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| Reclaiming Space after Deleting an Attachment
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If you delete a note with a file attachment, NoteBook does not also remove the attachment from the Notebook. To delete the attachment permanently from your Notebook, click “Remove All” in the Discarded Attachments Multidex page.
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Click Remove All ➊ to delete all of the discarded attachments.
If you select an attachment ➋, you can copy and paste it to another page, or press the Delete key to delete it.
Any attachments you don’t delete will continue to live within the Notebook, occupying space on your disk.
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The Discarded Attachments page is particularly useful if you discover that you deleted a cell containing your only copy of a file! By The Way: Why doesn’t NoteBook delete the attachments along with the cells that hold them? This extra step is a safety measure to ensure that you don’t delete an attachment you still need.
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Working with Attachments
