The last post covered the small habits that make the sidebar comfortable. This one covers the bigger containers, what to reach for when one sidebar is starting to hold more than one life.
What Areas, Folders, and Notes are
All three are kinds of Trail, just with different shapes.
An Area is the outermost container, with its own header. Most people end up with one for work, one for personal stuff, and maybe one for a side project. Each Area can hold Trails, Folders, and Notes.
A Folder is a Trail that starts with a folder rather than a web page. Useful for grouping related Trails inside an Area.
A Note is a Trail you can write inside, instead of (or alongside) loading web pages. Plain text for now; more is coming.
How to use Areas in Horse Browser
To open a new Area, click on the icon on the left at the top of the sidebar or use the following keyboard shortcut, Cmd+N.
Write the name of your Area and hit Return to save
Scroll over the Area and click + to add Subtrails to your Area or use ⌥ ⌘ T on Mac or Alt + Ctrl + T on Windows and Linux. You can also add Side Trails by using ⌥ ⇧ ⌘ T on Mac or Alt + Ctrl + Shift + T on Windows / Linux.
Alternatively, simply drag-and-drop Trails, Folders and Notes inside
How to Use Folders in Horse Browser
To open a new Folder, click on the folder icon at the top of the sidebar
Write the name of your Folder and hit Return to save
Scroll over the Folder and click + to add a Trail to your Folder. Or use ⌥ ⌘ T on Mac or Alt + Ctrl + T on Windows and Linux.
You can also add a Side Trail by using ⌥ ⇧ ⌘ T on Mac or Alt + Ctrl + Shift + T on Windows / Linux
Alternatively, you can simply drag-and-drop Trails, other Folders or Notes inside your Folder.
To add multiple Trails in one go, select the relevant Trails (Cmd + Click on Mac or Ctrl + Click on Windows/Linux) and then right-click to see an option to create a New Folder with the selected Trails.
How to use Notes in Horse Browser
To open a new Note, click on the document icon at the top of the sidebar
Write the title of your Note and add a custom icon by selecting the blank page symbol to the right of the title
You can then add notes by writing under the title. At the moment, the notes in Horse Browser are plain text only but new features are coming
Scroll over the Note and click + to add Subtrails to your Notes or use ⌥ ⌘ T on Mac or Alt + Ctrl + T on Windows and Linux. You can also add Side Trails to your Notes by using ⌥ ⇧ ⌘ T on Mac or Alt + Ctrl + Shift + T on Windows / Linux
Remember, you can drag-and-drop any existing Trails, Notes or Folders into your Notes
Next
That's all three containers. The final post in the series covers what happens when you quit Horse, what happens when it updates, and how to back everything up so future-you doesn't lose any of it.
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