Table of Contents

• Interpretation of Values
• Special Marked Signifiers
• Marking and Unmarking
• Filtering

Interpretation of Values

If a Mark field is edited using an external text editor, or some other app, then text values will be interpreted in the following way.

• Anything starting with the letter ‘y’ (such as ‘yes’) will be interpreted as true;
• Anything starting with the letter ‘n’ (such as ‘no’) will be interpreted as false;
• Anything starting with the letter ‘t’ (such as ‘true’) will be interpreted as true;
• Anything starting with the letter ‘f’ (such as ‘false’) will be interpreted as false;
• Anything starting with the letter ‘m’ (such as ‘marked’) will be interpreted as true;
• The word ‘on’ will be interpreted as true;
• The digit ‘1’ will be interpeted as true;
• Any other value will be interpreted as false.

Special Marked Signifiers

Marked notes will have a special designator shown on the List, Tags and Outline tabs.

On the List tab, the designator will be shown in a separate column, with a heading of ‘Mk’.

On the Tags and Outline tabs, the designator will be shown as a suffix appearing at the end of a note’s title.

The default designator will be a black flag.

The default can be changed via a configuration setting on the Mark field definition line in the collection template file.

A string of 3 characters or less will be used as-is.

A string of 4 characters or more will be interpreted as a Unicode number.

For example, the following template line could be used to identify a flag character as the marked designator.

Mark: <mark: 2691>

Here is a brief list of other possibilities.

⚑ BLACK FLAG 2691

⛳︎ FLAG IN HOLE 26F3

★ BLACK STAR 2605

✻ TEARDROP-SPOKED ASTERISK 273B

☛ BLACK RIGHT POINTING INDEX 261B

➼ WEDGE-TAILED RIGHTWARDS ARROW 27BC

● BLACK CIRCLE 25CF

◼︎ BLACK MEDIUM SQUARE 25FC

✓ CHECK MARK 2713

Marking and Unmarking

The Mark field can be updated on the Edit tab by checking or unchecking a check box.

However the Mark field can also be toggled from the List tab, the Tags tab, or the Outline tab, using a contextual menu item that can be invoked by right-clicking on a selected row.

Using this contextual menu item has several advantages:

• A note’s Mark field can be toggled without having to either Edit or Save the note to be updated;
• A range of notes can be acted upon all at once, by selecting a range and then invoking the context menu on any note in the selected range;
• On the Tags tab, all notes with a certain Tag can be toggled at once, by selecting and then context-clicking on the row representing the tag itself;
• On the Outline tab, an entire branch of the outline can be tagged or untagged by selecting and then context-clicking on a parent.

Filtering

The Collection -> Filter submenu provides three options for a collection containing a Mark field.

1. Show All
2. Show Marked Only
3. Show Unmarked Only

The second and third options can be used to filter all of the collection views (List, Tags and, optionally, Outline) so that they show only the selected subset of the entire collection.

Note that the filtering option selected is not very “sticky.” It will be reset to show all whenever the collection is reloaded for any reason.