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Zettelkasten-styled Card Box View

1 What Is the Card Box

💡Zettelkasten-styled card box — the core area for managing all your note cards in one place:

In the card box, learners can view, search, trace back, and edit every note card.

More importantly, the card box opens up the connections between a study set and multiple mind maps, letting notes, documents, and mind maps work in tandem. This enables cross-document, cross-study-set knowledge integration and review, so your knowledge system keeps growing as cards flow through it.

Card box in action Card box in action

2 Opening the Card Box

  • In non-fullscreen mode, tap the Cards button in the top-right corner of the study set to open the Zettelkasten-styled card box.
  • In fullscreen mode, tap ... (Study Set – More) in the top-right corner of the study set, then the Cards button to open the Zettelkasten-styled card box.

Where to open the card box in the non-fullscreen mind map / document view Where to open the card box in the non-fullscreen mind map / document view

Where to open the card box in the fullscreen mind map / document view Where to open the card box in the fullscreen mind map / document view

Working with the 3 Zettelkasten-styled card box

Inside the 3.1 Zettelkasten-styled card box

  • The buttons inside the Zettelkasten-styled card box are as follows:

1 Filter tags:

2 Switch card source: study set / mind map / document (as shown in "Switch card source" in the upper-right image above)

3 "Single-row display" button (as shown in the icon below)

Single-row display

4 Select cards (batch operations)

5 Edit card content

Buttons inside the card box Buttons inside the card box

Switch card source (study set / mind map / document) Switch card source (study set / mind map / document)

Action buttons appear after tapping a card Action buttons appear after tapping a card

Action buttons in the small-screen mind map Action buttons in the small-screen mind map

  • Tap the blank part of the card to bring up the action panel:
  • Edit card content. See: Mind Map Cards ①: Creating and Editing Cards
  • Tap the mind map location to open the card grouping board (see Card Grouping Board ①: Precisely Filtering a Huge Pool of Cards)
    1. Switch the card source (can be study set / mind map / document)
    2. Apply primary and secondary filtering
    3. Jump to the fullscreen mind map > ❗Can't backlink to the location? Check Study Set – More → Locate → whether Auto-locate to document/mind map position is enabled > > Enable Auto-locate to document/mind map position Enable Auto-locate to document/mind map position
  • Tap Document position to jump to the document location where the excerpt resides

❗For cards that contain text, tapping the text area of the card opens editing

To open the Edit / Backlink menu shown above, be sure to tap the blank or image area of the card