The Stack Help

Quick Guide & Tips

The Stack is a simple application for capturing quick ideas and "notes to self".

It is currently work-in-progress and moving fast. The details on this page may be out of date!

Usage

The main view is a list of notes, most recent on top.

Tapping on a note in the list allows you to edit it.

Tapping on the large plus button at the bottom-right makes a new note (⌘N).

Each note in the list consists of a single editable piece of text.

If you include #hashtags in the text, they will show up in the index as tags.

You can pull a note to the top of the list using the up-arrow button.

Tapping on a tag in the index takes you to a view of that tag. You can edit the tag name here, and also see all the other notes it is attached to. If you tap the plus button on this view, the new note will automatically start with the relevant hashtag included.

Completing Notes

When you're editing a note, the button at the top-right allows you to change its state. A new note starts in the "To Do" state. You can set notes to "Completed" to mark them as done, but there are some other statuses too: "Abandoned", "Paused", and so on.

You can quickly mark notes as done in the index by swiping them from left-to-right. You can delete them instead by swiping the other way.

Viewing Completed And Deleted Notes

By default, the note list only shows notes that are not marked as completed.

You can change the filter on the list of notes to also include completed notes, and/or deleted notes (⌘1/⌘2/⌘3).

Doing this allows you to tap on a completed or deleted note. You can then edit it if you want to, or can use the top-right hand button to change it back into a non-deleted or non-completed note.

Shortcuts (macOS/iPadOS)

• ⌘N - Create a new note.
• ⌘1/⌘2/⌘3 - Change notes filter to view completed and/or deleted notes.
• ⌘⏎ (command-return) - Navigate back to the previous view.
• ⌘I - View the note list.
• ⌘T - View a list of all tags.