You can then add specific (either individual or multiple) cells to a given keyword by right clicking on the cell control and selecting ‘add keyword’. For example, I have keywords for the different articles I’m writing, keywords related to different methods (‘discourse analysis’, ‘ethnography’) and keywords for particular theories or concepts (e.g. First, you set up whatever keywords that are useful for you. The keywords in CPN are extremely useful as they offer you a powerful way of tagging text. However, you can also just hold the cmd button down when you press enter in regular mode, for the same result.Īs I mentioned in my previous post on CPN, this app has a powerful multidex, and one of the features within the multidex is the ‘keywords’ section.

In paragraph mode, using the enter key will move the cursor to the next line, rather than create a new cell. If you want your cells to contain several paragraphs of text, you can switch to paragraph mode. You can adjust the line spacing between different cells, it’s easy to move cells up or down using drag and drop, CPN can organise children of a parent cell according to a range of criteria, you can make the cell controls invisible if they are indented or empty, and you can also add a check box to a cell or assign it a due date. There are a number of options for adapting your outlines. This makes it very easy to organise your notes, as you can work with multi level indents and and collapse/ expand your outlines as needed. Notes pages are, by default, organised in outlines. One of the most useful features of the notes pages is the outlining tool. However, they offer a range of useful features that help keep your research notes organised, so in this post I’ll briefly outline how note pages can be used to support your academic note taking, and at the end I’ll also say a little bit about the Cornell note taking pages. In my previous post on Circus Ponies Notebooks, I kind of glossed over the note pages – because up until that point, I hadn’t used them much.

Circus ponies notebook