The Now & Later Board is designed to allow you to quickly "dump" the contents of your brain onto a piece of virtual paper. Vitamin-R's FastType feature helps you create standard ways of jotting down your thoughts -- with a minimum of fuss, and without your fingers ever having to leave the keyboard.
In essence, you use some easy-to-type symbols that are then transformed automatically into more elaborate formatting.
Bulleted Lists
At the beginning of a line, type a single asterisk ("star" or "*") character and press the space bar to create a bulleted list.
"* " becomes 1st level bullet point
You can then use Return/Enter to create a new bullet line, and the Tab and Shift-Tab keys to change the indentation level.
Action Item Lists
At the beginning of a new line, type a plus sign ("+") and then press the spacebar:
+␣ ⇒ 1st level action item
Numbered List
At the beginning of a new line, type the number 1, followed by a period, and then press the spacebar:
1. ␣ ⇒ 1st level numbered list item
Checkmarks
Anywhere in the text, type "done" followed by a single quote, and it will be replaced by a checkmark.
done' ⇒ ✔
Striking Out a Line
Just type "--" at the end of a line to strike out the entire line. This is especially useful for "ticking off" action items.
Line Separator
At the beginning of a new line, type two minus signs to create a horizontal bar for separating sections.
-- ⇒ ────────────────────────────────
Putting It All Together
Putting these simple rules together, you can quickly create multi-level to-do lists and check off items as they are completed. For example:
Write Help Topic for Now & Later Board
➤ Write Help Topic for Now & Later Board ✔
➤ Write Help Topic for Fast Type - bullets - action items - checkmark - separator - example
──────────────────────────────── At the end of the time slice:
➤ Phone Tracy about record deal
──────────────────────────────── Grocery List:
Veg - Turnips (fresh) - Salad Dairy - Yogurts for the kids - 3x Milk
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