Fast Type Syntax

Vitamin-R’s Note Pads are 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 a first 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.

-- ⇒ ────────────────────────────────