Documentation / Library, tags and boards
Adding items from the app
Upload files, save an address, drop, or paste — the ways in that do not involve the extension.
The extension is the fast way in, but it is not the only one. The ⊕ button in the toolbar adds things straight from the library.
The ⊕ menu#
| Choice | What it does |
|---|---|
| Upload files… | Pick images or videos from your computer. |
| Save a link… | Saves an address as a bookmark: the page's title, its own description, and a preview image the server fetches. |
| Save an image… | Downloads the image at an address and stores it as an image. |
| Save a video… | Downloads the video at an address, transcodes it, and stores it as a video. |
The three address rows are separate on purpose. The same URL is a legitimate answer to all three — a YouTube address is a bookmark, or a video, depending on what you meant — and only you know which.
Drop and paste#
- Drop files anywhere on the library window.
- Paste an image from the clipboard with CtrlV (⌘V) — a screenshot goes straight in. A paste into the search box, a tag field or a description stays where you put it; the library only takes a paste that was not aimed at a field.
Both open the same confirm step as Upload files…: the destination project, the list of files, and an optional set of tags for all of them.
While it uploads#
Uploads run in a tray in the corner, one request per file. A large video does not hold the app hostage, and a file that fails can be retried on its own without touching the others. You can keep browsing, tagging and searching while it works.
Tagging on the way in#
Every one of these dialogs takes tags, applied to everything in the batch. The link dialog also has an Auto-tag checkbox, which starts wherever the destination project's setting stands — so a project that annotates on save annotates this too, and you can turn it off for one save without going into the project to do it.