Book

Write a Book, Blog or Report

In Notewrap, you can take notes whenever imagination strikes, later add these notes to a notebook and write a book, blog or essay. After you add them, you can convert these notes into scenes and then arrange and combine them into chapters and create a book, blog or essay as shown below.

Add Notes
Each Chapter on New Page
Scenes into Chapters
PDF

– Add notes to a notebook, convert them into scenes that would belong to a chapter and arrange the scenes in the order you want them to appear in the chapters (How to add to & arrange notes in a notebook?).   

– Each chapter has to begin on a new page, to do that tap edit button on the top right of the screen, then select the first scene of the chapter and then set New Page on by tapping the New Page button as shown in screenshot 2 above. 

– To combine scenes into chapters, you will have to make sure that they are published & printed continuously and that each scene doesn’t begin on a new page, to do that tap the second scene of chapter one and then set New Page off by tapping the New Page button as shown in screenshot 3 above. Repeat this for remaining scenes in the chapter.  

– That’s it, your book, blog or essay is ready to be published & printed, Notewrap will use the settings to create a beautiful pdf for you where it will automatically wrap the scenes into chapters and start each new chapter on a new page. You can also add front and back matter to your book, blog or essay as shown in the screenshots above. Notewrap also lets you export your notes, photos & notebooks into various file formats such as plain text, html, markdown, rtf, pdf etc.

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Format Text

Format Toolbar

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The format toolbar is displayed whenever you edit a note, photo or a notebook, to edit a note simply tap on the text and it will display the note in edit mode where the keyboard will slide up from the bottom and it will display the format text toolbar just above the keyboard, it has 5 formatting options that is Style, Bullet, Indent, Align and More. Style to style text as bold, italic, underline and strikethrough, Bullet to create bullet lists, Indent to indent first line and paragraph,  Align to align text and More with some more options like creating a hyper link.

Style

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Tap the Style button on the Format Toolbar to style text, it displays buttons such as bold, italic, underline and strikethrough to style text in bold, italic, underline or strikethrough font, simply select text and tap any of the style button to style text in the font style you want, to style text back to the regular font e.g from bold font select the bold text and tap the bold button to style it back to regular from bold. To go back to the main Format Text Toolbar tap the back button.

Bullet

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Tap the Bullet button on the Format Toolbar to create bullet lists, you can create lists such as todos, shopping list etc. using the bullet toolbar, type in the title and create your list in the note section by tapping the note placeholder, after you type in an item tap return to move to the next line and type in the next item, similarly create other items, once you are done select the entire list, then tap any of the bullet list button i.e. classic bullet, dash or numbered bullet to create the bullet list in the style that you want. If you finished e.g. with a todo item then simply tap that item and then tap the tick button, it will apply the strikethrough font over the item to indicate that you are finished with that todo item.

Indent

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To indent text tap the indent button from the format toolbar and it will display the indent options. In Notewrap you can indent the first line of a paragraph, to do that simply tap  anywhere on the paragraph and then tap the button with arrow pointing right to the line to increase indent of the first line, you can tap button multiple times to increase indent to how much you want it. Similarly you can decrease indent by tapping the button with arrow pointing left to the line to decrease indent of the first line as shown in screenshot 1. To increase or decrease indent for the whole paragraph  tap the increase or decrease indent button as shown in screenshot 2.   

Hyperlink

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To create hyperlink in Notewrap select the More button from the format toolbar, then select the text on which you want to create the hyperlink as shown in screenshot 1 and click the link button, the add link dialog box will popup where you will have to enter the full hyperlink address along with the http or https protocol as shown in screenshot 2. A hyperlink text will be highlighted with the highlight text color, tap link to go to the target hyperlink or select the hypertext and tap the link button to edit the hyperlink.

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How to Write a Blog?

Blog Writing Made Simple

Write A Blog

With Notewrap its really simple to write a blog, you write it like any other note and use Notewrap’s elegant text formatting feature to format the text, most of us who write a blog also include one or more images in the Blog, with the recently introduced link feature it’s even more simple to write a blog with images.

To include an image in a blog, first add the image to your website, most website creators like WordPress lets you add images to your website and shows all images in your media folder, you can then simply add that image link to your blog.

When you export a blog to markdown, the link gets converted to markdown image syntax by default so that the image is displayed on your blog, also on WordPress, you can install the Phoenix Media Rename plugin to rename images after you add them to media, to rename image simply go the image in the media folder, tap edit more details, it will show you a text box with the filename, give a simple and meaningful name to your image and then tap update to save the image with the new filename, giving nice meaningful names to your media will also improve your websites SEO.

Once you have exported blog to markdown from Notewrap, you can then use the import markdown tool of the website builder to import or convert markdown to html post, e.g. for WordPress you can install the WP Githuber MD plugin which allows you to paste the markdown text to the left of the window and gives you a preview of the blog on the right and once you are done you can hit the publish button to post the blog.

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