OrgPad Guide 🧭

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Everything you can do with OrgPad explained.

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Copy & paste

Bulleted lists are copied as individual cells

Copying from Reader Mode

How to insert one OrgPage into another?

Embedding

Drag and drop

Instructions

Images and files

Images and files can be easily inserted from the Internet or your computer directory.

Links

Videos

It can be from YouTube or even a .mp4 file from your computer.

Tip: Private YouTube videos work here too. Plus, there are no ads in embedded videos 🤩.

Like this

Long press - the cell comes out and at that point you can select and copy text

Dragging an OrgPage from the main page or title from an open OrgPage

Insert by dragging OrgPage from the main page

Example: you want to insert the OrgPage “Fireflies” into the OrgPage “Animals”.

1. Open the OrgPage “Animals” in a new tab.
2. On the home page, you search for the OrgPage “Fireflies”.
3. From there, drag the OrgPage into the “Animals” OrgPage tab and drop it into the canvas.

A cell is created that has:

• a title that matches the OrgPage name,
• a thumbnail that changes itself as you edit the page.

Insert by dragging a title from an open OrgPage

Export and import of documents

You can export a document from the side panel in three formats:

• OrgPad's internal format as EDN,
• JSON Canvas,
• Linear HTML (includes all images and uploaded files).

To import, go to the document list > side panel. Supported formats:

• EDN,
• JSON Canvas,
• LucidChart formats.

Learn more in the blog post Export and Import of Documents in OrgPad.

Moving cells and links between OrgPages

1. Select the cells and links. For example, on the original OrgPage, press Shift and drag to create a rectangle around the cells and links you want to select.
2. Cut the content. Press Ctrl + X. This copies the cells and links from the current OrgPage to your clipboard.
3. Open the target OrgPage. Navigate to the OrgPage where you want to move the cells and links.
4. Paste the content. Press Ctrl + V to paste the cells and links from the clipboard onto the new OrgPage.

The cells and links will now appear on the target OrgPage and will be removed from the original OrgPage. Removal may take some time.

Tip! Use this method to move cells and links between the embedding OrgPage and the source OrgPage.

Moving around canvas

Tip: When you make a copy of a document, the files and images are shared in between the copies, so no extra storage is used.

Printing and exporting to PDF

In the free and Standard plans, printing includes a watermark. To print without a watermark, upgrade to the Professional plan or use the plan for schools and enterprises.

You can only print documents that you have permission to edit. If you want to print a public document, you need to copy it first.

Printing is done to PDF. You can then either print your OrgPage on your printer or view it offline. At this moment, the entire OrgPage is printed in a collapsed state.

To access the print dialog, go to   side panel > Print to PDF.

Alternatively, use the keyboard shortcut:

• on Windows: Ctrl+P,
• on Mac OS: ⌘-P.

In the dialog, you can choose:

• print name,
• background color,
• paper size,
• orientation,
• what is printed.

Once you hit the Print to PDF button, there will be a brief wait as the printout is generated on our server. Upon completion, a message will provide you with a link to access your printout. Simply click the link, and it will open in a new tab.

You can find all your printotus in the   side panel underFiles and images.

Video tutorials on our YouTube channel Pavel Klavík

Double-click zooms the cell

When you can't see beyond the edge of the screen

When you need beyond the edge of the screen

Search in document

Inserting clippings

Like this

The arrows will show you the direction

Win + Shift + S

This keyboard shortcut lets you take screen clippings in Windows 10 and 11. After creating a clipping, the image is saved to the clipboard. Simply go to OrgPad, press Ctrl + V, and the image will appear. It has many uses.

When dragging a cell, swipe to the edge of the screen

Classic Ctrl + F works or click on the magnifying glass icon

Cells & links selection panel

Create links and cells

Bulk moving

Editor

Inserting code

To add code, click the green plus and choose Insert code.

• For inline code, press Ctrl+D (or Cmd+D on Mac) Example: double pi = 3.141592653589793;
• For a code block, use Shift+Ctrl+D (or Shift+Cmd+D) Example:

-- Find employees with above-average salary
SELECT name, salary
FROM employees
WHERE salary > (SELECT AVG(salary) FROM employees);

You can switch between inline and block using the button in the panel. Pressing Enter inside inline code turns it into a block automatically.

Learn more in the blog post Programming Language Highlighting in OrgPad.

Pasting math and chemistry

To insert math or chemistry, click the green plus → Math/Chemistry

LaTeX syntax is used for math.

Learn more in the blog post Math and Chemistry Added to Editor.

Ctrl + click on the style panel to copy the cell (link) style to the global style

Bulk copying or deleting

Copy using Ctrl+C and Ctrl+V.

You can copy content across OrgPages.

enables

Multiple cell connections at the same time

Bulk changing style (color, font size)

Mass opening and closing

And many more on our YouTube channel with concrete examples of use!

Fast binding in the same color

Quick creation of follow-up cells

How to copy style between cells (links)?

Multiple cell connections

Create a star

Create a chain

Selection

Select all at once

Select one at a time

Rectangular selection

Select only the elements with the same color

Extend selection

Deselect any element you don’t want

Expand (collapse) the selection to a star

Pulling a join/cell from the style change panel

Hold Ctrl and drag the next cell from the cell title

Shift + click on the style panel to change the cell (link) style to match the global style

If you don't want the wave to propagate further in that direction, unselect the cell by Ctrl + click.

Shift + click on arrow + click on other cells

Shift + click on arrow + click into the canvas

Ctrl + click on arrow + click into the canvas

Ctrl + A

Ctrl + click

Shift + drag

Double click with Ctrl

Ctrl + Shift + drag

Hold Ctrl and click

Ctrl + (Shift) + E or Ctrl + ⬆️ (⬇️)

How select items on phones and tablets?

Activate Selection Mode

To activate selection mode, click on the square icon.  You can find it:

• on mobile,  at the far right of the bottom panel,
• on tablet, in the top panel.

Add or Remove Items

• For individual items: To add or remove individual items (e.g., cells, images) to/from the selection, simply tap on them.
• For rectangular selection: To select multiple items at once, tap on an empty space on the canvas and hold your finger down. Then drag your finger to create a rectangular area that encompasses the items you want to select.

Tips for More Effective Selection:

• When making a rectangular selection, ensure all items you wish to select are within the rectangle.
• To remove an item from the selection, simply tap on it again.

Work together: teams, share, comments

Keyboard shortcuts

Extra tips

Locations

Locations are like steps in a presentation. You can find them in the side menu, where you can see a list of existing locations and create new ones.

You can find all about locations in the blog post Create and Share Locations Inside Your Document.

Title-less images keep their transparent backgrounds after uploading.

Emoticons can be inserted into text (including headings)

Gif animations

Opening all cells when sharing

Changing language

Pages in Cell

Add and delete another page

Swap pages

Hold Shift and click on the arrow.

Rotating cells around a point

Available only on devices with a keyboard and mouse/touchpad.

1. Select the cells you wish to rotate around a certain point.
2. Hold down the Alt key (or Option key on Mac).
3. Click on the point around which you want to rotate the cells, and drag the mouse left or right.

This feature allows you to organize your documents more easily and quickly than ever before.

Presentations

Creating a presentation

Find all your presentations under   side panel > Presentations.

If you haven’t created any yet, you’ll see just the ➕ Create Presentation button. Click it to star a new one.

OrgPage shortcuts

Presentations or locations

Editor

To get an image without background you can use this

https://www.remove.bg/

Win + .

There are smiley face options in windows 10, but also in other systems.

You can also enter, e.g., “pizza emoji” into the search engine and then insert with Ctrl+C, Ctrl+V.

Options

1. Find in the search engine, e.g., “laughing gif” and then drag it into the cell
2. Use program Screen to gif (used in this OrgPage, great for tutorials)
3. Custom animations of course

Ctrl + Shift + L

Working with a presentation

You can name a presentation or create a duplicate.

Below the name, you'll see a numbered list of its steps.

Adding a new step

Click ➕ Step or press the TAB key to add a new step.

Hold SHIFT while creating step to copy the camera from the previous step.

• SHIFT + ➕ Step
• SHIFT + TAB

Options

• Either set up a presentation with open cells
• Or type ?open=all
• if there is a question mark somewhere in the address, type &open=all

So if I wanted to share this OrgPage with you so that all the cells would open, the link would look like this:

https://orgpad.com/s/eSXICDgczX4?open=all

Setting a step

Click cells you want to include. They’ll open, and the camera will adjust automatically.If a cell has only a heading, it stays as it is.

You can also use the cell selection to precisely control:

• what is visible,
• which cells the camera focuses on,
• which cells are open or closed.

Opening and closing cells

By default, all cells are collapsed.

The simplest way to open a cell is to click it.

To open or close multiple cells, select them and click the icon   or in the selection panel.

Camera

The camera is shown as a blue dashed rectangle. Everything inside it will be focused in the step.

To add cells to the camera:

• Hover over a cell and press Q to toggle it in the camera.
• Select multiple cells:
  • Press Q or click the icon to set the camera to the selection.
  • SHIFT + Q or SHIFT + adds to the camera.
  • ALT (OPTION on Mac) + Q or ALT +  removes from the camera.

Cell visibility

All cells are visible by default. Hidden ones appear semi-transparent.

To change visibility:

• Hover over a cell and press W to make it visible or hidden.
• Select multiple cells:
  • Press W or click the icon to keep only those visible.
  • SHIFT + W or SHIFT + adds them to what's visible.
  •  ALT (OPTION on Mac) + W or ALT +  hides them.

On MacOS, use Cmd ⌘ instead of Ctrl and Option instead of Alt.

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