Create Note-Taking Files Options

When you use the Create Links dialog to create a note-taking file, we normally recommend that you accept the default options. To open this dialog, open your Ibidem database, and select the record for which you would like to create a note-taking file. Click the Create New Link button or click Links, New. Then click the Note-Taking File radio button. You will see that the default options are automatically filled in.

Auto-Name Mode: When this box is checked (as recommended), the name of the note-taking file will be the name of the database followed by a hyphen, then the number of the record and the Nota Bene extension (.nb). The location will be a subfolder of the folder that contains the database files will be created with the same name as the filename used for the database, followed by the number 1.

File Name and Location: If Auto-Name Mode is not checked, you choose the name and location of your note-taking files. Click the pencil buttons to edit.

Display: Use the dropdown list to choose to display the filename or the full path.

Paper size: Use the drop down list to choose the paper size for your note-taking files. The file can be formatted for American 8.5x11 in paper, 5x8 or 4x6 notecard, or European A4 paper.

You can take your reading notes in this file, and return to it at any time by clicking the Record Link button or by double-clicking the green link in the Record Link field. When you are taking notes, short form citations can be inserted in the note-taking file to keep a record of page number(s). Place your cursor where you want to insert a record of the page number, and press Ctrl+Ins, or right-click and select Cite Page Number. The Insert/Edit Citation dialog will open. For more information, see Note-Taking File: Adding Page Numbers.

Once note-taking files have been generated, there is a special type of Orbis textbase that will index all of the files that are associated with your bibliographic database.