Writing & Editing
Let's talk about text. Because each Tyle is a doc, after all. If you can type in a doc, you can use Tyles. While you’re welcome to stop there, with a clean writing surface, you can also add many different types of content to a Tyle, and move it around and modify it in new ways. You can think of every Tyle as a stack of "blocks" you choose and arrange.
What's a block?
Tyles’ "content blocks" ensure that each Tyle has the ability to evolve and grow, giving you the autonomy to tailor it exactly to your needs. A block is any piece of content you add to a Tyle,
- A paragraph or line of plain text
- A bullet in a list
- A heading
- A Tyle (since you can put Tyles inside Tyles inside Tyles)
- Etc.
Editing tools
There are three tools to familiarize yourself with in order to customise any Tyle how you like it – that includes adding blocks.
The + and ⋮⋮ icon both appear in the left whenever you hover over content block or a new line.
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+ icon: Click it to open a menu of content types you can add to your Tyle.
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⋮⋮ icon: Click it to open a menu of actions you can take on the block. This icon also functions as a handle you can use to for drag-and-drop.
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/ commands are the simplest way to both add content to your Tyle or apply any of the actions above. It's basically a shortcut or the same functionality of the + and ⋮⋮ icons.
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Styling
With Tyles, you get what you need from a word processor, along with many things you'd never expect. Every Tyle is a state-of-the-art text editor. Highlight any text in order for the toolbar to appear.
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Group & Ungroup Blocks
With Tyles you'll have complete flexibility – e.g. having the ability to group blocks. Blocks can be grouped to become their own Tyle by selecting multiple blocks and hitting Group into Tyle.
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This grouping can be reversed after the fact too by hitting right click and select Turn into text.
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This feature provides a lot of power for organizing your notes, such as grouping blocks when a given note grows unwieldy and needs some added structure.
Customisation
Tyles can be displayed in two different ways fullwidth view and in-line view.
- In order to switch to the inline view, click the options button, which will appear on hover.
- Click on display and select inline.
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In order to switch to the fullwidth view, click the 3 dots button, which will appear on hover. Click on display and select fullwidth.
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Anything still unclear?
We’d love to hear from you. If you have any questions or ideas, just shoot us a message to hi@tyles.io. Cheers!