Capture and lists

The Glob List Panel lets you collect material without arranging it on the canvas immediately. A note such as “Try a smaller garden bed” can stay as a short capture, grow into a longer note, or appear on a canvas when you want to connect it to other ideas.

Choose a view#

The three tabs are Nodes, Snippets and Tasks.

In Nodes, the project picker chooses the canvas. If you have entered a node's own canvas, the list follows that interior and the breadcrumb shows where you are. Selecting a Nodes row selects and centres the node on the canvas. Selecting a Snippets or Tasks row opens a compact editor in the panel.

Use Nodes and the editor for writing, and Tasks and projects for task completion, dates and project management.

Capture a note or task#

Select Snippets or Tasks, type into the entry field and press Enter. You can also choose the return-arrow control labelled Capture. Blank or whitespace-only input does not create anything. The field clears after a successful capture; a failure displays a status message.

Capture uses the list currently selected for that section. Snippets and Tasks remember separate choices while you work. Changing the Nodes project does not change either destination. For example, you can keep Snippets in a “Reading” list while Tasks shows “Garden jobs”.

To create directly on the canvas, use Create a node… in Nodes and press Enter. If there is no selected project, Glob opens the project picker. Canvas creation has its own idea and task control.

Opening list search temporarily replaces capture with a search field. Closing search restores the capture draft. This is a draft in the current page: submit it before reloading or closing the page.

Choose a named list#

A note can become a named list through Make List on its own menu. A task uses Make Task List. These actions make the item available in its section's list chooser. They do not require a separate type of document.

Right-click the Snippets or Tasks tab to open Switch list or Switch task list. Choose a named list, or Root to return to that section's root. Right-clicking Nodes opens the project picker instead.

The two list choices are independent and return to Root after a page reload. Making a project is a separate action; projects belong in the Nodes picker. Removing an item from the named-list choices uses Remove List or Remove Task List on that item's menu.

Nest and move rows#

In a private list, drag one row onto another to put it inside that item. The receiving row does not have to be a named list already. A chevron appears when it has children; use it to collapse or expand them. A folded branch can show a count of hidden descendants.

Dropping on the list's empty background puts the item at the top level of the list you are viewing. At Root, this removes its list nesting. In Nodes, a row-to-row drop changes the parent on that canvas; a background drop clears that parent. Glob refuses a move that would put an item inside itself or its descendants.

After moving rows into another list item, a Moved … into … notice offers Undo for six seconds. Another change can dismiss it sooner. Undoing… means the restoration is running; “Undo failed; the move was kept.” means the move remains. This Undo belongs to that move, not to all editing actions.

Select several notes or tasks#

In Snippets and Tasks:

• Ctrl-click, or Cmd-click on a Mac, toggles a row in the selection.
• Shift-click selects a range from the selection anchor.
• Drag from the left gutter or empty list space to draw a selection. Hold Alt or Option to start this selection over a row; plain dragging a row moves it.
• Hold Shift while drawing a selection to add to the existing selection.
• With the list itself focused, Ctrl+A or Cmd+A selects its visible rows. Up and Down move focus; add Shift to extend a range.

Drag a selected row to move the selected group. If both a parent and its child are selected, the parent carries its contents rather than moving the same child twice. Escape clears the selection. Changing view, search or list destination also clears it.

On touch, press and hold a row to open its menu and choose Select. Tap rows or their selection controls to toggle them, then use Done to leave selection mode.

Move between a list and the canvas#

Drag a note or task from its list onto a private canvas to place that existing item. Its deliberate list reference can remain, so you can reach the same writing from both surfaces.

Dragging a canvas node into a note or task list adds list membership and keeps it on the canvas. Dropping onto a row nests it there; dropping onto the background adds it to the list being shown. A grouped list that contains the wrong kind of items can ask Convert list to tasks? or Convert list to notes? Review the items affected before choosing Convert; use Cancel to leave them as they are.

Shared canvases have a different copying boundary. Read Sharing projects before dragging private material onto one.

Row menus and deletion#

Right-click a row, or press and hold it on touch, for its actions. Snippets offers note actions including hashtags and Look up; Tasks offers task actions such as Due and subtasks. Brainstorm and Summarize are not offered from these two list menus. Nodes has the broader node menu. Open in new tab is available from note and task row menus.

On touch, swipe left to reveal Delete. A private tree row also exposes a trash control on pointer hover. For current private records, deleting from a list removes that list location; deleting from Nodes removes the placement on that canvas. Other locations remain. If no location or list reference remains, the record goes to trash.

For example, if “Measure the bed” is in Tasks and on your Garden canvas, deleting its Tasks row leaves its canvas placement. Read the confirmation and current view carefully when deleting a project or a group: those are broader actions.

If a row says This record cannot be read, it is not an ordinary empty note. Keep the displayed identifier for support and see Troubleshooting.