Import Multiple Notes To A Single Heading

If you plan to post all of your hard-copy notes under a single heading –

for example, under the Project heading Modern Cookery For Private Families –

prepare them as follows:

1. Read your raw notes into a text document via a dictation programme (e.g. Dragon Naturally Speaking). N.B. Ensure that you dictate a heading title before each note, separated from it by a tab.

Why must you incorporate a heading title before each note?

Say that these 3 notes were destined for a Project called Modern Cookery For Private Families.

Illustrate produce as the housekeeper would see it in the market?

Illustrate with woodcuts?

Show cookware?

How would the application know under which Project title to file them?

They don’t have a heading title.

If they were amended to look like this:

Modern Cookery For Private Families Illustrate produce as the housekeeper would see it in the market?

Modern Cookery For Private Families Illustrate with woodcuts?

Modern Cookery For Private Families Show cookware?

that is, as a series of heading titles, each followed by a tab space, then a note –

the import facility would know to place them under the Project heading Modern Cookery For Private Families.

If you already have a small set of raw notes without Category/Project titles –

such as:

Illustrate produce as the housekeeper would see it in the market?

Illustrate with woodcuts?

Show cookware?

you may simply copy and paste the Project title –

for example, Modern Cookery For Private Families –

from Little Acorns to the beginning of each row in your document –

then enter a tab space to separate it from the preceding note.

So that they look like this:

Modern Cookery For Private Families Illustrate produce as the housekeeper would see it in the market?

Modern Cookery For Private Families Illustrate with woodcuts?

Modern Cookery For Private Families Show cookware?

Why should you copy and paste the Project title from Little Acorns, rather than type it in from memory?

If you plan to file your notes under an existing heading, you must use precisely the same title that appears in the application.

Even an additional space at the end of a heading will be interpreted by the application as a different title from one without a space.

(That said, don’t worry if you misspell a heading title, and, so, instruct Little Acorns to create the misspelt heading to accommodate your notes.

You may transfer your notes from the misspelt heading to the correct one at the click of a button; then delete the misspelt heading from the application.)

You may automate the insertion of a heading title before a series of notes as follows:

1. Save the document containing your notes as a .txt file. For example, as:

document.txt

2. Open this .txt document in Notepad++.
3. Open the Notepad++ Replace dialogue, by pressing Ctrl+H.
4. On the Replace panel, enter the following character in the Find What field:

^

5. In the Replace With field, paste your Project title, followed by the tab symbol:

\t

So, in my example, this would be:

Modern Cookery For Private Families\t

6. Check the Regular Expression radio button.
7. Click the Replace All button. This will insert your Category/Project title at the beginning of every line. And a tab between this heading title and each note.
8. Save the Notepad ++ file.
9. Import its contents into Little Acorns using the import facility, found under the >>dashboard layout.