Notebooks for iPhone Answers

Dynamically Including Documents, Notes and Drawings

Kim Aldis, July 20, 2011 14:37

As far as I can see it's not possible to insert documents, drawings or other notes in a note. Not as in cut/paste but as in inserting the item in such a way that changes to the item are reflected in the including document. Just like #include or

Great app, by the way :-)

Alfons Schmid, July 21, 2011 13:06

Hi Kim,

this is an excellent idea! We had not thought of a "dynamic" summary of documents before.

The great news is that you can already create that in the current version by adding an iFrame to a formatted Markdown document and pointing that frame to the document that should be displayed. Here is an example:

All you need to change in the above example is the contents of "src". For that, just select "Copy Link" from the target document in Notebooks and paste that link as source. This is all. You can of course add any http link and thus integrate contents from the web.

We will see if we can provide a more comfortable way in a future update.

Thanks again and kind regards,
Alfons

Kim Aldis, July 21, 2011 14:14

you just made my day.

This goes in the plain text or the html section?

Kim Aldis, July 21, 2011 14:33

Hot damn, it works. Thanks.
Interestingly, it always expands to full size, even if I specify small px values.

Kim Aldis, July 21, 2011 14:54

OK, I use %age for frame size and I get a smaller frame but no scroller. No biggy, just thought you'd like to know. This is really cool, I've been looking for this forever.

Kim Aldis, July 21, 2011 14:57

got a frame border but still no scroll bar

Alfons Schmid, July 21, 2011 15:59

I experimented a bit more with that, and the results are not always perfect. It seems that the frame does not always match the size of the embedded document...

The iOS does not show scroll bars, this is a restriction we cannot get aroung. Maybe iOS5 will improve that, we'll have to check that out.

Kim Aldis, July 21, 2011 16:38

OK. It's doing what I want for now though.