tags: chapter help shortcuts modified time attachments additional columns special columns tutorial created time

- Additional columns -

Each item will automatically have 3 additional columns on the right side - the first is for filename, second for created date and third for modified date. This is useful for any item, but it's particularly useful for diary entries and similar type of records, because without any further effort you will be able to sort them by date. If you wish to be able to look at the list of diary entries filtered by certain month and year, you can add them as tags when you enter each diary, e.g. you might add two tags, 'nov' and '2008', and then filtering by these tags will only show you relevant items.

- Attaching shortcuts -

You might be wondering about the field at the bottom labeled 'attached file'. This field allows you to use Tobu as a tag-based filesystem - at least, for the purpose of searching for files or sets of files. You may attach any type of a file to the item and describe it with tags. Hitting 'open' will open the file with the associated viewer app. In addition, you can use this feature to attach a file to illustrate or expand on the body of an item; for instance the lentils entry could have a jpeg of lentils attached to it.

You can also drag and drop files into text area or in attach area, they will show up in attach area either way.