Notes

Present › Notes is a notes editor built for the person preaching and the person operating.

Notes are free on every plan, and stored on your own machine.

Writing

Notes are rich text: headings, bold, lists, and they save automatically as you type. There is no save button.

The list on the left holds every note; the editor fills the rest. Notes are kept locally, so they are available whether or not you are signed in or online.

At the top of the page, above the text, is the heading shown on screen. It is optional. When you set one, it appears above every page and every sentence you send from that note, on the display output and on Program. It is separate from the note's name in the list, which is only how you file it.

Pages

A note is shown to the room one page at a time. RheoCast splits the note into pages for you, breaking only between paragraphs and list items, and shows the page count beside the pager at the bottom of the editor.

• Show page puts the current page on the display output and into any scene that carries a Sermon Note source.
• ‹ and › step through the pages and show each one as you go. ← / → and Page Up / Page Down do the same when the editor is not focused; from inside the editor use ⌘⇧N / ⌘⇧P (Ctrl on Windows).
• Esc clears the page from the screen. The page strip button beside the pager shows every page as a thumbnail; click one to show it.

Each page fills the screen. A page the splitter packed full reads at the reference size, a lighter page, such as the last one, grows toward the screen, and a page that had to be squeezed to avoid stranding a line or two shrinks a little. Growth is bounded so one page is never far larger than the page beside it. One paragraph longer than a whole page cannot be split, so it takes a page of its own and shrinks as far as it must; breaking a very long paragraph into shorter ones keeps every page large.

Go Live

The Go Live switch in the note's header opens the display window, the same switch Scripture and Songs have. Pages are always sent, so the Sermon Note source on Program works with the switch off; the switch only decides whether there is a display window to see them in. Turning it off closes the window but leaves the page on Program until you clear it.

Sending a sentence to air

Highlight any sentence in a note and press ⌘⇧L (Ctrl+Shift+L). It shows as a lower third over every scene, riding above whatever you cut to, until you clear it. A lower third and a page can be up at the same time.

Clear note in the header takes both the lower third and the page off air.

A lower third needs a scene on Program. If nothing is live, there is nowhere to send the sentence to.

Notes on Program

Two things in the Broadcast tab read from Notes:

• The Sermon Note source shows the current page inside that scene, in the box you give it, in the scripture panel style you pick for it.
• A note design you make in the overlay designer (Overlays › Create your own › Design it yourself, category Notes) becomes an overlay layer that receives every sentence you send, in your own layout. See Overlays.

Exporting

Notes export to PDF, or copy to the clipboard as text, useful for putting the outline in a bulletin or an email.

Notes and Creator Studio

These are different things and it is worth knowing which you want:

• Notes are what you write, before and during the service.
• Creator Studio › Notes are generated from the transcript after the service, a structured outline of what was actually preached.

See Creator Studio.