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Some critical shortcuts
(Note to authors: Edit this document not in the wiki, but rather in the graph, at :JwGnhoHw23PfCIyp:.)
This document aspires to stay brief while explaining everything necessary to use Semantic Synchrony . The howto provides more detail.
Most of the time, probably, you will be "visiting" a note in the "forward view". To do this is to view its title in the title bar and its content, which consists of other notes, in the buffer.
Each line of the buffer lists a note's title. The two numbers on the right count "backward branches" (the number of notes to which that note belongs) and "forward branches" (the number which belong to it). A backward branch count is highlighted in yellow if greater than 1. Notes with markdown content carry a purple flag. Notes with markdown content and forward-branches carry a red flag.
The backward view is similar, but rather than listing notes belonging to the visited note, the buffer lists notes to which the visited note belongs.
Some commands are not always available.
Shortcuts that begin with C-c are only available in smsn-mode. Other shortcuts that start with C- or M- are built into Emacs. Every command normally available in Emacs is available when Emacs is in smsn-mode. Move-submode, which is part of smsn-mode, offers some commands that don't require a modifier key. For instance, when in move-submode, you can press b to see a backward-view -- handy, but it means the letter b is not available for ordinary text entry.
When you switch to move-submode, a message says so in the minibuffer, and the cursor becomes green. (Unless you're using smsn in the emacs-smsn docker bundle, in which case the cursor cannot change color.)
For speed, these shortcuts free you from having to move your hand between the letters and the arrow keys.
To move by many spaces instead of one, use a capital letter instead of a lowercase one.
The search uses Lucene syntax. Examples of valid searches include cat, cat* (words that start with "cat"), cats OR dogs, cats AND dogs, (cats OR dogs) AND "ironic contemplation", ...
Show the notes which the visited note links to.
Show the notes which link to the visited note.
height can be a number from 1 to 7.
This shortcut is only available from forward-view and backward-view.
You could reasonably call this "reload". It's nice to have because your edits from a different buffer can change the things in this one.
To edit a note's title (its text), just change the text where you see it. Just be sure not to edit the note's leading bullet, or the space immediately after that bullet, because some hidden characters in that space encode the note's ID. The ID is a random-looking string like ":Y2rcZ4zKAoCBRfBw:".
The new note will be (initially) titled "life, the universe, and everything". "Visiting" it means viewing a buffer containing the (currently empty, because it was just created) list of notes that it links to.
Create a new note in a list of notes by simply typing what looks like another one. (This can only be done from the forward view.)
It must start with a bullet -- a single non-whitespace character, followed by some whitespace. After that on the same line, write the note's title. With no whitespace before the bullet, the new note becomes a member of the first generation. Whitespace before the bullet can be used to make it a member of a later generation, but only if it has a full chain of intermediate ancestors, and only if that generation is already visible.
Remember, to copy the note and not just its text, include the bullet.
The default priority is 0.
Nonzero priority causes some amount of underlining and leads to a higher position in text search results.
The default weight is 0.5.
High weight causes some amount of bold font and leads to a higher position in text search results. Low weight has the reverse effect.
Todo: Document.
You could reasonably call this "save".
You could reasonably call this "reload". It's nice to have because your edits from a different buffer can change the things in this one.
Emacs "frames" contain Emacs "windows", which display Emacs "buffers". The buffer is some text, the window is the thing that shows you a buffer, and the frame holds some windows. ("What everyone else in the world calls windows are called “frames” by emacs.")