The BoxPress SmartExpression

Once you have enabled evaluation of other notes’ text, you are home free. BoxPress uses this to maximum effect with its novel SmartExpression. A SmartExpression is a Tinderbox modular display expression whose segments are all conditional on booleans—that is, on checkboxes. Here, for example, is the display expression for normal_note:

Now you can modify the display expression for all your normal-notes very easily. There are two methods.

• Direct method—Invoke the Get Info popover (⌥⌘I) and select what you want to show:

Just set the $DEBips, $DECount, $DEDate, $DEIcons, and $DENum to create what you want. (The $DEExport you see there is a separate trigger—it determines whether the note exports with its title set to $Name or to $DisplayName.)

•  Stamp method—Select normal_note and run the appropriate stamp: