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How to use the Styles Dash

The Styles Dashboard
The Styles Dashboard

The Styles Dash path is BlogTopNote/Dashboards/Dash: Styles.

The Styles Dash is a collection of notes (and two adornments) that resembles a webpage with a bunch of widgets at the top. Since these notes are meant to display information, their actual names (the value of $Name) are replaced by their message. The $Names of dashboard notes should never be changed because they are referenced by your templates, boilerplate, macros, and CSS files.

To see the actual name of a dashboard note, just open it in the Text Pane with ⌘5. The other way to view hidden $Names is to add a column in Outline View.

You can also use ⌥⌘X to open a free-floating Text Window (rather than a Text Pane)—but this does not work in all cases since two of the widgets are adornments, which can only be “opened” via the Text Pane.

Adding a $Name column in Outline View is a good way to reveal the dashboard notes’ actual names.
Adding a $Name column in Outline View is a good way to reveal the dashboard notes’ actual names.

Every note in the Styles Dash does something. In the Directories Dash you made changes by tweaking the note’s text. Here, you makes changes by tweaking the notes’ key attributes.