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Back to the passage. On to the next idea.

Preview documents from home, browse with the arrow keys and return to your reading position. A clear document path keeps the project and its folders within reach.

Nodary quick look with previous and next document controls, project breadcrumbs and a dark document reader
Inside Nodary · Demonstration data

Finding a document is only half the task. The useful detail may be halfway down the page, and the next source may be beside it. This update brings those small transitions together.

Look through documents without leaving your list

From home, choose a document’s preview button or focus its title and press Space. Left and right arrows move through the filtered collection; the column browser uses the current folder or search results. Previous and next buttons work on touch screens too. Escape closes the preview and returns focus to where you opened it. Reading tabs and input fields keep their own keyboard controls.

Return to the passage you left

The reader remembers your position in this browser. Home offers your last visited document when it is still in your accessible library. The saved position uses a block reference and an offset, so it can follow the passage when content above it changes. If that block has disappeared, the reader falls back to your progress through the document.

Keep the document’s location in view

A document path shows the workspace, project, folders and current document in readers and column browsing. Follow a project or folder link to explore its neighbors. The same location component is also available in the editor.

Try it in your workflow

  1. Open the example home and choose a document preview, or focus a document title and press Space.
  2. Use the left and right arrows to browse. Escape returns to the list.
  3. Read further down a document, close it and return home. Choose Continue to pick up the passage in the same browser.
Try the example

Reading positions are local to the browser and workspace, with up to 100 document references. They do not sync across devices and do not store document text or titles. Browser storage must be available. A removed or inaccessible document is omitted from the home shortcut. This is navigation memory, not an offline backup of document edits. The public example contains demonstration data.

Keep exploring

The Home of Frostline Studio, a fictional games studio, in Nodary: under Your projects, the name of Project Kestrel has turned into a field holding the new name, Glasswing, typed in place beside its 3 documents, with Ember Tactics and Tidewater below and the documents to jump back into above.
Teams and access

Rename a workspace or a project where you see its name.

Press F2 on a project’s or a workspace’s name, or choose Rename in its menu, and the name becomes a field where it stands: on Home, in the top bar, on the map, in Columns or from Ctrl+K. Every open tab follows, and the team’s history keeps each rename.

Read the story
Design pillars of Saltmarrow, a fictional sample project, in Nodary’s editor, opened from the map: Back to the map · Vision at the start of the header, the words “The tide is the clock” selected in a heading with the bubble above them offering B, I, U, S, Link and Turn into, then Clarify, Shorten, Tone and Comment, and below, a list whose items keep their bold “Do:” and “Don’t:”.
Documents

Write by hand, with the keys you already know.

A new document has a line to type on, bold and links stay in lists and tables, a bubble formats what you select and the shortcuts of other editors work. The way back from a document names where it goes, and gets there.

Read the story