can I open notes in separate tabs?

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1

I’m new to DTP 2. I’d like to be able to view notes in separate tabs. If I highlight a note and choose “Open in Tabs…”, nothing happens.

Am I misunderstanding something?

2

Look in the Tabs bar. Was a new tab created? If so, click on it. There’s your opened note.

In Preferences > General - Interface, is ‘Enable tabbed browsing’ checked?

3

Yes. So I should be able to select a note and choose Data > Open in Tabs and have the note opened in a new tab? I’m in 3-pane view, by the way.

4

To Open in Tabs there must be two or more documents (notes) selected. There is no change when only one document is selected.

5

Thanks, but this doesn’t work like the paradigmatic OS X tabbed app, namely Safari. After I’ve opened two notes in tabs, if I choose another and choose “open in tabs,” nothing happens – yet I’d expect it to be opened in a third tab. I see that I can add tabs, but shouldn’t adding tabs be an operation linked to opening a note?

6

You’re right. It’s messy.

There is an undocumented (afaik) trick to get a document into a tab. On the tab bar click the plus ("+") sign to create a blank tab. Don’t click on that tab. Drag a document over the tab and hover there for a while. Let go of the document. The newly added tab will go blank, and then (in about 80% of the cases) the new document will appear in that tab.

Completely unintuitive, non-Mac like, etc. But it works, until DT makes the needed enhancement you proposed.

7

Thanks!