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Cards

A card is a tile on a page that links to another page in your project, or to a website. Click a page card and Publisher turns to that page; click a website card and it opens in your browser. Where: Publisher Studio › page editor · Keys: [/] then Card, or right-click a link

What it is

A card does what a link does, as a tile rather than a line of text. A page card shows its page's title and cover picture, and keeps up with them when they change. Each card is a block of its own, so you arrange cards the way you arrange anything on a page: drag one by its handle to the side of another and they sit side by side in columns.

How to make one

From the slash menu. On an empty line, type [/] and choose Card. Type a page name and pick it from the list, or paste a web address and press [Enter]. The cursor waits on the line below, ready for the next card.

From a link. Make a link as usual, to a page with two square brackets or [@], or to a website by pasting its address (see Writing Pages), on a line of its own. Right-click it and pick a card under Turn into a card.

Renaming a card. Right-click it and choose Rename card. A page card left blank goes back to showing its page's own title. A website's title is often a long one, so a new website card opens straight into renaming.

Changing a card. Right-click a card for its other options, Remove card among them.

Tips

  • Cards are links, so they never add a connector, and rearranging them leaves the graph as it is.
  • In the page's file, a card is an ordinary link on a line of its own, its new name included, so Obsidian, your AI and any other editor see a link they can follow. Filamental keeps the note of which lines are cards in the project folder.
  • Shared links and HTML downloads keep the cards. A reader's click on a page card turns the page there too, and a website card opens in a new tab (see Sharing a Document).

How this helps you

Use cards to build a hub page: a page that's mostly tiles, one for each part of the document and one for each site that matters, so a reader starts by choosing where to go. They suit the front page of a proposal, a client's own corner of a project, or a contents page that's nicer to click than to read.

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