Yarnboard guides
Straight answers to the questions Yarnboard exists to solve.
- How do you search for text inside a screenshot? — Screenshots are images, so ordinary file search cannot read them. Running OCR over each image turns the words inside it into searchable text. Here is how that works in Yarnboard.
- How do you find connections between notes you have already written? — The connections that matter are usually between notes written months apart, which is exactly when you have forgotten both. Shared rare tags are a practical way to surface them without reading everything again.
- How do you organize research notes for a novel? — Novel research is fragments collected over months: clippings, images, half-remembered facts, character details. The practical approach is to keep capture friction near zero and let tags carry the structure.
- How do you turn scattered notes into a first draft? — The hard part of a first draft is usually sequencing, not writing. Ordering the material you already have as cards, then combining it, gets you to a real draft faster than starting from a blank page.