Creating and editing notes

Creating a new note from Unity

To create a new Note, focus on the spot in the scene where you want to create it, and click the Plus button. The newly created card will be immediately sent to the Codecks server, and you can keep editing its properties in the Inspector.

Click the Plus button to create a new note

The new Scene Note will go in the default Deck specified during setup, and will be associated with the scene that is the currently Active scene. You can always change these later.

Editing a note

You can edit the data of a Scene Note by just clicking on its icon, and editing the data in the Inspector.

However, when you are done, you need to press the Save button at the bottom to upload the changes to the Codecks server.

A Scene Note being edited, displaying the Save button at the bottom

Any unsaved change will be lost next time Codecks Scene Notes loads data, so make sure you save as soon as you're done editing.

Deleting a note

Like in Codecks, we don’t allow full deletion of a Scene Note. To remove a Note, you need to archive it.

Click on the Archive button in the note’s Inspector, and it will immediately be archived on the Codecks website as well (no need to save).

Click on the Archive button to archive the note

You can bring it back, by unarchiving it on the Codecks site (this requires reloading data in Unity).

If you just delete the GameObject that displays a note (by hitting Ctrl + Delete, for instance), the corresponding note is not deleted on the Codecks server. You need to archive it.

Filtering notes by category

You can hide/show Scene Notes by category, which corresponds to their Codecks deck. To do so, Click on the Filter button, and select the categories you want to see and hide:

Use the filter dropdown to select the categories to show or hide

When the filter is inactive, the button's icon is light grey. When the filter is active, the icon displays an orange liquid being filtered (like in the image above).

Showing/hiding categories doesn’t destroy the Notes or reload data, so you can have unsaved data, it will not be lost.

Loading notes for a specific Unity scene

Once a scene is associated with a card, that card will be automatically loaded in Unity when the scene is open. Opening and closing scenes in Unity will automatically show/hide the associated Scene Notes.

Opening and closing scenes doesn’t destroy the Notes or reload data, so you can have unsaved data, it will not be lost.