0:01 hey this is Isaiah from your head
0:03 software
0:04 today we're going to talk about the
0:05 stacks plugin and some of the cool
0:07 features we're adding to version 5.
0:10 this year we're focused on workflow and
0:12 that means making things even easier for
0:15 novices and more powerful for experts
0:20 going to be a little bit different
0:22 instead of covering a specific feature
0:25 we're going to cover a comprehensive set
0:28 of new keyboard bindings
0:31 that together make up a workflow that
0:34 you can use to keep your hands on the
0:36 keyboard and away from the mouse as much
0:38 as possible
0:40 now
0:41 this is generally aimed at experts who
0:44 are trying to get that last 10 or 15
0:46 percent of productivity
0:49 so that they can build pro sites faster
0:52 but if you're a novice you might still
0:55 pick up some information from this video
0:58 but I would recommend trying the stacks
1:02 menu video first
1:04 it covers a lot of the same topics and
1:07 I'm driving with the mouse and going
1:09 into less technical detail so it might
1:13 be a little bit easier to follow
1:16 but if you're an expert and you want to
1:19 get that last 10 percent
1:20 or you're a novice who's just up for a
1:23 challenge
1:25 grab your clickiest mechanical keyboard
1:27 and let's dive in and see what we can
1:30 learn
1:33 so I'm going to jump over to rapidweaver
1:35 and
1:37 open up my big View
1:39 I'm going to pull down the stacks menu
1:42 so we can have a look at all the
1:45 keyboard shortcuts here
1:49 I'm not going to go over the details of
1:50 the stacks menu but
1:53 the keyboard shortcuts that are in the
1:55 menu are a great reference
1:58 and it definitely makes learning all of
2:02 these different keyboard commands really
2:04 easy
2:08 so
2:10 the first thing that you might notice
2:12 about all of these keyboard commands
2:15 key bindings
2:17 you'll have to excuse me
2:19 key bindings command keys shortcuts
2:24 they all mean about the same thing but
2:26 they come from different platforms or
2:28 different areas of computing and I kind
2:31 of use them interchangeably so
2:34 whichever one you feel most comfortable
2:36 with hopefully I'll mention that one a
2:38 few times in this video
2:42 so all of these keyboard shortcuts use
2:46 option as the modifier key
2:50 so
2:51 option comma
2:54 opens the stacks preferences whereas
2:57 normally command comma opens up the app
3:01 preferences
3:03 and that's kind of a standard Mac OS
3:05 thing
3:07 rapidweaver being a very well behaved
3:09 Mac app
3:11 uses command comma to open up its
3:13 preferences
3:15 and so trying to keep away from
3:17 rapid reverse preferences a rapid
3:20 reverse command keys
3:21 I use option but a lot of the standard
3:27 um other key so
3:29 option comma opens up our preferences
3:35 there is a second reason
3:37 I'm also working on Stax Pro and app
3:40 based on Stacks that should be out by
3:43 the end of the year
3:45 now Stax Pro of course is a full app and
3:50 so it uses command comma
3:53 instead of option comma and in fact if
3:56 you walk down this list there's a
3:57 one-to-one correspondence
4:00 of the command keys in Stax Pro
4:03 to the option keys in the stacks plugin
4:09 and that way you can switch back and
4:12 forth between Stax Pro and the stacks
4:15 plugin even in the same day and
4:19 I can tell you my muscle memory just
4:22 kicks in
4:23 and so I can switch back and forth
4:25 without thinking too hard
4:28 about which keys are where
4:30 I just naturally
4:32 go for the option key when I'm using the
4:35 plugin and naturally go for the command
4:37 key when I'm using the app
4:40 but all of the other key bindings are
4:42 about the same
4:45 right so let's see if we can cover a few
4:48 basic topics here where
4:50 going to start with
4:53 um
4:53 selecting stacks
4:56 then we're going to move on to moving
4:59 stacks
5:01 then we're going to cover editing Stacks
5:03 in a bunch of different ways
5:07 and lastly we're going to take a quick
5:09 tour at the other places
5:12 in the stacks plugin
5:14 that have brand new key bindings
5:19 all right so let's start with selection
5:24 we mentioned this in the
5:28 the stacks menu video
5:33 that you can do select all stacks
5:36 and
5:37 it selects the top level stacks and this
5:40 is great if you just want to delete
5:41 everything and start from scratch
5:45 that's
5:47 command shift a
5:51 command a is similar it selects all
5:54 stack all Stacks within a container
5:58 and you can see it in the menu here
6:00 select all within stack
6:04 so that's optioning
6:07 and there we've selected everything
6:09 inside that container
6:12 it's a really quick way when you have a
6:14 whole bunch of stacks in the container
6:16 and you just want to clean them out
6:25 now if you have something selected and
6:29 you want to move that selection around
6:30 say
6:32 we have this item selected and we want
6:35 to move the selection down to this image
6:37 stack
6:39 we can do that pretty easily just by
6:41 using the arrow keys
6:43 there's no modifier key at all it's just
6:46 Arrow up and arrow down to move the
6:48 selection
6:50 now that's been with us since Stacks 1.0
6:53 but we've added quite a bit since then
6:55 too
6:56 you can also move up and down the
6:59 hierarchy not just vertically
7:02 so to move up the hierarchy to select
7:05 the container or the parent
7:07 use command up Arrow
7:10 and to move down a level of hierarchy
7:14 use command down arrow
7:16 and that will select the first child
7:19 inside of that container
7:24 and this is great when you want to just
7:27 move around really quick to a different
7:29 thing
7:30 so here we have the the flower selected
7:33 and we want to get up to the mushroom
7:35 it's just a few clicks
7:38 and did you notice we scrolled to that
7:41 selection
7:42 I didn't have to use the mouse
7:47 to see what was selected
7:49 the new default behavior of stacks is to
7:52 scroll to the place that's selected
7:59 right we've covered selection let's move
8:02 on to move
8:04 so the move commands are all brand new
8:07 this year
8:08 but I'm telling you it's maybe my
8:11 favorite feature
8:15 they're right here in the stacks menu
8:17 and you can see it's option Arrow or
8:20 option shift Arrow to move to top and
8:24 option shift Arrow to move to the bottom
8:27 so let's give those a shot
8:30 I want to move this
8:32 flower around
8:34 and by option down arrow
8:38 it moves down one stack and option up
8:40 Arrow moves up one stack
8:43 man that is just so easy
8:46 about 10 minutes after finishing
8:49 implementing this
8:51 it became second nature for me to use
8:54 this as the the only way
8:56 that I move things around in the layout
8:59 I'm just kicking myself for not having
9:01 implemented this 10 years ago because it
9:05 really was that easy and
9:07 boy it's great
9:10 it also works with multiple Stacks so if
9:13 I select two things
9:16 and then use the movement commands it's
9:19 going to
9:20 first
9:22 move those things together
9:25 collect them
9:27 and then from that point
9:30 it will perform the action so in this
9:33 case move
9:35 so
9:36 it will gather things
9:39 at the point of the topmost thing
9:41 selected
9:42 so in this case that's the mushroom
9:46 and then it's going to
9:49 do the move after that so let's give it
9:52 a shot I have the mushroom and the
9:54 flower selected
9:56 it should move the flower up to the
9:59 mushroom Gathering it
10:01 and then move it one step up
10:04 so that's what happened
10:07 and we can keep going
10:10 and it just moves both of those along up
10:13 one stack at a time
10:17 and it's really great if you're looking
10:20 to just put things off to the side for a
10:23 moment you can grab a few Stacks that
10:26 you want not to be in the layout right
10:29 now
10:30 so I'm gonna pick all these images
10:33 and then I'm going to do option shift
10:36 down arrow
10:38 and that will move all of these things
10:40 to the very bottom of my layout
10:43 freeing up space for for me to work but
10:46 without deleting things permanently
10:49 option shift down arrow
10:52 so all those things disappeared from
10:54 here but now they're at the very bottom
10:57 of the layout
10:59 I'm gonna undo
11:01 put them right back
11:04 all right
11:06 so we've covered selection and movement
11:10 now let's head over to editing
11:14 now
11:16 there are a few different ways to modify
11:19 a stack obviously we can open up the
11:22 info sidebar
11:23 and change all those things but I mean
11:27 more direct editing like how about hide
11:30 and lock a stack
11:31 so I'm going to select a few Stacks
11:35 because
11:36 anything that you can do with one stack
11:38 you can probably do with a number of
11:40 stacks
11:42 so I'll select a few stacks and then
11:44 I'll hide them now
11:48 these commands are here
11:50 it's option H for hide
11:55 and you would think it would be optional
11:58 for lock but it can't be
12:02 because optional already shows and hides
12:05 the library
12:06 and that's a really important function
12:10 option I hides and shows the info
12:13 sidebar
12:15 and those have existed for years
12:17 so instead of using the first letter
12:21 for the command I'm using the last
12:23 letter
12:24 so we did
12:26 option H to hide we'll do option K to
12:31 lock
12:33 there now you see they're all red
12:37 and keep in mind once they're locked I
12:40 can no longer use things like the
12:42 movement commands anymore so
12:45 I'll select one and I'll try option
12:49 up Arrow
12:51 nope it actually just moved the
12:54 selection
12:55 it doesn't know how to move one of these
12:58 locked stacks
13:02 all right so
13:04 we've covered
13:06 hide lock
13:09 but there's another pretty important
13:13 editing feature
13:15 it's creating partials
13:18 and new this year
13:21 you can create partials from multiple
13:24 items scattered throughout the layout
13:27 you don't have to bring them together
13:29 inside of a container like you used to
13:33 so I'm going to select
13:36 this image
13:39 the shoes and this HTML stack and I'm
13:43 going to create a partial from all three
13:45 of these things
13:47 and just like we saw with the movement
13:49 commands it's first going to gather them
13:52 together
13:54 and it'll do that right underneath the
13:56 topmost or leftmost stack
14:01 once they're gathered together it's
14:03 going to create a partial there
14:06 and it's going to push us into the
14:09 partial of course
14:10 so
14:14 these commands are right here create a
14:17 partial create an external and unpack
14:22 option P to create a partial
14:25 let's try it
14:27 option p
14:29 we created the partial and we pushed in
14:33 we can back out and now all of those
14:36 Stacks are right underneath
14:39 the top level the top stack that we had
14:42 selected which was that HTML stack
14:46 now of course since we can create a
14:49 partial with the keyboard now
14:51 we also need to be able to unpack it
14:53 with the keyboard
14:55 and that is
14:59 option and little arrow and what that
15:03 little arrow means is press return
15:06 so let's give it a try
15:09 so we'll do
15:10 option return
15:13 and it unpacked those stacks and put
15:15 them in that spot
15:21 so
15:22 um I can undo
15:25 we're back into the partial and then
15:27 undo again and it should put these
15:29 things all back in the place that they
15:30 came from
15:31 boom
15:32 so there's the HTML stack here's that
15:36 image and here's that image
15:40 right so now we've
15:42 successfully done uh
15:47 selection movement
15:50 editing
15:51 partials
15:55 last but not least I'd like to take a
15:57 quick walk through some of the other
16:00 items
16:01 in the stacks menu
16:04 that allow us to
16:07 change the interface
16:09 um
16:09 quickly without using the mouse so as I
16:14 demonstrated earlier we can hide in show
16:16 the library
16:17 and hide and show the info sidebar
16:24 we can also let's see
16:28 focus on the find
16:31 with uh option f
16:34 and that lets us do a quick search
16:39 without ever touching the mouse
16:44 escape to end now
16:49 there's a few more items in here
16:52 of course we talked about the
16:54 preferences
16:55 there's page stats there's a whole video
16:58 on page stats
17:00 and I encourage you to go watch it page
17:02 stats are kind of fun and it's a really
17:04 useful tool too
17:07 um
17:07 we also have a quick way to check for
17:10 updates
17:11 this not only opens the updates window
17:14 it
17:16 actually clicks the check for updates
17:19 button too so it's a
17:21 one One-Shot deal let's give it a shot
17:25 option U
17:27 oh I'm still focused on the find let's
17:30 try that again option U so
17:34 you'll notice there um
17:37 I was focused in on the find uh so some
17:41 of the option
17:43 commands just like command keys
17:47 won't really work
17:48 if you're editing text or
17:52 yeah some of the other things like modal
17:54 windows
17:56 you have to be cognizant of what you
17:59 have selected
18:00 to
18:01 what your command keys are going to
18:04 operate on
18:05 so I did um yeah option U it opened up
18:09 this window and immediately checked for
18:12 updates
18:13 looks like I have a foundation update
18:16 waiting for me
18:19 I'll do command W to close the window
18:23 there are a couple other windows that um
18:28 are easy to open and close now we can
18:31 get into preferences of course
18:34 um that's option comma but we can close
18:37 preferences
18:38 by doing
18:40 command W or even Escape
18:48 one of the kind of fun things this is an
18:52 old bit of Mac trivia is that
18:56 when you have a preferences window open
19:00 Escape is one way to close it but very
19:04 old Mac keyboards didn't have an Escape
19:07 key
19:08 so they had to come up with the solution
19:11 for
19:14 everything that required an Escape key
19:17 and the solution in Old Mac OS even
19:20 before Mac OS 10. was to use command
19:24 period
19:25 so I can also close the stacks
19:28 preferences by doing command period
19:32 it's a weird bit of Old Mac trivia
19:36 I didn't even have to implement that
19:37 myself it's just built into Mac OS
19:43 right so that's the preferences window
19:47 we can also uh use the keyboard to
19:52 dismiss a text editing window now so if
19:56 you're editing some text and you want to
19:58 push either the
20:01 X or the check
20:04 pushing the X's Escape of course
20:08 and if you want to push
20:11 check
20:13 let's make an edit
20:15 you can do the enter key or command
20:19 return if you don't have a neutral key
20:21 on your keyboard
20:25 and I think that's a pretty
20:28 comprehensive list of
20:31 almost every single one of the command
20:34 keys that we've added
20:38 it covers
20:40 stack selection stack movement stack
20:43 editing
20:45 Plus moving around the user interface
20:48 like hiding and showing the library
20:53 and some
20:55 really quick and easy edits like hide
20:59 lock partials unpacking
21:05 and we now support some of the
21:08 default Mac OS command keys
21:12 like escape to close the preferences and
21:17 um
21:17 escape and return
21:20 to close your text editing window
21:24 so with all of those things you can cut
21:27 down on the number of times you have to
21:29 go to your mouse
21:30 significantly
21:35 really the mouse is now used for a
21:38 couple places where we use drag and drop
21:40 all the time
21:42 like dropping in a new stack
21:51 um multiple selection I think is Pretty
21:54 Tough doing doing it just from the
21:56 keyboard so there are a few cases like
21:59 that where it's worth it to go over to
22:03 the mouse to make those
22:05 multiple selections it's a lot more
22:07 efficient than trying to coax that out
22:10 of a keyboard
22:13 but I encourage you to give all of these
22:16 things a try and
22:19 tell me what you think about the command
22:21 keys
22:22 is anything out of place are there
22:24 things missing that you would like
22:29 this year we have a new Discord group
22:33 the Discord group
22:36 is a great place to give us feedback
22:40 Discord is a super popular chat service
22:44 and
22:46 we created our Discord group just uh
22:49 about two weeks ago and we already have
22:52 over 250 users
22:56 so go look for a link to the Discord
22:59 server at the bottom of every page of
23:02 our website
23:04 and give it a click sign on it's free
23:07 and there's great clients for mac and
23:11 iPhone or you can just use it via the
23:13 web
23:17 there's a main chat area where you can
23:19 go ask a question
23:21 there's always some experts signed on
23:24 or
23:26 Discord also has
23:28 Forum topics so you can go in and post a
23:32 long-term question there that maybe has
23:34 more discussion
23:37 so if you like forums it's great if you
23:40 like chat it's also great
23:43 give it a try send us some feedback
23:46 and let me know what you think about
23:48 this new keyboard workflow
23:51 and
23:52 thanks for listening"}]