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00:01 hey this is Isaiah from your head
00:03 software
00:04 today we're going to talk about the
00:05 stacks plugin and some of the cool
00:07 features we're adding to version 5.
00:10 this year we're focused on workflow and
00:12 that means making things even easier for
00:15 novices and more powerful for experts
00:20 going to be a little bit different
00:22 instead of covering a specific feature
00:25 we're going to cover a comprehensive set
00:28 of new keyboard bindings
00:31 that together make up a workflow that
00:34 you can use to keep your hands on the
00:36 keyboard and away from the mouse as much
00:38 as possible
00:40 now
00:41 this is generally aimed at experts who
00:44 are trying to get that last 10 or 1
50:46 percent of productivity
00:49 so that they can build pro sites faster
00:52 but if you're a novice you might still
00:55 pick up some information from this video
00:58 but I would recommend trying the stacks
01:02 menu video first
01:04 it covers a lot of the same topics and
01:07 I'm driving with the mouse and going
01:09 into less technical detail so it might
01:13 be a little bit easier to follow
01:16 but if you're an expert and you want to
01:19 get that last 10 percent
01:20 or you're a novice who's just up for a
01:23 challenge
01:25 grab your clickiest mechanical keyboard
01:27 and let's dive in and see what we can
01:30 learn
01:33 so I'm going to jump over to rapidweaver
01:35 and
01:37 open up my big View
01:39 I'm going to pull down the stacks menu
01:42 so we can have a look at all the
01:45 keyboard shortcuts here
01:49 I'm not going to go over the details of
01:50 the stacks menu but
01:53 the keyboard shortcuts that are in the
01:55 menu are a great reference
01:58 and it definitely makes learning all of
02:02 these different keyboard commands really
02:04 easy
02:08 so
02:10 the first thing that you might notice
02:12 about all of these keyboard commands
02:15 key bindings
02:17 you'll have to excuse me
02:19 key bindings command keys shortcuts
02:24 they all mean about the same thing but
02:26 they come from different platforms or
02:28 different areas of computing and I kind
02:31 of use them interchangeably so
02:34 whichever one you feel most comfortable
02:36 with hopefully I'll mention that one a
02:38 few times in this video
02:42 so all of these keyboard shortcuts use
02:46 option as the modifier key
02:50 so
02:51 option comma
02:54 opens the stacks preferences whereas
02:57 normally command comma opens up the app
03:01 preferences
03:03 and that's kind of a standard Mac OS
03:05 thing
03:07 rapidweaver being a very well behaved
03:09 Mac app
03:11 uses command comma to open up its
03:13 preferences
03:15 and so trying to keep away from
03:17 rapid reverse preferences a rapid
03:20 reverse command keys
03:21 I use option but a lot of the standard
03:27 um other key so
03:29 option comma opens up our preferences
03:35 there is a second reason
03:37 I'm also working on Stax Pro and app
03:40 based on Stacks that should be out by
03:43 the end of the year
03:45 now Stax Pro of course is a full app and
03:50 so it uses command comma
03:53 instead of option comma and in fact if
03:56 you walk down this list there's a
03:57 one-to-one correspondence
04:00 of the command keys in Stax Pro
04:03 to the option keys in the stacks plugin
04:09 and that way you can switch back and
04:12 forth between Stax Pro and the stacks
04:15 plugin even in the same day and
04:19 I can tell you my muscle memory just
04:22 kicks in
04:23 and so I can switch back and forth
04:25 without thinking too hard
04:28 about which keys are where
04:30 I just naturally
04:32 go for the option key when I'm using the
04:35 plugin and naturally go for the command
04:37 key when I'm using the app
04:40 but all of the other key bindings are
04:42 about the same
04:45 right so let's see if we can cover a few
04:48 basic topics here where
04:50 going to start with
04:53 um
04:53 selecting stacks
04:56 then we're going to move on to moving
04:59 stacks
05:01 then we're going to cover editing Stacks
05:03 in a bunch of different ways
05:07 and lastly we're going to take a quick
05:09 tour at the other places
05:12 in the stacks plugin
05:14 that have brand new key bindings
05:19 all right so let's start with selection
05:24 we mentioned this in the
05:28 the stacks menu video
05:33 that you can do select all stacks
05:36 and
05:37 it selects the top level stacks and this
05:40 is great if you just want to delete
05:41 everything and start from scratch
05:45 that's
05:47 command shift a
05:51 command a is similar it selects all
05:54 stack all Stacks within a container
05:58 and you can see it in the menu here
06:00 select all within stack
06:04 so that's optioning
06:07 and there we've selected everything
06:09 inside that container
06:12 it's a really quick way when you have a
06:14 whole bunch of stacks in the container
06:16 and you just want to clean them out
06:25 now if you have something selected and
06:29 you want to move that selection around
06:30 say
06:32 we have this item selected and we want
06:35 to move the selection down to this image
06:37 stack
06:39 we can do that pretty easily just by
06:41 using the arrow keys
06:43 there's no modifier key at all it's just
06:46 Arrow up and arrow down to move the
06:48 selection
06:50 now that's been with us since Stacks 1.
06:53 but we've added quite a bit since then
06:55 too
06:56 you can also move up and down the
06:59 hierarchy not just vertically
07:02 so to move up the hierarchy to select
07:05 the container or the parent
07:07 use command up Arrow
07:10 and to move down a level of hierarchy
07:14 use command down arrow
07:16 and that will select the first child
07:19 inside of that container
07:24 and this is great when you want to just
07:27 move around really quick to a different
07:29 thing
07:30 so here we have the the flower selected
07:33 and we want to get up to the mushroom
07:35 it's just a few clicks
07:38 and did you notice we scrolled to that
07:41 selection
07:42 I didn't have to use the mouse
07:47 to see what was selected
07:49 the new default behavior of stacks is to
07:52 scroll to the place that's selected
07:59 right we've covered selection let's move
08:02 on to move
08:04 so the move commands are all brand new
08:07 this year
08:08 but I'm telling you it's maybe my
08:11 favorite feature
08:15 they're right here in the stacks menu
08:17 and you can see it's option Arrow or
08:20 option shift Arrow to move to top and
08:24 option shift Arrow to move to the bottom
08:27 so let's give those a shot
08:30 I want to move this
08:32 flower around
08:34 and by option down arrow
08:38 it moves down one stack and option up
08:40 Arrow moves up one stack
08:43 man that is just so easy
08:46 about 10 minutes after finishing
08:49 implementing this
08:51 it became second nature for me to use
08:54 this as the the only way
08:56 that I move things around in the layout
08:59 I'm just kicking myself for not having
09:01 implemented this 10 years ago because it
09:05 really was that easy and
09:07 boy it's great
09:10 it also works with multiple Stacks so if
09:13 I select two things
09:16 and then use the movement commands it's
09:19 going to
09:20 first
09:22 move those things together
09:25 collect them
09:27 and then from that point
09:30 it will perform the action so in this
09:33 case move
09:35 so
09:36 it will gather things
09:39 at the point of the topmost thing
09:41 selected
09:42 so in this case that's the mushroom
09:46 and then it's going to
09:49 do the move after that so let's give it
09:52 a shot I have the mushroom and the
09:54 flower selected
09:56 it should move the flower up to the
09:59 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"}]