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00:01 hey this is Isaiah from your head
00:03 software
00:04 today we're talking about the stacks
00:06 plugin and some of the cool things that
00:08 we've added to version 5.
00:11 this year we're really focused on
00:13 workflow
00:14 and what that means is making things
00:16 easier for novices and more powerful for
00:19 experts
00:21 so let's dive in and see how we can make
00:25 the library even easier and more
00:27 powerful
00:30 so I'm going to open up rapidweeper and
00:32 switch to my big View
00:35 now if you've used Stacks even just a
00:37 little bit you know how important the
00:38 stacks library is
00:41 the library is where we go to begin
00:43 every layout that we build and it's
00:47 where we keep all of our third party
00:48 stacks
00:51 third-party Stacks really are the most
00:53 important part
00:54 of the stacks platform today
00:57 all of this is why we've added so many
01:00 new features to the Stax Library this
01:02 year
01:03 it's so many that I won't be able to go
01:05 through them all
01:06 day in this video
01:09 but make sure to explore a little bit
01:12 and you'll find a few more
01:14 there's some good preferences to make
01:17 search even easier to use and there's
01:20 new icon sizes this year like small
01:23 compact and medium compact
01:25 and those let you see two or even three
01:27 times as many icons on the screen at the
01:30 same time which is perfect for experts
01:32 who kind of know what they're looking
01:34 for
01:34 so um this year let's
01:38 look at how we can organize our Stacks
01:40 Library
01:41 kind of to find what we're looking for
01:45 you may have noticed when I was
01:47 scrolling there that I have quite a few
01:48 Stacks installed
01:50 it's really only three Frameworks I have
01:53 Foundation
01:54 Foundation six and Foundry
01:58 those are the three most popular
02:01 Frameworks today for stacks
02:05 but even with just those three
02:07 Frameworks it's hundreds of stacks and
02:10 that can be pretty daunting to go find
02:13 what you're looking for
02:15 so
02:17 you could use search
02:19 if you knew exactly the name of the
02:21 thing that you were looking for even if
02:24 you have 2 000 Stacks installed
02:27 search is still pretty pretty much
02:29 instantaneous
02:32 um
02:33 but one of the other ways
02:36 to find what you're looking for is
02:39 to use custom groups
02:42 you can see I have two custom groups
02:44 here one for Elixir graphic Elixir
02:47 Graphics Foundry and the other four Joe
02:50 Workman Foundation stacks
02:55 Now setting up a custom group like this
02:57 takes a little bit of work there's
02:59 dozens of stacks to add
03:02 but it's even more work to keep them up
03:04 to date
03:05 because
03:06 Joe and Adam from Elixir are updating
03:10 their Stacks all the time
03:12 and adding new things to their
03:14 Frameworks
03:15 and every time they do we need to make
03:18 sure and get those changes into our
03:20 custom groups
03:22 so
03:24 we've added smart groups this year to
03:26 take some of the busy work out of
03:28 creating groups
03:29 and
03:30 to keep things dynamically up to date
03:33 all the time
03:36 a smart group Works a little bit like
03:38 smart folders in the finder or a smart
03:41 album in photo software
03:44 um
03:46 they use a saved search
03:49 to keep things dynamically updating
03:52 so let's build a custom group
03:56 and then I'll show you how much easier
03:58 it is to build the same same sort of
04:01 group with smart groups
04:04 so to create a custom group we start by
04:06 clicking the plus button
04:08 and we give our group a name
04:10 this group is going to be for buttons so
04:12 I'll call it buttons
04:14 and
04:16 we need an icon so something buttony
04:18 like a square
04:21 I'll give it a color
04:23 and now it's just to the business of
04:25 adding the button Stacks so we just
04:28 dragged them in
04:30 here's a button stack
04:31 and
04:33 here's another one
04:35 here's a split button stack
04:38 I could do this all day there's quite a
04:40 few Stacks in here and I bet a lot of
04:42 them are buttons
04:43 but there's a faster way we can use
04:46 search
04:48 if I search for a button then quite a
04:50 few things come up
04:52 and I just need to select all these
04:55 things with a command a
04:58 and use a control click say add to group
05:01 buttons
05:04 great
05:05 now we have a custom group and it has
05:07 all of our buttons in it
05:10 now of course if Joe or elixir
05:14 added new Stacks to their Frameworks
05:18 we would have to make sure and catch
05:19 those updates and get those into our
05:22 custom group
05:24 but there's a better way with smart
05:26 groups
05:27 now in version five
05:31 I'm going to click the plus button
05:34 and just like we did before I'm going to
05:36 give it a name this time let's do
05:38 columns
05:42 and let's see the University
05:50 um icon has some columns in it so
05:52 perfect
05:54 um
05:56 let's click the smart search
05:59 button here and this time we'll do our
06:02 search right inside the group
06:05 and it'll save that search permanently
06:08 so
06:10 column if I search for columns with the
06:13 S then I lose out on one column stack so
06:17 I'll just keep it to column
06:19 and you notice
06:20 the the stacks that appear in my group
06:23 dynamically update as I'm typing so I
06:25 know exactly what I'm going to get
06:30 that's pretty good
06:31 we can also since we're going to use
06:33 this custom group all the time
06:36 drag it right to where we want it to go
06:38 I'm going to put it right here next to
06:40 the top I could even make this the
06:43 default group
06:44 but I kind of like keeping the the old
06:47 everything Stacks group as the default
06:52 so we have our custom group here at the
06:54 top
06:56 and
06:57 we have exactly the stacks we want
07:00 except I noticed at the bottom here
07:03 I caught a couple stragglers too some
07:06 template Stacks from Foundation six
07:08 now these are great but I kind of wanted
07:11 to keep things just to simple stacks
07:13 so
07:15 let me show you how we can
07:17 refine our search
07:19 and get just what we want
07:22 so I'll go back to my options by double
07:25 clicking
07:28 this time I'm going to expand the smart
07:31 search
07:33 and that gives me lots more options so I
07:35 can refine things
07:38 and in the included items I can exclude
07:43 templates externals and partials because
07:45 I don't want those things in in my
07:47 custom group
07:49 also get rid of images and I don't think
07:52 there's going to be any authors named
07:54 column
07:55 so I'm not even going to search through
07:57 authors
07:59 but we could change
08:02 to look just for titles or just for tags
08:06 if that helped us refine our search
08:09 but for columns this seems to work just
08:12 right
08:14 I'll uh
08:17 drag this to about two columns and that
08:19 way it fits perfectly on the screen
08:21 which I think is just right for my smart
08:24 groups
08:28 great so now we have columns it's where
08:30 we want it to be
08:32 and it will automatically pick up any
08:35 new column Stacks whenever they get
08:38 installed
08:41 and that's
08:42 a quick introduction to Smart groups
08:48 I'd really like to hear back
08:50 any feedback that you have about these
08:53 new features that we've added
08:55 to version five
08:58 this year we've added a Discord group so
09:00 that we can chat with folks
09:03 if you're not familiar with Discord it's
09:05 a new chat system and it's really
09:08 popular
09:09 we've only been had the system up for a
09:12 couple weeks and we already have 25
09:14 people
09:16 um
09:17 so if you have some feedback uh go to
09:20 our website there's a link at the bottom
09:22 to the Discord group click on the link
09:24 sign in to Discord
09:27 and let us know what you think in the
09:29 chat or post to the internal Forum
09:33 Discord has Forum topics as well that
09:36 let you post long-term questions
09:40 um
09:41 either way let us know what you think
09:43 and check out the other videos too
09:46 thanks for watching"}]