0:00 hey guys this is Isaiah from your head
0:03 software today we're talking about
0:04 stacks 4 and the 5 new features that we
0:07 put into it this is feature number 2 and
0:10 it's all about the library now normally
0:15 I just show the feature hyper condensed
0:18 as much as I can and these in these
0:20 videos but I'm gonna take a little
0:22 detour on this one and we're going to
0:24 talk about the library in general the
0:27 reason is I get a ton of questions about
0:29 the library and more often than not the
0:32 answer is hey that feature already
0:35 exists it's in the preferences so today
0:38 I'm going to talk a little bit about
0:40 some of the Preferences and options and
0:43 other tweaks that you can do to
0:46 customize the library and at the end of
0:50 the video we're going to come full
0:54 circle around into customization of
0:57 library groups which is where the new
0:58 features are in stacks 4 so the video
1:02 isn't too long but we do cover a bit
1:06 more than I do in some of the other
1:07 videos so let's check it out
1:12 all right so I have a whole document set
1:16 up here but we're hardly gonna look at
1:18 that we're really just gonna spend our
1:20 time on the library here so the first
1:25 thing I'm going to do is I'm going to
1:27 expand the library up a little bit and
1:29 then I'm gonna do something that most
1:32 users never know that you can do which
1:35 is expand the library groups now we can
1:39 see that the library groups have full
1:43 titles and you can see what they all are
1:45 and this will make the demo a little bit
1:48 easier also you can actually see one of
1:52 the coolest tiny micro details that's in
1:56 stacks if you close this guy up you can
2:00 notice that the plus button down here is
2:02 centered right now it's centered right
2:04 in between these two lines and if we
2:07 expand it then Center it will be the
2:10 wrong place for that plus button to be
2:12 so it scootch is over just a tiny bit I
2:16 love that kind of detail okay so we're
2:20 going to expand the library groups up
2:23 just a little bit and then I'm gonna
2:26 open the Preferences and we're gonna see
2:28 what we can configure so in stacks four
2:33 we've reorganized the Preferences a
2:36 little bit so there's not too many in
2:38 any one section and now there's a whole
2:41 library section so you can see there are
2:46 tons of options in the library section
2:48 and most of them are for turning on and
2:52 off certain portions of the user
2:54 interface that you might not be
2:55 interested in now usually someone would
2:59 do this set it once and then forget it
3:01 so a lot of people don't know that these
3:05 preferences even exist
3:08 so the first set of checkboxes here
3:12 they're just for showing or hiding which
3:16 of the built-in library groups are
3:19 displayed so yeah you can turn off
3:23 pretty much everything in fact you can
3:26 turn off everything now don't do that
3:30 right now obviously if you don't have
3:32 any custom groups that leaves the bar
3:34 completely empty which is some yeah not
3:37 really useful actually but if you do
3:41 have a number of custom groups so you
3:43 work all the time in foundry or all the
3:45 time in foundation those are popular
3:48 framework libraries then you might set
3:53 up a custom group for each of those and
3:54 yeah you could hide all the built-in
3:57 groups most people will want to leave at
4:01 least the main group though the main
4:06 group shows all of the stacks but it
4:10 also shows all of your partials and it's
4:13 decks for all of your externals and
4:15 templates and it also shows images that
4:18 are come like pre bundled with libraries
4:20 or images that are on your page so yeah
4:25 that's a lot of stuff you can turn off
4:28 some of those things if you if you want
4:30 to so if we look at the bottom of our
4:33 stacks library here so you can see we
4:36 have foundry installed can see I have a
4:39 few externals and a partial here I can
4:45 disable those by deselecting these
4:49 the library redraws and we can see all
4:53 those items are gone now or we can turn
4:57 on maybe just one now we have the
5:01 parcels back
5:08 all right so that's some of the options
5:11 for customizing the library groups you
5:14 can also customize how the window
5:16 appears I'm not going to go into that
5:17 today and just to get things back to
5:21 sort of a somewhat normal state I'm
5:25 going to turn on a few more other groups
5:27 we'll leave a few turned off right so um
5:34 what are some other ways to customize
5:37 things well some things that you might
5:40 not set and forget some things that you
5:42 might change more often are down here in
5:47 the library gear menu so if you click
5:50 the gear menu you can change things like
5:52 the icon size so if you have enough
5:57 screen real estate and you show things
5:59 small sometimes you can get all of your
6:02 stacks in on the same window which is
6:06 pretty great
6:10 mediums good choice a lot of people
6:13 leave it at that and then you can also
6:16 choose to organize your stacks
6:18 differently if you choose by title that
6:22 just puts everything by elf
6:25 alphabetically and I find that rarely to
6:32 be useful it's useful in a couple
6:34 situations but most people find that a
6:37 little bit disorganized a lot of people
6:40 do however like to organize things by
6:42 author this puts all of your elixir
6:45 stacks in one place and all of your Joe
6:49 workman stacks in one place
6:52 but the defaults are pretty good too
6:55 that lets things be organized usually in
6:59 the way that their author intended them
7:01 to be so that puts all of your foundry
7:05 stacks together and all of your
7:06 foundation stacks together and any of
7:08 the other major stack bundles they all
7:12 go in one spot and usually that tends to
7:16 be pretty a pretty good organization but
7:21 if you want more organization than that
7:23 you can create custom groups now I'll
7:28 create a custom group right now I'm
7:31 going to put all of the foundry stacks
7:33 in a custom group and will include all
7:37 of these alloy stacks here because they
7:40 go well with those foundry stacks and I
7:45 will right-click and choose add to group
7:48 create new group so this will take all
7:52 the selected items and put them in a new
7:54 group and it puts the new group over
7:58 here gives it the untitled name and in
8:02 stacks 4 we get a nice little pop-up
8:05 help configure our group so this is
8:08 where the new features are so yeah I'm
8:13 gonna call it foundry and now we can
8:18 also configure the icon that we use you
8:21 can pop up the list here and scroll
8:22 through and find something you like
8:25 there's a lot of things in there you can
8:29 also type and it'll autocomplete
8:31 so I like birthday cake
8:35 it's good for demos um the standard Mac
8:40 OS system colors are here so we can
8:42 choose a color I'm gonna leave it blue
8:45 blue is good okay so now we have our
8:49 foundry stacks all in our nice group
8:53 together so when we want to look at
8:55 everything we can still look at that but
8:59 if we just want to look at our foundry
9:00 stacks those are here too I'll put
9:06 things back to their sort of default
9:08 look here maybe even set it back to big
9:13 size
9:16 right so that's a look at how to
9:19 customize your library in stacks 4 and
9:23 the new features of custom groups with
9:27 new icons and new colors and a new
9:30 pop-up to help you configure things all
9:32 together right
9:35 so that was feature number 2 feature
9:38 number 3 is text editing so make sure
9:40 and check that out there's lots of new
9:42 features there in text editing there's a
9:45 whole new user interface and also make
9:49 sure and check out feature number 5
9:51 that's all about externals and that's
9:55 the big new feature of stacks 4 so
9:57 definitely catch that one thanks for
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