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00:00 hey guys this is Isaiah from your head
00:03 software today we're talking about
00:04 stacks 4 and the 5 new features that we
00:07 put into it this is feature number 2 and
00:10 it's all about the library now normally
00:15 I just show the feature hyper condensed
00:18 as much as I can and these in these
00:20 videos but I'm gonna take a little
00:22 detour on this one and we're going to
00:24 talk about the library in general the
00:27 reason is I get a ton of questions about
00:29 the library and more often than not the
00:32 answer is hey that feature already
00:35 exists it's in the preferences so today
00:38 I'm going to talk a little bit about
00:40 some of the Preferences and options and
00:43 other tweaks that you can do to
00:46 customize the library and at the end of
00:50 the video we're going to come full
00:54 circle around into customization of
00:57 library groups which is where the new
00:58 features are in stacks 4 so the video
01:02 isn't too long but we do cover a bit
01:06 more than I do in some of the other
01:07 videos so let's check it out
01:12 all right so I have a whole document set
01:16 up here but we're hardly gonna look at
01:18 that we're really just gonna spend our
01:20 time on the library here so the first
01:25 thing I'm going to do is I'm going to
01:27 expand the library up a little bit and
01:29 then I'm gonna do something that most
01:32 users never know that you can do which
01:35 is expand the library groups now we can
01:39 see that the library groups have full
01:43 titles and you can see what they all are
01:45 and this will make the demo a little bit
01:48 easier also you can actually see one of
01:52 the coolest tiny micro details that's in
01:56 stacks if you close this guy up you can
02:00 notice that the plus button down here is
02:02 centered right now it's centered right
02:04 in between these two lines and if we
02:07 expand it then Center it will be the
02:10 wrong place for that plus button to be
02:12 so it scootch is over just a tiny bit I
02:16 love that kind of detail okay so we're
02:20 going to expand the library groups up
02:23 just a little bit and then I'm gonna
02:26 open the Preferences and we're gonna see
02:28 what we can configure so in stacks four
02:33 we've reorganized the Preferences a
02:36 little bit so there's not too many in
02:38 any one section and now there's a whole
02:41 library section so you can see there are
02:46 tons of options in the library section
02:48 and most of them are for turning on and
02:52 off certain portions of the user
02:54 interface that you might not be
02:55 interested in now usually someone would
02:59 do this set it once and then forget it
03:01 so a lot of people don't know that these
03:05 preferences even exist
03:08 so the first set of checkboxes here
03:12 they're just for showing or hiding which
03:16 of the built-in library groups are
03:19 displayed so yeah you can turn off
03:23 pretty much everything in fact you can
03:26 turn off everything now don't do that
03:30 right now obviously if you don't have
03:32 any custom groups that leaves the bar
03:34 completely empty which is some yeah not
03:37 really useful actually but if you do
03:41 have a number of custom groups so you
03:43 work all the time in foundry or all the
03:45 time in foundation those are popular
03:48 framework libraries then you might set
03:53 up a custom group for each of those and
03:54 yeah you could hide all the built-in
03:57 groups most people will want to leave at
04:01 least the main group though the main
04:06 group shows all of the stacks but it
04:10 also shows all of your partials and it's
04:13 decks for all of your externals and
04:15 templates and it also shows images that
04:18 are come like pre bundled with libraries
04:20 or images that are on your page so yeah
04:25 that's a lot of stuff you can turn off
04:28 some of those things if you if you want
04:30 to so if we look at the bottom of our
04:33 stacks library here so you can see we
04:36 have foundry installed can see I have a
04:39 few externals and a partial here I can
04:45 disable those by deselecting these
04:49 the library redraws and we can see all
04:53 those items are gone now or we can turn
04:57 on maybe just one now we have the
05:01 parcels back
05:08 all right so that's some of the options
05:11 for customizing the library groups you
05:14 can also customize how the window
05:16 appears I'm not going to go into that
05:17 today and just to get things back to
05:21 sort of a somewhat normal state I'm
05:25 going to turn on a few more other groups
05:27 we'll leave a few turned off right so um
05:34 what are some other ways to customize
05:37 things well some things that you might
05:40 not set and forget some things that you
05:42 might change more often are down here in
05:47 the library gear menu so if you click
05:50 the gear menu you can change things like
05:52 the icon size so if you have enough
05:57 screen real estate and you show things
05:59 small sometimes you can get all of your
06:02 stacks in on the same window which is
06:06 pretty great
06:10 mediums good choice a lot of people
06:13 leave it at that and then you can also
06:16 choose to organize your stacks
06:18 differently if you choose by title that
06:22 just puts everything by elf
06:25 alphabetically and I find that rarely to
06:32 be useful it's useful in a couple
06:34 situations but most people find that a
06:37 little bit disorganized a lot of people
06:40 do however like to organize things by
06:42 author this puts all of your elixir
06:45 stacks in one place and all of your Joe
06:49 workman stacks in one place
06:52 but the defaults are pretty good too
06:55 that lets things be organized usually in
06:59 the way that their author intended them
07:01 to be so that puts all of your foundry
07:05 stacks together and all of your
07:06 foundation stacks together and any of
07:08 the other major stack bundles they all
07:12 go in one spot and usually that tends to
07:16 be pretty a pretty good organization but
07:21 if you want more organization than that
07:23 you can create custom groups now I'll
07:28 create a custom group right now I'm
07:31 going to put all of the foundry stacks
07:33 in a custom group and will include all
07:37 of these alloy stacks here because they
07:40 go well with those foundry stacks and I
07:45 will right-click and choose add to group
07:48 create new group so this will take all
07:52 the selected items and put them in a new
07:54 group and it puts the new group over
07:58 here gives it the untitled name and in
08:02 stacks 4 we get a nice little pop-up
08:05 help configure our group so this is
08:08 where the new features are so yeah I'm
08:13 gonna call it foundry and now we can
08:18 also configure the icon that we use you
08:21 can pop up the list here and scroll
08:22 through and find something you like
08:25 there's a lot of things in there you can
08:29 also type and it'll autocomplete
08:31 so I like birthday cake
08:35 it's good for demos um the standard Mac
08:40 OS system colors are here so we can
08:42 choose a color I'm gonna leave it blue
08:45 blue is good okay so now we have our
08:49 foundry stacks all in our nice group
08:53 together so when we want to look at
08:55 everything we can still look at that but
08:59 if we just want to look at our foundry
09:00 stacks those are here too I'll put
09:06 things back to their sort of default
09:08 look here maybe even set it back to big
09:13 size
09:16 right so that's a look at how to
09:19 customize your library in stacks 4 and
09:23 the new features of custom groups with
09:27 new icons and new colors and a new
09:30 pop-up to help you configure things all
09:32 together right
09:35 so that was feature number 2 feature
09:38 number 3 is text editing so make sure
09:40 and check that out there's lots of new
09:42 features there in text editing there's a
09:45 whole new user interface and also make
09:49 sure and check out feature number 5
09:51 that's all about externals and that's
09:55 the big new feature of stacks 4 so
09:57 definitely catch that one thanks for
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