What it is
The Note Viewer is where a note is read: your handwritten page, full screen, with the digital layer one tap away. It behaves like a photo viewer because that's what your hands already know — pinch, swipe, double-tap.
Why it matters
The handwritten page is the first-class object in SandDune, not an attachment. The viewer is designed so the page fills the screen and the interface gets out of the way — controls fade after a few seconds, leaving ink.
How to use it
Tap any note on the dashboard (or in a notebook, search result, or calendar day) to open it.
- Navigate: swipe left/right between notes with photo-app physics. The set you swipe through is the set you came from — search results, a notebook, starred notes, or a calendar month (in calendar order).
- Zoom: pinch or scroll-wheel; double-tap for 2×. Zoomed in, dragging past the page edge flows into a swipe to the next note.
- Chrome: tap the image to show/hide the top bar and toolbar.
- Transcription panel: first toolbar button — slides up the full text with a word count.
- Live Highlights: second button — see Live Highlights.
- Edit / Star / Download / Delete: the remaining toolbar actions. Download saves the original photo to your device.
Keyboard on desktop: ←/→ navigate, E edit, S star, H highlights, Escape backs out one layer at a time.
Tips
- The position counter ("12 of 47") doubles as a match pill when you arrive from a search — tap it to flash the matching words on the page.
- Deleting mid-swipe takes you to the neighboring note, so clearing out a bad photo doesn't eject you from your reading flow.
Current limitations
- The viewer shows one page at a time — there's no side-by-side spread view.
- Sharing from the viewer means downloading the image and sharing it with your device's tools; there's no direct share button on individual notes.