Library
The Library is your workspace's shelf for source material - a worksheet, a chapter, a paper, a syllabus. You bring the documents in, and Mesh reads and searches every one of them right beside your work.
What goes on the shelf
Anything you want Mesh to read lives here - PDFs, plain text, and Markdown, up to 30 MB each. It's one shelf for the whole workspace, so a chapter you drop in for lines of symmetry is still there when you reach tessellations.
Add a file
Two ways in, both landing on the same shelf.
- Upload - Upload files brings PDFs, text, or Markdown in from your device.
- Paste text - Paste text opens a box: drop in text, name it, pick plain text or Markdown, and Save to Library.
A new file shows Preparing for a moment while Mesh gets it ready to search. When that marker clears, it's ready.
Read it right here
Pick a file from the left picker and it opens in the panel - a PDF in its page reader, text and Markdown on a clean sheet. With nothing selected you'll see Select a file to preview.
Keep the shelf tidy
Once the shelf grows, the controls above the list narrow it down.
- Search - Search Library filters the list as you type.
- Sort - order by Recent, Name, Size, or Mesh status.
- Filter - narrow to PDF, MD, or TXT.
Each row's File actions menu holds Info, Rename file, Pin here, and Delete file.
Is Mesh ready to read it?
Mesh prepares each file in the background before it can search it. A small marker on the row tells you where things stand - and a clean row means Mesh can already use it.
- Preparing - a spinning marker while Mesh gets the file ready.
- Retrying - Mesh hit a snag and is trying again on its own.
- Failed - a red marker: Mesh couldn't prepare this one.
- Ready - no marker at all: Mesh can search and read it now.
Pin a source beside your work
Pin here drops a file straight onto the current board page, so the source stays in view while you sketch and take notes around it. Any file kind can be pinned, and it lands locked in place.
- For a PDF, choose which pages to pin first - one range or several, up to 25 pages each.
- Different board pages can hold different pins, and you can pin the same pages more than once.
- A row's pin marker opens a popover listing every place that file is pinned, so you can unpin a copy from there.
Mesh reads your Library
This is the whole point of the shelf. When Mesh answers, it searches across every file and pulls the real words back - a definition, a worked example, the exact wording of your syllabus. Point it at one document with an reference when you want it focused there instead of the whole shelf.
Tip Drop in the chapter you're studying, pin the pages you care about beside your board, and ask Mesh about them by name - it reads the same source you're looking at.