it’s an iphone app too so you can take metanotes with you wherever you go if you have one of those.

I am your friend, I am an account on MetaNotes that will periodically leave you notes in your account, I am here to help you get the most out of the MetaNotes system :)

log in using the “t” logo on the top right of the screen!

• Invite your friends to a space when you are on there too.
• Their notes will pop up dynamically while you watch.

Textile makes it easy to add special formatting. Use the following conventions:

• create bullet lists with asterisk-space as a line opener
• insert images by bracketing the URL with exclamation points
• bold text by bracketing it with asterisks
• italicize text by bracketing it with UNDERSCORES (that’s shift-dash on your keyboard)
• to separate paragraphs, hit the enter key two times – textile doesn’t recognize “newline” with just one enter.

you can make text HUGE by starting a new line with h1.

you can make text less huge but still big by starting a new line with h2.

don’t forget the period-space for h1. & h2.

do it now if you haven’t yet.

find a blank area of space and double-click it. see what happened? a new note is created!!! just start typing into the SUBJECT line of the new note, and then hit return, and then start typing into the BODY of the new note. it’s a lot like writing an email to your future self.

• if you want to create a bulleted list in a metanote,
  • and i know you do…
• you need to know what an asterisk is.
• it’s the little “star” that shows up when you hit Shift-8 on any standard keyboard.
• If you begin any new line in a metanote with “asterisk” and then a space, this will begin a BULLET LIST automatically!
  • To make sub-bullets, enter two asterisks at the beginning of the line.
• It’s very simple once you get used to it!!!

you need to understand “hex” color code, like ”#ffff00=yellow” still. but it’s so easy… (make sure you include the # sign)

just click the “contextual menu” button on the bottom left of each note and select “color”.

this will open a wizard where you can change the text and background color of that note!

Learn more about ‘hex’ color codes here

we wanted to subvert the dominant up-and-down paradigm.

thanks for stopping by. get used to the system – we’re going to be doing a lot more to it soon :) -srini

click the alarm clock icon on the top right of the screen!

• If you’re reading this message you’re already getting a feel for the MetaNotes system and what it can do for you.
• MetaNotes consists of notes on very wide and tall spaces.
  • Double-click on the background of this page to create a new note.
  • You can resize, windowshade and close notes with the controls on the corners of notes.
• Explore the options in the menus on the top toolbar.
  • To go to your METASPACE, or list of spaces, click your username in the menu!
• You can click and drag the background to navigate around the wide space quickly. You can also navigate using your arrow keys !
• You can create a new workspace on any topic with your “Tools” menu.
• You can embed images by tighly bracketing the image’s URL with exclamation points.
• You can embed YouTube videos by pasting the embed code into a new note.
• Of course you can paste text from your travels around the Web into your notes for research purposes.
• And naturally, use MetaNotes to compose your own ideas and plans.
  • Explore other users’ accounts to see how THEY are using MetaNotes.
• Explore the other spaces in your account for more ideas about how to use MetaNotes. Over time you’ll collect so much information in your account !

Hi! Welcome to METANOTES.

Click the ? in the top right corner to see the HELP.

• click it to “zoop” to the top left of the entire space!
• this is a quick and good thing to do if you get lost on a page or want to go back to the beginning.

You can click on the outer yellow border of the ad block if you want to hide it!

we made the left border a little bit thicker in order to make it easy enough to click on.

this way the google ads don’t get in your way after you look at them.

my email is teamsrini@gmail.com :)

try it now!

Double-click the background to create a new note. Then just start typing. Hit TAB to save.

when you create your own first space. this is just sort of the help documentation – start creating spaces and notes on your chosen topics as soon as possible !!!

pardon our dust, we are still “in development”. send me feedback at teamsrini@gmail.com :)

• MetaNotes is a new way to take notes and store and arrange content either solo or in a team.
• MetaNotes is made of NOTES ON SPACES which contain your ideas and those of others.
• we are still sort of pre-launch so pardon our dust & tell us if you have any ideas.
• please don’t violate copyright, pretty please, or else we’ll have to delete your notes upon request. thanks.
• everything here is public space right now – we are trying to create a culture of sharing and openness.

to create a note on this space just find some empty space and double-click. that’s it!

• Scroll WAY to the west and to the south !!!
• You’ll be able to create spaces with hundreds of notes on them.
• Click and drag the background to scroll around the space really fast.
• You can also use the arrow keys on your keyboard.
• finally, see that little arrow on the top left corner? click that from anywhere to return back to the top left of the screen.

• change the background of any space! just go to the Tools->Workspace Settings menu option and paste the URL of an image you want for the background in the Background Image field.
• surf into other people’s notespaces! just go to your People menu to see their lists of spaces.

to start a new space, just select “create a space” in your tools menu.

You see an image you want to see again and again, so you want to save it to your MetaNotes account! All right:

• right-click the image.
• select “Copy Image Location”.
• create a new note and title it.
• *type ”!” then “ctrl-v” then ”!”.

Here’s an example:

For a permanent image link, upload your image to a free hosting service (like photobucket.com) and embed the ‘direct link’ url into a note. Don’t forget to flank the link with exclamation points!

you can change the background image of this or any space. you will need to find the image you want to replace it with first. just surf around until you find a background you like. then, in Firefox:

• right-click the image
• select “Copy Image Location”, which copies the URL of the image into your clipboard
• come back to this space
• go to the Tools menu and select Space Preferences…
• PASTE the desired image URL into the “Background Image” field of the Space Preferences wizard.
• Then click “Submit”, and then click anywhere else to make the wizard go away.

Click the icon on the top-left of any note to WINDOWSHADE that note – try it now !!! This saves you a lot of space and creates room when you need it.

Double-click anywhere on the background to CREATE A NEW NOTE. And hit TAB to save.

Enter the subject of the note first, then hit return, then start typing (or copy-paste something) into the body of your new note. Then you can slide the note all around the space, resize it, etc. You can have hundreds of notes on a page, and you have all kinds of space to fill up.

To create a NEW space with whatever name you want as the title, use the TOOLS -> CREATE SPACE menu option.

A spectre is haunting the Mass Media—the spectre of User Generated Content. All the powers of the Mass Media have entered into an unholy alliance to exorcise and co-opt this spectre: CNN and the New York Times, major record labels and fundamentalist preachers, Washington DC spinmeisters and Chinese police-state information wardens.

Where is the media in opposition that has not been decried as unprofessional or anarchistic by its opponents in power? Where is the opposition that has not hurled back the branding reproach of iconoclastic self-expression and diversity of information and opinion against its reactionary adversaries?

Two things result from this fact:

I. User Generated Content is already acknowledged by all Old Media powers to be itself a media power.

II. It is high time that the creative forces of User Generated Content should openly, in the face of the whole world, publish their views, their aims, their tendencies, and meet this nursery tale of the spectre of non-conformist expression with a manifesto of User Generated Content itself.

To this end, independent Internet creatives behind various online projects have assembled to develop this website and sketch the following manifesto so that you, too, can join the User Generated Content revolution fast.

In short, Internet self-publishers everywhere support every creative movement against the existing social and political order of the Media Monopoly that overwhelms the minds of the Public with conformist programming masquerading as fact and entertainment.

In all these movements, they bring to the front, as the leading question in each, the creative principle and the right to broadcast the fruits of the imagination, no matter what the creator’s technological or expressive sophistication at the time.

Finally, they labor everywhere for the free flow of information and democratization of expression of all countries and demographics.

The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of media monopoly.

Editor-in-chief and revolutionary pamphleteer, upscale gallery owner and graffiti artist, media conglomerate and indie rocker, government regulatory bureau and pirate radio operator, in a word, oppressor and oppressed, stood in constant opposition to one another, carried on an uninterrupted, now hidden, now open contest for the eyes, ears, hearts and minds of the People, a contest that each time ended, either in a revolutionary reconstitution of the means of communication at large, or in the abandonment of old media structures and strategies for new.

The modern mass media society that has sprouted from the brainwashing technology of television and media consolidation has not done away with independent publishing. It has but established new fronts in media dominion, new tactics of inforrmation suppression, and new forms of independent broadcast in place of the old ones.

The individuals creating MetaNotes disdain to conceal their views and aims. They openly declare that their ends can be attained only by the overthrow of the monopoly on communication previously held by those who control the means of mass communication. Let the networks and newspapers tremble at a User Generated Content revolution. The creators and users of MetaNotes have nothing to lose but the programmed portions of their brains. They have a universe – and a powerful and autonomous new future – to win.

Notetakers of all countries, unite!