The notes widget allows you to write notes, add pictures, videos, links, and messages on dashboards. It is essentially a post it note that you can add on to your dashboard that allows you to embed different types of media on to Cascade.
To add a notes widget:
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Click on "Add widget"
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Select the notes Widget
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Click and drag the bottom right corner to your desired size.
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Start typing!
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To add a hyperlink click anywhere on the widget and click on the link icon
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You can also add images, charts, and different formatting this way as well
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To edit the widget title, simply click on the title which is saved automatically.
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To add a video, click on the ... icon and select "video" instead of note
To add images in the Notes widget:
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Download the image you want to embed as a JPEG
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Upload on google - https://photos.google.com/
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Create a shareable link from the image you just uploaded
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Put the shareable link into this website (https://ctrlq.org/google/photos/) which converts it to code we can embed in Cascade
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Paste the embed code into the photo button
If you have issues using the above method, try the following:
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Upload the image you want to embed to this site: https://postimages.org/
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Copy the direct link generated for the image.
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Click the image button in the notes widget, and paste the link into the URL section of both of the two tabs.
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Click the green OK button and the image will appear in the notes widget.