Annotations

When you follow a link to a file, Foldie reminds you about files and folders that are similarly named as the target file. For Name.ext and Name-X.ext these are all other files in the same directory that start with Name. You can use this feature to add annotation files into the same physical folder or in an overlay.

In a big band you could put playing instructions for Song.pdf into Song-trumpets.txt.

Creating annotation folders

Besides creating sibling files and folders outside of Foldie, Foldie supports you in creating annotation folders with the suffix -Info, when the feature Create Annotation Files and Folders is enabled.

While browsing, simply expand the link section and in the siblings section tap the Create Annotation button. Foldie presents you a list of possible destinations. After choosing a destination, Foldie creates the Info folder in the correct subdirectory of the Base Folder after creating intermediate directories as neccessary.

One of the following conditions must be given for this to work:

• You have enabled a default overlay folder in settings.
• In your virtual folder definition, you have one or more mounted folders, for which the Folder Mirroring option is enabled.

Use case: Big band

Each score is a PDF that contains scores for each instrument. To instruct guest players, add an Info folder score-Info to each score, with a file per instrument group (e.g. trumpets.pages) that contains

• overall playing instructions, such as which mute to use,
• for each instrument voice (trumpet 1, trumpet 2, trumpet 3) the page number within the score file to look up the relevant notes quicker.

The trumpets may manage their own information and share it in a trumpet-internal overlay folder, so other instrument groups even do not see the annotations.