Fill In Notes are a great way to engage your congregation with fill-in notes or to create Bulletins, discussion questions, or other resources. Fill In Notes are included with your Subsplash subscription.
Logging in to Fill in Notes
Fill in Notes can be found in your Dashboard under Library > Fill in Notes. You'll be presented with this login page - just log in with your Subsplash Dashboard credentials.
The main navigation area is in the upper left-hand of the screen: Pages, Collections, and Apps.
Pages: Shows the listing of all notes created for your organization. Here you can create a new Page or edit an existing note.
Collections: Shows your notes organized by — you guessed it — collections you've created. You can add each note you create to a collection for better organization of your content. These collections could be based on the type of note (sermon or Bible study), the sermon series, or any other breakdown you'd like to use.
Apps: Shows any apps you are connected to on the Subsplash platform. Selecting here allows you to switch between the Fill In Notes directories for each app, as well as copy the Latest published URL.
This URL allows you to create a single link item in your app that will always show the most recently published Fill In Note.
The latest published URL will always show the most recently created note, no matter what collection it is in. Keep this in mind if you use collections to differentiate between various types of notes, and you don't want them all showing in the same place. In this situation, you may need to grab each link specifically.
The speedometer icon in the top left-hand corner will take you back to your Subsplash dashboard, so you can add your new note to the app quickly and easily.
Creating Fill in Notes
The Menu: From here you can find your other documents and note collections, and adjust your settings.
Fill In: Highlight a word and click Fill In to transform the word or phrase into a fill-in-the-blank entry for your congregation.
Free-Form Notes: Click this to create a free-form note so your congregation can enter their notes.
Formatting Options: Highlight text and make it bold, italicized, in quotes, and more.
Publish: Make sure to publish your note, otherwise, it won’t be visible to your audience.
Preview: Use the preview to see what your Note will look like before you publish it.
Share: Click Share to get the URL you’ll use to link to your note in your app.
Page Settings: Choose your note's subtitle, author, and header color in the document settings menu. You can also schedule a date and time for your note to be published.
Images: You can add images to your notes using HTML using this code snippet:
<img src=”URL” alt=”image title/description”>
Use Fill in Notes in your App
Fill In Notes is a flexible tool that can be used differently. Here are just 2 examples to get you started. Remember you can use specific Fill in Note URLs or the Latest published URL if you want the notes to update automatically as you publish
Link Item
Use your Fill in Notes URL in a link item, set it to App Link, and place it in your app on a list for your users to access.
Tab
Create a Browser tab and use your Fill in Note URL.
Media Item
Use the Web Link field in a media item or add the URL to the description to provide Fill in Notes to your users, great for associating specific notes to a sermon.
Examples
Sermon Notes
Create notes for your congregation to follow along during the sermon. Add them to the media item in Additional Resources.
Bulletins
You can add it to the Media Item or add it as a link through your Library.