Read a folder as one document

Some things are one document that happens to live in many files: a manuscript, a handbook, a long report with a file per section.

Flow view reads a whole folder as one continuous document, in order, with an outline beside it.

Opening it

Right-click a folder and open it in Flow view.

Every markdown note in the folder appears one after another, including notes in subfolders, in the order you’ve arranged them.

The outline

Beside the text, a list of the sections. It shows where you are as you scroll, and you can drag entries to reorder the whole thing — which reorders the underlying files, not just the view.

This is the bit that makes it more than a preview. Restructuring a long piece becomes dragging in a list rather than renaming files.

The outline tracks where you are, and reorders the real files when you drag it.

It’s read-only

Deliberately. Flow view is for reading and rearranging; to edit a section, click it and it opens in the editor beside. When you’re done, the flow re-renders.

The reason is honest: one live editor per section would mean a dozen independent save-and-sync paths on screen at once, which is a good way to lose work.

Exporting

Export the whole thing as one file:

• Markdown — everything concatenated
• Plain text
• RTF — for handing to someone in Word
• PDF

Which makes Pellet a reasonable place to write something long that eventually has to leave as a single document.

Ordering

The order comes from your manual folder arrangement — drag notes in the sidebar to change it. That order is stored with the vault, so it travels and syncs.