Format and rearrange blocks

A meeting note rarely keeps its first shape. Use the block gutter to turn a paragraph into a heading, drag an action item beside the agenda to form two columns, or promote a paragraph about a new Project into a Project Object of its own.

Open the block action menu

Point at a block and select its gutter handle. The menu shows only actions that apply to that block:

• Action Panel… opens a horizontal toolbar for the selection, including Bold (Ctrl+B), Italic (Ctrl+I), Underline (Ctrl+U), and Strikethrough (Ctrl+Shift+S).
• Hierarchy and List change a text block into a heading level, a bulleted or numbered list, or back to plain text. To-do, Quote, and Toggle convert it directly.
• Group (Ctrl+G) wraps the block in a group container; Ungroup on a group unwraps it.
• Collapsible and Color set a text block’s collapse state and background color.
• AI assistant… runs an AI action on a non-empty text block. Without a configured provider, it prompts you to set one up. See AI.
• Turn into… creates an Object from the block (see below). Turn into Object Type appears on a table with data rows.
• Display as switches an Object link or embed between Inline link, Compact card, Card, and Embed.
• Comment (Ctrl+Shift+M) starts a thread anchored to the block. See Comments and discussions.
• Copy offers Copy blocks, Copy as Markdown, and Copy block reference.
• Move up, Move down, Duplicate, and Remove finish the menu.

Move blocks and build columns

Drag the gutter handle to move a block. The drop indicator shows where it will land.

1. Drag a top-level block to the left or right edge of another block. Lar creates a row of columns.
2. Drop more blocks into a column to stack them.
3. Drag the divider between columns to resize them.

Columns use a single nesting level. When you remove content so that only one column is left, Lar returns its blocks to the normal page flow.

Turn a block into an Object

When a paragraph grows into something you want to track — a Book, a Person, a Project — promote it:

1. Open the block’s action menu and choose Turn into…, or type / and choose Convert to object….
2. Pick an Object Type.

Lar creates the Object with the block’s text as its title, replaces that text with an inline link to it, and opens the new Object. It has its own page, properties, and backlinks.

A table’s Turn into Object Type goes further: it creates a new Type from the table’s columns and one Object per data row.

Undo and redo

Body edits have their own undo history, separate from edits to properties and relations. Ctrl+Z undoes the change in whichever surface you’re working in, so undoing a typo never reverts a property you set a moment earlier. For older checkpoints, use Version history.

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