Working with Pages
A canvas isn't limited to one page. You can add as many as you need and move between them, all within the same paycheck's canvas.
Adding a page
Add a page and it's appended to the end, and you're taken to it. New pages start blank.
Moving between pages
Pages sit in an ordered sequence and you swipe or step between them. Your position is remembered while you work.
Deleting a page
You can delete any page you no longer want — with one restriction: a canvas must always have at least one page. Attempting to delete the last remaining page does nothing.
If you want to clear the only page rather than remove it, erase or lasso-select its contents instead.
Deleting is immediate and there's no undo at the page level. Undo covers strokes within a page, not the page itself.
What to use multiple pages for
The natural unit is one page per idea.
If you're working through a tight pay period, you might use one page for the situation as it stands and a second for the version where you've moved things around. Keeping them apart means you can compare rather than overwrite — which is harder to do on a single page once you've started erasing.
Other useful splits:
- ›Current situation on one page, proposed change on the next
- ›One page per option when you're weighing several
- ›A working page for arithmetic and a clean page for the conclusion
Pages and paychecks
Worth restating, because it catches people out: pages live inside a single paycheck's canvas. They aren't a way to organize across pay periods.
Each paycheck has its own canvas with its own pages. Moving to a different paycheck on the home screen takes you to a different canvas entirely — your pages don't follow you there. See Moving Between Paychecks.
If you want a note that persists across your whole budget rather than sitting on one period, the notes field on the budget itself is the better place. See Naming Your Budget.
Saving
All pages save automatically along with the rest of the canvas — shortly after you stop drawing, and when you leave the screen. There's nothing to save manually.