In NoodleTools, you will create one project that contains all your citations, notecards, and other work (outline, attachments, etc.)
Step 1:
On the Projects screen, click the green New Project button in the upper-right corner. The "Create a New Project" panel opens.
Step 2:
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Project title |
Enter a brief description that will help you remember the contents or purpose of this project when you see it later among other projects in your account. |
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Citation style |
Select the citation style you will use for this project. If necessary, ask your teacher or instructor before choosing between MLA, APA, or Chicago. You will be able to change the style later if you need to, but it is always best to start with the citation style your teacher wants you to use. Note: if you are using NoodleTools MLA Lite, the style is automatically set to MLA and this option is not available. |
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Citation level |
Select the level for your project. As a general guide, we recommend:
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Step 3:
Click Submit. Your new project appears at the top on the Projects screen. Clicking on the project title will bring you to the Sources screen where you can start adding your source citations.
See video below for a quick demonstration on how to create a new project in NoodleTools:
You can create a duplicate copy of an entire project (source list, notecards and outline) in your own account, or transfer a copy to another NoodleTools user.
For instructions on how to copy individual citations, see "How to copy source citations."
Step 1:
On the Projects screen, click the "More options" icon button (three dots) next to the project and select "Copy."
To copy more than one project at a time, click the checkboxes to the left of each project you wish to copy. The checkboxes will appear when you mouse-over the small dark-gray rectangle to the left of a project title (or long-press the row on an iPad). A "Projects selected" bar appears at the top. Click "Copy."
Step 2:
In the "Copy projects" window, select "my own personal folder" if you want to duplicate the project in your own account, or select "another user’s folder" and enter a personal ID to transfer a copy of the project to another user.
Step 3:
Click Submit. If there are multiple users with the same personal ID, you may be prompted to identify the school or account type of the user before the transfer completes.
Your project should have a short title that uniquely describes it (typically the subject of your research). Avoid generic titles like "Research paper" or "Final project."
Step 1:
On the Projects screen, next to the project you want to rename, click the "More options" icon (three dots) and select "Rename."
Step 2:
Enter a new title in the field and press Enter (or click outside the edit area).
You can email a RTF version of your source list and an HTML version of your notecards and/or outline to yourself or someone else. The recipient will be able to open the source list in a word processing program. The HTML versions of the notecards and outline can be opened in any Web browser. The recipient is not able to log in to your personal folder or change your master project in any way – only a copy of your work is sent. While there is also no way for the recipient to import the RTF version of your source list into their own personal folder, you can share an editable copy of your project with another NoodleTools user. See “How to copy a project" above.
Step 1:
On the Sources screen, click the "More Options" icon (three dots) and select "Email"
Step 2:
In the "Email" window, enter your name, the recipient’s email address, and if your source list contains notecards or an outline, check the box to Include outline and/or Include notecards.
Step 3:
Click Send to email the source list and if included outline and/or notecards.
NOTE: The Google Docs paper is not included in the email. If you want to email the paper to someone, log in to your Google Docs account and email it from there.
Two or more projects in your account can be merged into a single project. As a safeguard, the original projects you select to merge will also remain in your account unchanged. The new merged project will be added to your account, identified by a new description that you provide.
NOTE: Merging projects with different levels will result in a project set to the highest level (e.g., merging a Starter and Junior project will yield a Junior-level project).
Step 1:
On the Projects screen, click the checkboxes to the left of each project you wish to merge. The checkboxes will appear when you mouse-over the small dark-gray rectangle to the left of a project title (or long-press the row on an iPad). A "Projects selected" bar appears at the top. Click "Merge." All projects must be the same citation style.
Step 2:
Enter a new title in the "Project title" field and identify whether you want NoodleTools to remove duplicate citations in the merged project, and/or include notecards from the original projects in the merged project.
If you want to include an outline in the merged project, select which project's outline to include.
Step 3:
Click Submit. The new merged project appears at the top of your Projects screen.
How to Delete a Project
One or more projects can be deleted by checking the boxes to the left of the projects on the Projects screen, and click Delete above the projects. The selected projects will no longer appear in your account.
When deleted, projects are moved into a recycle bin (not trashed permanently), so no matter what happens you can be assured that your hard work is not lost!
How to Restore an Accidentally-Deleted Project
Step 1:
On the Projects screen, click the "More options" icon button (three dots) and select "Undelete."
Step 2:
In the "Restore deleted projects" window, check the box next to the project you want to restore. Click the Undelete button.
Step 3:
The restored project appears on your Projects screen.
Note about collaborative projects:
When you delete a collaborative project, your access to that project is removed but the project will remain accessible to the other students. The project will not be in your recycle bin -- instead of "undeleting" it, you will need to ask your classmate to re-add you as a collaborator on that project.
By default, the Projects screen displays projects last edited in the current school year (using July 1st as the cut-off date). This keeps the view clean, displaying only the active projects you care about.
Note: This school-year filtering replaces the old mechanism of manually "archiving" older projects.
At the top of the Projects screen, in the dropdown filter displaying the current school year, select a different school year. Projects last edited during that school year are displayed.
The Projects screen is paginated, so if you have more than 20 projects associated with a particular school year, use the page numbers at the bottom-right to navigate through them as needed.
Note: If you have a project associated with a previous school year, opening it and saving a change will automatically move it into the current school year view, for easy access after that.
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