Browsing Bookstack
Now that we have an overview of BookStack and briefly touched on some of the core features we are going to take a deep dive into navigating around BookStack and the TNTable Wiki. This page will cover getting set up to browse efficiently, some useful features on the interface, as well as some tags that are going to be helpful for organising content. Let's dive in.
Keyboard Shortcuts
This requires some set up to enable, but it is strongly recommended to do so as it can make browsing much faster. There is even a super helpful overlay cheat-sheet available.
First step is to click on your profile in the top-right corner. Then into My Account > UI Shortcut Preferences. Check that box to enable keyboard shortcuts and we are ready to go. Take some time to look over available shortcuts but don't worry too much about remembering them. BookStack has a neat trick to make it easy to check. On any page (except the editor, we will get to that later) simply type a question mark (?) and an overlay will appear with available shortcuts.
This is useful for navigating to the search bar without your hands leaving the keyboard, or going to all the books available. When viewing pages you can navigate to the previous or next page too. If you are reading a page and want to make an edit simply press e to start editing.
Breadcrumbs
For those unfamiliar with breadcrumbs in this context keep on reading. Anybody that is can skip to the next paragraph. Breadcrumbs in a web-browsing context are similar to the breadcrumb trail left by Hansel und Gretel. It is a trail through the layers of navigation to get to a page. For example look at the top of this page. It goes Shelves > Wiki > Contribution Guide > Browsing BookStack.
Each page has a references section to see all the pages that link to them. This can be useful if you are on a server page and want to see what projects are linked, or other pages.
In the top there are "breadcrumbs", basically a path to where you are from the Shelf all the way to the Page you are viewing. You can also click on the arrows between content to see all the pages, books, or chapters at that level. This means you don't have to go back to see the list of pages, or back to books to switch from servers to projects.