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The reasons card

The reasons card is the one place a whole proposal is spelled out in words, and the place you say why you decided a frame. Read this page when a mark puzzles you, or when you want to record a reason while the thought is still fresh.

Opening and closing it​

Press E on the frame you are on, in Single or in Frames, and the card appears in the lower-left corner of the content area. Press E again to close it; the small ✕ at its head and Esc close it too. In Single, the why link on the proposal pill under the photograph opens the same card.

The card belongs to its photograph rather than to the screen. Move to the next frame and it hides; come back and it is there again. Clicking anywhere else on the page lands where you aimed — the card never swallows a click meant for a cell.

The card opens on any frame, with proposals on or off, because the top of it is yours. Decide a frame while its card is open and the app's block goes — a decided frame carries no proposal — but your own chips stay. With auto-advance on, as it is unless you turn it off, the decision also moves you to the next frame, and the card hides with the frame it belongs to; come back to the frame and the card is there, your chips with it and the app's block gone. On the last frame of the pass, or with auto-advance off, the card stays open where you decided.

The reasons card on a proposed Reject: the nine chips, the headline, one rule line and the disclaimer

Your reasons, at the top​

The head reads Why — DSCF7601.JPG, the file name in mono, then Kept with the decision. Nothing here changes the photograph. Under it are nine reasons as chips — Moment, Expression, Eyes, Focus, Light, Composition, Duplicate, Album, Client — each wearing a key from ⌘1 to ⌘9. Click a chip and it is written onto the frame at once. The keys belong to the note card (N), where they toggle the same nine chips; on this card, use the mouse. There is no Save, because a reason is not a draft. A line under the chips counts what is there: 3 reasons on this frame, or nothing yet.

These are the same nine reasons the note card carries. They are kept with the decision, in the library and beside the photograph, and note:duplicate in search finds a frame whose chip is Duplicate.

What the app says, under them​

When the app has something to say about this frame, a block under your chips spells it out:

  1. The proposal in words, with its mark beside it: proposed Take, proposed Reject, look at this — no proposal, or no proposal.
  2. How strong the mark is, when it is your taste's own: a bet · 91%, a lean · 71%, or a lean · 58% · in the top quarter of this card when it was the card's own quarters that marked the frame. On the card, the percentage appears on this line and nowhere else; outside the card, the header in Single and a strip cell's hover sentence carry the same number.
  3. One line per rule, in the rule's own sentence with the number it read — Under the sharpness floor of 30 — subject 14. The rule's name is underlined: click it and the Proposals and criteria pane opens with that rule's row outlined, which is where its number lives.
  4. Your taste's line, last, when your taste touched the proposal: In your taste: you kept 4 of 5 like this — a subject this sharp. Before you have decided anything it names the measurement and counts nothing: In your taste: a subject this sharp.

The reasons card on a lean, with the strength line and the In your taste line

Where a rule proposed the bin and your taste held it back, the card says exactly that: The look-alike rule proposed the bin; your taste held it back — you keep 7 in 10 like this. That frame carries no proposal, which is why nothing else on screen says anything about it.

With proposals off, or on a frame no rule touched, the whole block is absent. The card never invents a claim to fill it.

Your note​

Under the app's lines, a frame with a note shows it under the heading Your note, whole. The small Note… button opens the note card, the same one N opens: a line of your own, already focused, and the nine chips. ↩ saves, Esc throws the draft away. The button reads Edit note… once the frame has a note, and also once it has any reason chip on, even with no note text, so the card can say Edit note… under a frame with no Your note block. Nothing ever asks you for a note; a frame without one is the normal case.

At the foot of every card is the sentence every measured claim in Vixlo carries: Measured from the frames · no decision is changed automatically.