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### Facets

Mental Notes are made up of one or more facets, which can each include formatted text, audio, and/or an image or video. A facet can contain more than one piece of content. For example, you could include an image, with some caption text, or you could have a foreign language word with some audio of the spoken word.

You can capture content in many different ways. Of course, you enter text with the keyboard, or paste it in. You can browse your hard disk for image, video, or audio files, or you can drag them into the facet. Mental Case also supports built-in screenshots, so you can capture from other apps, and can snap photos with cameras attached to your Mac, including the built-in FaceTime camera.

A mental note can have as many facets as you choose, and you can label each facet with a role. The role is simply for your own benefit. It appears in slideshows to help you orient yourself in the content you are studying.

A facet can be used in a slideshow as a prompt or response. There is only one prompt for each note; it could be a question or other mental trigger that requires you to think up a response or answer. You don’t have to use a prompt. If there are no facets that can be used as a prompt, the note will just appear with responses.

Although there is at most one prompt facet for each note in a slideshow, there can be several candidates. Each facet can be configured to allow it to be used as a prompt. If a note has more than one facet that can be the prompt, Mental Case will make a choice based on the slideshow settings.

Although you don’t directly layout slides in Mental Case, like you would in an application like Keynote, you can configure some aspects of the appearance of a facet. The background color used on the slide can be set, along with text color, alignment, font, and font size. Customization of facet appearance can be used simply to make your slideshows more attractive, or as a powerful aid to memory.

#### See also

Mental Note Topics
Adding and Removing Facets
Configuring Facets