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Resize a note or folder card

Select a note or folder card on a BaseHalf canvas and drag a corner or a side to resize it. A PDF keeps one size.

I had already written a Monday review brief in a BaseHalf folder, next to a one-page agenda PDF and a small notes folder. When I opened that folder in BaseHalf 0.7.0, the brief's card was too short to read in place. The last lines were cut off.

A BaseHalf canvas titled 2026-11-14-am-resize, with a notes folder, a monday-review-agenda.pdf cover, and a Monday review brief whose last lines are cut off at the default card size.

I selected the brief. Resize handles appeared on the corners and sides of the card. I dragged a corner down until the whole checklist was visible, including the line that says to stop on the first page that fails.

The Monday review brief selected on the canvas, with resize handles on the corners and sides, still too short to show the last lines of the checklist.

The same canvas after the brief was resized. The whole checklist is readable, the notes folder is a little larger, and the agenda PDF is still the same size.

I also selected the notes folder and dragged a corner. It resized too. The card still listed owners and todo, just with a little more room.

The agenda PDF did not work the same way. When I selected it, the card kept its cover at one size. There were no resize handles on the corners or sides.

The agenda PDF selected on the canvas, still at its original cover size, with no resize handles on the corners or sides, beside the now readable brief.

The new sizes were saved in the folder, under .bh/. The brief went from 300 by 220 to 300 by 507. The folder card changed as well. The PDF stayed 300 by 400.

The canvas and cards docs say you select the card of a note, another file, or a folder, then drag a corner or a side. The card of an image or a video has its picture's shape, a PDF or a book has one size, and a sound keeps the size of a file card. Card places and sizes stay out of git; BaseHalf writes its own ignore file under .bh/, and it never touches your .gitignore.