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Getting Started With OrbitNote

How to install OrbitNote

To install OrbitNote go to orbit.texthelp.com

This will prompt you to sign in with Google or Microsoft and ask you to allow permissions.

OrbitNote sign in screen

Select your account, then make sure to check and accept all permissions:

screenshot of permissions window

Congratulations! You have successfully installed OrbitNote!

How to open a PDF from Google Drive into OrbitNote

Go to your Google Drive and double click on the PDF to open it in Drive’s preview window. At the top of the page click on Open with ⏷ and select OrbitNote

Open with dropdown menu showing options to open a PDF and OrbitDoc is one of those options

You can also open up a Drive PDF from the OrbitNote dashboard at orbit.texthelp.com

Click on “Open PDF from Google Drive”.

Open PDF from Google Drive button on the OrbitDoc dashboard

A file picker window will pop up and you can select the PDF you would like to open.

File picker popup window showing PDFs in your Google Drive that you can select

How to open PDFs from OneDrive

You will first need to install the lightweight extension from the dashboard. To install the extension, go to the OrbitNote dashboard at orbit.texthelp.com and under Resources click on Install Extension.

Screenshot of a button in the orbitdoc dashboard that installs the companion extension

A new tab will appear asking you to Add to Chrome.

Then from OneDrive, double click a PDF to open, and in the top left of the preview click the option to "Open with OrbitNote":

Open with OrbitNote

PDF's can also be opened from OneDrive directly from the OrbitNote dashboard at orbit.texthelp.com :

option to open PDF from OneDrive

How to open a local PDF in OrbitNote

You can drag PDFs from your file explorer into the OrbitNote dashboard. 

Gif showing how to drag a file from file explorer to the orditdoc dashboard section that says

Additional Functionality

We have a lightweight extension that you can install that will allow you to open web PDFs in OrbitNote and integrate into Google Classroom and Schoology. 

For more information about OrbitNote and Schoology please see Using OrbitNote With Schoology

To install the extension, go to the OrbitNote dashboard and under Resources click on Install Extension.

Screenshot of a button in the orbitdoc dashboard that installs the companion extension

A new tab will appear asking you to Add to Chrome.

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