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How to Create Notes

The Notes feature allows you to create notes and attach them to past dates. Notes are just text and can contain anything you want.

Being able to take notes and paste them into your data can be a powerful feature, its simplicity makes it an invaluable tool for help you understand your data.

Why Create Notes?

Every time you make a change to your website, whether it's as simple as a new blog post or as complicated as a complete redesign, you can write it down in MVMCloud Analytics. When you look back and see that certain dates have more visits than others, you see You can look at the notes you took to find out why. Then, you can act based on this new information.

Most of the time, the possible notes you can take are only limited by your imagination, but here are some ideas to get you started:

  • Changes to website content and design (new blog posts, new website design, etc.);
  • Email newsletters and email marketing campaigns;
  • Offline advertising launches (print, radio, television, etc.);
  • Important business milestones, such as product launches;
  • Key calendar events such as holidays.

If something important happens for your website or business, be sure to note it in MVMCloud Analytics so you know if it affects your visits.

Create and Edit Notes

You can add annotations to any line graph that shows visits over time. For example, this includes the Overview in the Visitors section as shown below, the Goals report, or many others. You can create and edit notes by following the steps below.

How to create notes

  1. Navigate to a page that contains a line revolution chart as shown below;

Create annotation

  1. When reviewing a line evolution chart, click the notes icon which will load all notes within the selected date range;

Create annotation 3. To create a note, click the Create note button; 4. Finally, enter a note (and optionally change the date of the note) and click Save to add the new note.

How to edit notes

If you made a mistake or your notes are no longer relevant, it's easy to edit or delete them by following the steps below. Note that you must be logged in and have the permissions to do this. If you do not see an edit icon as discussed below, then you do not have the appropriate permissions.

  1. Click the annotation icon Annotation Icon to expand the annotations in the range selected dates;
  2. Click the edit icon Edit icon next to the annotation that want to edit; Create annotation
  3. Update the date, label and date as appropriate by clicking on the relevant section;
  4. Click Save to confirm your edits.

How to delete notes

  1. Click the annotation icon Annotation Icon to expand the annotations in the range selected dates;
  2. Click the edit icon Edit icon next to the annotation that want to delete;
  3. Click the delete icon Delete icon to delete the note and it will be deleted immediately . Create annotation

Highlight Important Notes

When you add a note for a date, a small gray icon Notes Icon is shown below the line evolution graph. However, if you have many notes of varying importance, it may be helpful to highlight significant events. To do this, you can click on the star icon to highlight it with gold star Icon star within the annotation list and also highlighted in the chart view with an annotation icon highlighted in green Annotation icon.

Create annotation