1. Project Name - click to open your project. Also shows the complexity level you selected underneath.
2. Citation Sources - how many citations you have listed in the project. Click to open the Sources screen.
3. Note Cards - how many note cards you have created. Click to open the Note Cards screen.
4. Attachments - how many attached files you have linked to the project. Click the icon to open the Attachments screen.
Clicking on a project entry opens the project's Sources page. This lists all of the source citations you have created. You can see what files are connected to each citation. You can also see what note cards are associated, create new note cards directly by clicking "New", and view any metadata tags you have created to organize your citations.
To add a citation to your project, click the 
button. This will open the citation creation tool, showcased to the right of this box.
First, you must select what you are citing and from what origin your source is from. The "Citing" field is the overall citation version. If you select "Article", the right-hand column "From" will change to include frequent source origins.
This will fundamentally change how the citation window will be structured, including information required for your particular citation source's format.
This is another way to select an overall format. The right-hand citation tab will change depending on what format you select. Most common are Print, Website, and Database. The sections outlined in 1. will also change depending on what you select in 2.
To create the strongest citation for your chosen source, fill out as many information fields as possible. Citations are meant to be exhaustive, concrete informational entries others (including your instructor) can refer to. This information will be automatically formatted for you - NoodleTools does the work.
This section's content will change depending on the format of your source. Above is an example of a source: from an article in a physical magazine.
This is the origin of your source. Articles can come from magazines, databases, newspapers, and more - those are source origins. You can click the down arrow to the right of the origin name to select a different origin type. In this case, this origin is a physical magazine.
1. Media Type - this is the format you choose for the citation. Magazine, Newspaper, Book, etc.
2. Citation - this is how the citation looks like with all the information you have filled out, in the format chosen (in this case, MLA). Note it even has the hanging indent and italicization of the journal title!
3. Note cards - how many note cards you have created linked to this citation. Also allows you to create a note card directly linked to this source.
4. Drop-down menu - this menu lets you edit and manage the source citation after creation.
Note: Next to Note Cards is a button (not shown here) you can click to view attached files (if you attached any to the citation).