Notes

Notes are pages of your own, in folders: meeting notes, drafts, checklists, research. Everything saves as you type, the AI can polish what you wrote, and a note or a whole folder can be shared by link.

Writing #

• New note (the round button on a phone, or c) starts a note with its title ready to type. Enter moves on to the body. Skip the title and just start writing: a note you never name is called by its first line.
• There is no Save button: a note saves itself as you type, and when you leave it. A new note you leave empty is thrown away.
• Click the title to rename it; Esc puts the old one back. The emoji beside the title is the note's icon — tap it to pick another, search for one by name, or paste one.
• On a computer the bar over a note shows where it lives: each folder above it, then the note's icon and title. Click a folder there to show it in the tree. On a phone the folders are over the note's text.
• The bin in the note's bar, or Delete in its row's ⋯, deletes it at once, with Undo to bring it back.

Rich and Text #

The drop-down at the end of the toolbar chooses how a note is written:

Rich

Formatting drawn as you write: headings from the Text menu, bold, italic, links, bulleted and numbered lists and checklists. Checklist boxes tick with a click. Type / at the start of a line for a menu of blocks (headings, checklist, lists, quote, table, divider): keep typing to narrow it, ↑/↓ and Enter to pick, Esc to close.

Text

Plain text, exactly as typed, with no toolbar. Switching a Rich note to Text takes the formatting off; switching back reads the text as a new Rich note.

Polish #

Polish rewrites the note, or the part you selected: Improve writing, Make shorter, Fix spelling and grammar, Simplify, More professional or Friendlier. The change is shown word by word, and nothing is replaced until you accept it.

Folders #

• New folder at the foot of the tree makes one at the top level. A folder's ⋯ holds New note, Rename, Add icon…, Move to…, Share publicly… and Delete; on a computer the + beside it starts a note in it. A note's ⋯ holds Open, Rename, Add icon…, Move to… and Delete.
• Drag a note onto a folder to move it there, or onto the heading over the tree to take it to the top level. A folder can be dragged only to the top; to put one inside another, use Move to…. Hold a folded folder under a dragged row and it springs open.
• The sort button beside the heading orders the tree: Recently edited, A to Z or In the order set. In the order set, drag a note between two others to put it there.
• The chevron beside a folder opens and closes it.
• Deleting a folder moves what was in it up a level; nothing inside is deleted.

Finding a note #

The magnifier at the right end of the note's bar (on a phone, at the top right of the screen) opens a search field. The tree narrows to the notes whose title or text match, with the folders on the way to them opened.

Sharing #

• The share button at the right of a note's bar, a lock and Private or a globe and Shared, offers Anyone with the link, a read-only public link, or Only me again, after asking, since the link then stops working. Copy link is there either way: the public link once there is one, the note's own address until then.
• To share a folder, pick Share publicly… from its ⋯. It says first how many notes it would publish, and once shared the link is on your clipboard; the same menu then has Copy public link and Stop sharing. The link reaches every note in the folder and in the folders inside it, and anything added later, whatever each note's own setting.
• A note that a shared folder's link reaches says Shared on its share button, and the menu names the folder. On a computer that folder carries a Shared tag in the path over the note.
• Anything a link reaches has a dot in your accent color at the end of its row: a note with its own link, a shared folder, and every note and folder inside one. Point at it and it says Shared note or Shared folder. The heading over the tree is a menu: All notes, Shared (what a link reaches, with the folders on the way to it) or Private (the rest).
• Someone with the link sees the note on a page of its own, in your workspace's accent color, with Read it as Markdown (Read it as plain text for a Text note) at the foot. A long note starts with its contents. A folder's link shows every note in it on one page. Nothing else about your workspace is on the page: not its name, not who shared it.

On a phone #

The tree is in the drawer: open it with ☰ or a swipe in from the left edge, and pull it down to refresh it. With no note open, the screen says Choose a note, with New note in the corner. Pick a note and it fills the screen, with ‹ to go back; tap a folder over its text to go back with that folder unfolded in the tree. See Getting around.