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Notes

Notes is a block editor in the Zettelkasten style: a place to write, connect ideas to one another and organize your knowledge over time. Instead of loose documents, you build a network of notes that reference each other — and that network becomes a navigable map of what you know.

What you can do

Write notes in a rich block editor, link one note to another with a click and view everything as a graph. Organize by notebooks and tags, find anything through search (including search scoped to a single notebook), publish a note with a public link and let the app sync your work across all your devices.

The core concepts

Notes
The basic unit: each idea in its own note, short and focused. It's what you write, connect and find again later.
Notebooks
Folders to group notes by project, area or theme. A note lives in one notebook — or in the Inbox, when it has no notebook yet.
Tags
Cross-cutting markers that span notebooks — a single tag gathers notes scattered anywhere. Type "#" in the search field to see the tag list.
Links and graph
Link one note to another to build connections; the Graph shows that network visually and helps you discover relationships between ideas.
Block editor
Each paragraph, heading, list, image or callout is a block you can move, transform and style independently.

How the screen is organized

Besides the app's global elements (the dark module rail on the left and the top bar, which holds the New note button), the Notes screen has three areas, from left to right:

  • The sidebar, on the left. At its top sits the notebook selector — "All notebooks", "Inbox" or a specific notebook; the choice scopes every view and survives navigation. Below it come "My notebooks" (the management page), "Notes" (the list) and the shortcuts: Favorites, Graph, Table, Templates, Files and Trash.
  • The note list, in the middle, showing the notes in the current view. It has the search field (with Advanced search, and a tag list when you type "#"), the "Group & sort" menu and a density toggle.
  • The editor, on the right, where you read and write the selected note. Side panels can open next to it: Properties, Table of contents, Backlinks, Comments and Files.
On narrow screens (mobile), the sidebar becomes a sliding drawer and the list and editor alternate: tap a note to open it, and use the back button to return to the list.

Tabs, panes and focus mode

The editor works with tabs, like a browser: each note opens in the active tab, the "New tab" button starts a blank draft, and you can reorder tabs by dragging. If you like seeing notes side by side, the layout picker splits the editor area into up to four panes. And when you want silence, Focus mode (bottom right of the status bar) hides everything except the text.

Everything saves and syncs on its own

There's no save button: what you write is recorded automatically as you type and synced to your account. The status bar shows the current state — "Editing…", "Saving…", "Saved" — and, while the rest of a large list loads in the background, a discreet "Loading notes…" indicator. Notes open content-first, so even long notes appear quickly.

This is an overview. Each feature mentioned here — editor, notebooks, tags, links and graph, search, bulk selection, trash and much more — has its own page just below, with the full step by step.
Create and edit notesThis page covers the basic lifecycle of a note: how to create a new one, where it's born, how the editor tabs work, and how content is saved. It also shows the essential shortcuts — undo, redo, navigation history, and find and replace within the note. Text formatting and special blocks are covered on their own pages.Text formattingThis page covers the basic text formatting in Notes: inline styles (bold, italic, colors and so on), headings and paragraphs, alignment, lists and indentation, plus how pasting from other apps behaves. These are the everyday writing features. Special blocks — such as callouts, tabs, code and formulas — have their own pages.Note propertiesEvery note carries a set of properties: quick switches such as pin, favorite and read only; display preferences that decide which header elements appear; custom fields you define yourself; and automatically recorded metadata, like who created the note and when it was last edited. All of this lives in the Properties panel — a column that opens to the right of the editor. This page explains how to open the panel and what each of its sections does.Special blocksBeyond paragraphs, headings, and lists, the notes editor offers special blocks that structure content in richer ways: colored callouts to highlight passages, collapsible sections to hide details, tabs to switch between content in the same space, and a column layout to place blocks side by side. This page explains how to insert them, how to move and transform them via the block handle, and what each type does.TablesInside a note you can insert simple tables to organize content into rows and columns — a comparison grid, a list of items with a few properties, or a small schedule. This page shows how to insert a table, fill in and navigate the cells, use the table's floating toolbar to add, move, and remove rows and columns, merge and split cells, resize column widths, and color cell backgrounds. For truly structured data (with field types, filters, and calculations), use the Bases module, which has its own page.Code and formulasNotes include two kinds of blocks aimed at technical content: the code block, with syntax highlighting per language and an automatic code formatter, and mathematical formulas written in LaTeX, which appear both inline in the text ("Inline math") and highlighted on their own line ("Math block"). This page explains how to insert each one, how to pick the code language and format a snippet, and how to write and edit formulas — including the "Formula builder" with its symbol palette and formula library.Attachments and audioBesides text and images, a note can hold files from your device and audio recordings. Attached files stay available inside the note — in the text and in a compact bar under the title — and are also gathered in the Files view, which lists everything attached across your notes, searchable by file name or note. This page shows how to attach files, record audio, browse the Files view and understand what deletion does and does not remove.Insert imagesImages have their own flow inside Notes, separate from regular attachments. You can add them in three ways — by pasting, dragging, or through the "Image" option — and large images are compressed automatically on your device before upload, so they take up less space. This page covers inserting images and everything you can do with an image already in the note (resize, caption, align, view fullscreen); to crop, rotate, or adjust an image, see "Image editor".Image editorImages placed in a note come with a built-in editor for small adjustments — cropping, straightening a crooked photo of a document, converting to grayscale, fixing brightness and contrast, or lightening the background of a scan. The key point is that it is non-destructive: before the first edit is applied, the original file is backed up, and your settings are stored as an editing recipe. You can reopen the editor at any time, change or turn off any adjustment, and every new result is computed from the original again — or go back to the untouched original with one click. This page explains how to open the editor, what each tool does, and how to re-edit and revert.Links between notesLinking one note to another is what turns a pile of loose jottings into a network of ideas. Here you'll see how to create internal links between notes (the "wikilinks"), how to point a link at a specific section, and how to link to web addresses. Every internal link becomes part of the graph and of the Connections panel, so linking as you write pays off.Backlinks and mentionsEvery note carries, beyond what you wrote in it, the web of connections that ties it to the rest of your collection. The Connections panel gathers that web in one place: it shows who points to the current note, where it points to, and where its title is cited without a formal link. It's the most direct way to see the context of an idea without having to open the entire graph.EmbedsAn embed brings content from somewhere else to appear inside the note — another note, a YouTube or Vimeo video, an audio recording, a board from the Draw module, or a table from the Bases module. Instead of copying and pasting (and ending up with an outdated copy), you insert a live window: the content keeps living at its source and is shown here. This page explains what an embed is, how to insert one through the "/" menu, and what each type can do.The notes graphThe graph is a visualization of the network formed by your notes: each note becomes a point (node) and each link between notes becomes a line connecting two points. Instead of reading a list, you see from above how ideas connect — which notes are central, which are isolated, and what paths exist between one topic and another.NotebooksNotebooks are how you organize your notes into groups. They work like folders: you create a notebook for each topic, project or context and keep the related notes inside it. You switch notebooks through the selector at the top of the Notes sidebar, and manage all of them — colors, icons, lock, sharing — on the "My notebooks" page. This page shows how to select, create, customize and move notes between notebooks.TagsTags are free-form labels you assign to your notes to classify them by topic. Unlike notebooks — which say where a note lives — tags cut across your whole base: a note can sit in a single notebook and, at the same time, carry several tags. This page shows what tags are, how to apply them, how to browse them by typing "#" in the search box, and how to rename or delete a tag.SubnotesSometimes a note grows and begs to be split into parts. Subnotes are made for exactly that: a note can have child notes — chapters of the parent note — shown nested right beneath it in the list, with the option to collapse and expand the group. It's a way to keep related content together with the parent note, without having to create extra tags or notebooks just to organize.Views and trashBelow the notebook selector, the Notes sidebar offers views that change what you see: the notes list, only favorites, the graph, the table, the templates, the attached files and the trash. Each view is a different slice — or a different presentation — of the same collection, and switching views doesn't change anything about the notes. This page describes each view, how to mark a note as a favorite, and how the trash works, including restoring and permanently deleting.Sort and groupThe notes list can be rearranged to fit the way you work: choose which criterion the notes are sorted by, whether to gather them into groups (by year, month, week or letter), and how much information each item shows. Your choices are remembered and apply wherever the list appears. This page details each option and where to find them.Selection and bulk actionsWhen you need to organize many notes at once — tidying up a notebook, doing a cleanup, or moving an entire set — selecting them one by one would be slow. The notes list lets you select several notes at the same time; the selected rows are shaded, and once the selection is formed you act on all of them in a single step: move them to another notebook or delete them. The selection shortcuts follow the file-manager standard, so they are probably already familiar.SearchThere are two ways to find a note: quick search, always within reach in the list, which filters by title as you type; and advanced search, which also digs through the body text, the tags and the attachments. Both respect the selected notebook — with "All notebooks" you search your entire base. This page explains each one and the operators that refine your results.TemplatesTemplates are pre-formatted notes you reuse whenever you create similar content. myrna ships with a built-in gallery organized by category, and you can save your own notes as templates too. With automatic fields (tokens), the date, time and title are filled in at insertion time. This page covers the gallery, the "My templates" page, inserting a template into a note and the supported tokens.Version historyAs you work on a note and it gets saved, myrna keeps snapshots of the content over time. This version history works as a safety net: if you deleted an important passage, changed the structure too much, or just want to recover how the note looked yesterday, you can open the previous versions, review each one, and restore whichever you prefer. This page explains what these versions are, how to open the history, how to compare, and how to restore an earlier state.Locked notes and VaultSome notes hold things you'd rather keep to yourself. For that, myrna lets you lock an individual note or an entire notebook: the content is encrypted on your own device, so the server never sees the plain text. Locking relies on a "vault" protected by a password that only you know — its button lives in the global top bar, on every page. This page explains, from the Notes side, how to lock and unlock; creating and configuring the vault in detail lives on the "Vault and locking" page of the Security section.Import from other appsBring your existing notes from other apps without retyping. There are two importers: one for note apps (Evernote, OneNote, Obsidian, Joplin and others) and one for AI chats (ChatGPT and Claude). Everything is parsed in your browser — the exported files are read locally and only the resulting notes are saved to your account.