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Selection and bulk actions

When 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.

Selecting multiple notes

The selection is built by clicking combined with modifier keys, right in the notes list. You can pick individual notes, a continuous range, or all of them at once.

Toggles a note in the selection (adds it if it's out, removes it if it's already in).Ctrl/Cmd + click
Selects the continuous range between the last clicked note and the note clicked now.Shift + click
Selects every note in the current scope.Ctrl/Cmd + A
Deletes the current selection, after confirmation (outside the Trash).Delete / Backspace

Selecting beyond what is loaded

The notes list is paginated: not all notes are visible on screen at the same time. This changes what "all" means when you use the select-all shortcut.

When you use Ctrl/Cmd+A, the app does not limit itself to the visible notes: it fetches from the server and selects ALL notes in the current scope — the view, notebook, or tag that is open at the moment. That way the bulk action reaches the entire set, not just the loaded page.

The selection bar

With notes selected, a bar appears at the bottom of the list showing how many are selected ("{count} selected") next to the two bulk actions, as icon buttons.

Move to notebook
Opens the notebook picker; all selected notes move there in a single step.
Delete
Sends the entire selection to the Trash — always after a confirmation dialog ("Move {count} notes to the trash?").

From the context menu

The context menu also operates on the entire selection: right-clicking a note that is part of a multi-note selection opens a menu whose actions apply to all of them.

  • "Move {count} notes…" sends the whole selection to a notebook of your choice.
  • "Delete {count} notes" sends the whole selection to the Trash, with confirmation.
  • "Select all" builds the selection for the whole current scope without using the keyboard — it also appears in the context menu of a single note.
  • "Clear" empties the selection.

Good to know

  • Bulk deletion does not erase notes forever: the selection goes to the Trash, from where it can be recovered.
  • Switching to another view, notebook or tag clears the selection — you never act by accident on notes that left the list.
  • A normal click (no modifier) opens the note and sets the anchor for the next Shift+click range.
The Delete and Backspace keys delete the current selection (with the same confirmation), so be careful when pressing them while several notes are marked.