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Create and edit notes

This 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.

Create a note

The most direct way to start is the "New note" button, in the top bar of the screen. It opens a blank draft in a new editor tab, with the cursor already in the title, so you can start typing right away.

  1. 1Click the "New note" button, in the top bar.
  2. 2A draft tab opens in the editor, with the cursor in the title field.
  3. 3Type the note's title and press Enter (or the down arrow) to move to the body.
  4. 4Start writing — the note is actually created as soon as you type something, after a brief pause.
Create a new note (works even while editing another one)Ctrl/Cmd + Shift + N
If you leave the title blank, the note is titled from the beginning of what you wrote (or from the title format set in Settings). With the "Required title" setting on, the note is only saved after you enter a title — the message "Enter a title to save the note." reminds you.
You can also create a new note while linking: typing [[ opens the link picker, where "New note" creates a note that doesn't exist yet. See the "Links between notes" page.

Where the note is created

The note is born in the notebook selected in the notebook selector at the top of the sidebar. With "All notebooks" or "Inbox" active, it goes to the Inbox (notes without a notebook); inside a specific notebook, it's born there. If you're viewing a tag, the new note already receives that tag. In a notebook locked by the Vault, the new note is born encrypted.

Wrong place? No problem — use "Move to notebook" at any time. See the "Notebooks" page.

Edit a note

To edit an existing note, click it in the list. It opens in the active editor tab, and you write as usual. Content is written in blocks: each paragraph, heading, list, or special item is an independent block you can reorder, transform, and combine.

Editor tabs

  • Each note opens in the active tab — clicking another note in the list swaps the note in that tab, without piling up tabs.
  • The "New tab" button (+) opens a blank draft in a tab of its own.
  • Drag a tab to reorder it; use "Close tab" (the ×) to close it.

Navigation history

The Back and Forward arrows in the editor's top bar walk through the notes you visited, like in a browser. "Find current note in list" scrolls the list to the open note.

Back / forward in the visited-notes historyCtrl/Cmd + [ and ]

Automatic saving

There's no save button: everything is saved automatically as you write. The indicator in the status bar switches between "Editing…", "Saving…" and "Saved" — click it to see the current sync state. If the connection drops, recent edits are kept on this device and sync when you're back online.

Undo and redo

Made a mistake or deleted something by accident? Use the undo and redo shortcuts (or the arrows in the editor toolbar) to step back and forward through your changes within the note.

Undo the last changeCtrl/Cmd + Z
Redo the undone changeCtrl/Cmd + Shift + Z

Find and replace

Within an open note, you can search for a snippet and, if you want, swap it for another — one occurrence or all at once. A counter shows which occurrence you're on (for example 2/7).

  1. 1With the note open in the editor, press Ctrl/Cmd + F to open "Search in note".
  2. 2Type the term; occurrences are highlighted in the text and counted next to the field.
  3. 3Use Enter (or the arrows) to go to the next occurrence and Shift + Enter to go back.
  4. 4To swap text, open the replace row ("Show replace", the arrow to the left of the field), type the new text in "Replace with…" and choose "Replace" or "Replace all".
  5. 5Press Esc to close search when you're done.
Open search within the noteCtrl/Cmd + F
Go to the next occurrenceEnter
Go back to the previous occurrenceShift + Enter
Close searchEsc
Search accepts line breaks and tabs: use \n for a line break and \t for a tab, both in what you search for and what you replace with.

Delete a note

When you delete a note, it doesn't disappear right away: it goes to the Trash and can be restored. After a note stays in Trash for 30 days, it is deleted automatically — and "Empty trash" removes everything at once. Details are on the "Views and trash" page.

To delete or move many notes at once, select several in the list (Shift/Ctrl click). See the "Selection and bulk actions" page.
A note's content is written in blocks. To learn what you can put inside — styles, headings, lists, and items such as callouts, tabs, and code — see the "Text formatting" and "Special blocks" pages.