Views and trash

Below 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.

The sidebar views

My notebooks: The notebook management page — a shelf with every notebook. See the "Notebooks" page.
Notes: The main list, with every active note in the current scope. It's the default view, alongside the editor.
Favorites: Shows only the notes marked with a star. It brings together in one place the notes you consult often, regardless of notebooks or tags.
Graph: Draws your notes as a map of connections, based on the links between them. Details on the "Notes graph" page.
Table: Shows the notes as a spreadsheet-like table, with sortable columns for title, tags and dates.
Templates: The gallery of note templates, for starting new notes from a ready-made structure. Details on the "Templates" page.
Files: Instead of notes, it lists the files and images attached to your notes. It's the way to find an attachment when you remember the file but not which note it came from.
Trash: Gathers the notes that have been deleted. They remain recoverable from here until they are permanently deleted.

Every view respects the notebook selector: with a notebook selected, favorites, graph, table, files and trash show only that notebook's content.

Tag pages are views too — one per tag, listing the notes that carry it — but they are opened by typing "#" in the search box or clicking a tag, not from the sidebar. See the "Tags" page.

The list loads in stages

The list shows the first notes right away and completes the rest in the background — meanwhile the status bar reads "Loading notes…". As you scroll, further pages are fetched automatically; you never click a "load more" button.

Favoriting a note

Marking a note as a favorite is the fastest way to keep it within reach: it starts appearing in the Favorites view, regardless of which notebook it's in.

1Open or locate the note you want to favorite.
2Mark the note with the star — it turns filled and golden.
3The note starts appearing in the Favorites view of the sidebar.
4To undo, just remove the star; the note leaves the Favorites view but stays intact in its notebook.

The Table view

The Table view lays the notes out as rows with columns for the title, the tags and the creation and edit dates (shown in your regional short format). Click a column header to sort by it; click again to invert the direction. You can also filter by tag and search within the table, and clicking a row opens the note.

The Files view

What it shows

The Files view brings together all the attachments from your notes in one place — images, documents, and other files — without you having to open note by note to find them.

Filter, sort, and preview

Filter by type: Restrict the list to images, documents, or other file types to find what you're looking for faster.
Search and sort: Search the files by name and organize them by source note, name, date, or size.
Preview: See a preview of the file right in the view — with zoom, copy, and download — without having to open it separately.
Select and delete: Mark several files at once and delete them in bulk.
Go to the note: Use the "go to the note" button to open the note the file belongs to.

Images have their own flow within Notes, with recompression and a dedicated editor. See the "Inserting images" and "Image editor" pages.

The trash

Delete, restore, and empty

When you delete a note, it doesn't disappear right away: it goes to the trash and stays recoverable. The Trash view is a read-only reader — a list on the left, the note's content on the right — so you can check what a note says before deciding its fate.

1Open the Trash view in the sidebar; the first note is previewed automatically.
2Click a note in the list to read it.
3To recover it, use "Restore": the note returns to its source notebook.
4To delete it for good, use "Delete permanently" — an irreversible action.
5To clear everything at once, use "Empty trash" at the top of the list.

The trash empties itself: after a note stays in the trash for 30 days, it is deleted automatically. Notes in the trash also don't show up in search results.

Sorting and selecting within views

Views define the set that is shown, but the way you organize and act on the list is handled separately and applies in any of them.

To change the order and grouping of the list, see "Sort and group". To mark several notes and act on them at once, see "Selection and bulk actions".