Notes

A note is text, written in Markdown and rendered as you would expect. It is the plainest of the four kinds and the one everything else borrows from.

Writing one

The editor is a plain text box — no toolbar, no hidden formatting, nothing that turns your quotes into different quotes. What you type is what is stored, and what is stored is what an export gives you back. The Markdown page says what the text can do; the short version is headings, lists, tables, links, pictures, task boxes you can tick, and diagrams.

Adding one line without opening the editor

Every note has a Quick Add box that puts a line at the top or the bottom and saves. It exists because most additions to a note are one sentence, and opening a whole editor to write one sentence is how a note stops being somewhere you write things down.

Ticking a box without editing

A - [ ] thing line renders as a real checkbox, and clicking it ticks it in the text. A bare [ ] thing on its own line becomes one too, so a list you typed in a hurry still works. The count of what is left shows on the note.

Pictures and files

Drag a file onto the editor, or paste one. It is stored privately and served through the application, which checks who you are first — a file in a note you cannot open is not reachable, and is not listed. Text is read out of PDFs and, if the workspace has it turned on, recognised in photographs, so search finds what is inside them.

History

Every save keeps a version. You can read an older one, compare it with another, and put it back. Nothing is overwritten silently, and if somebody else has changed the note while you were editing, the two versions are merged rather than one being dropped.

Turning it into something else

A note can become a checklist, a map or a board, and any of those can become a note. The text is what travels: an indented list is a tree whichever way you look at it.