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Notes

Write longer text with real formatting, pin what matters, sort your own way, adjust width and font size, and move notes between projects.

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Notes are for the things that do not fit in a task: meeting minutes, a reading list, a decision you want to remember the reasoning for. Each note belongs to a project, the same projects your tasks use.

Write a note

Open Notes and use New note. The title is a field of its own at the top; the body underneath is a full editor.

Available formatting:

  • Bold, italic, underline and strikethrough
  • Inline code
  • Links
  • Heading 2 and heading 3 (the title field already plays the part of heading 1)
  • Bullet lists and numbered lists
  • Checklists, which you can tick inside the note
  • Quotes
  • Dividers

Everything saves as you type. There is no save button to forget.

Organising

The notes sidebar lists everything in the current project, and each note has a menu:

  • Pin keeps a note at the top of the list, and unpin puts it back in the flow
  • Move to sends it to a different project
  • Duplicate makes a copy
  • Archive takes it out of the list without deleting it
  • Delete sends it to the trash

Sorting

The list can be sorted by date modified with the newest first, by date created, by title from A to Z, or manually, which lets you drag notes into whatever order makes sense to you. Pinned notes stay above the sort.

Reading comfort

Three settings change how a note reads without changing what it says:

  • Content width: narrow, medium or full
  • Font size: small at 14px, medium at 16px, large at 18px
  • Top padding: close at 16px, medium at 40px, large at 80px

Narrow and large is a comfortable combination for long prose; full and small suits a note that is mostly a table of scraps.

Finding a note again

The notes list has its own search field for the current project. For a search that crosses projects and picks up tasks and transactions too, use the app’s global search. See Search.

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