Notes Overview

What It Is

Notes is your daily capture and thinking tool — a fast, keyboard-driven outliner that organizes your thoughts by date and lets you nest ideas as deep as you need.

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Why It Matters

Most productivity systems lose the small stuff: the quick thought during a meeting, the idea you had on a walk, the thing you need to remember next Tuesday. Notes gives you a single place to capture everything, organized by date, so nothing falls through the cracks. Over time, your notes become a searchable journal of your thinking.

Key Concepts

• Date Buckets — Every note belongs to a specific date. Today's notes live under today's date. You can also capture notes for future dates (a built-in tickler system).
• Nested Hierarchy — Notes can be indented up to 3 levels deep. Use nesting to group related thoughts, break down ideas, or add detail under a top-level note.
• View Modes — Switch between Day, Week, Month, and Year views. Day shows a single date's full outliner. Week and Month show multiple dates grouped into collapsible sections.
• Bullet Journal Templates — One-click daily templates with pre-filled categories (Gratitude, Goals, Tasks, etc.) to give your day structure.
• Optimistic Saving — Every change saves automatically. No save button, no lost work.

What You Can Do

Capture

• Type in the input field at the top and press Enter to create a new note.
• Press Enter inside any note to create a new one directly below it.
• Place your cursor in the middle of a note and press Enter to split it into two notes.
• Click the wand icon to generate a bullet journal template for today.

Organize

• Press Tab to indent a note (make it a child of the note above).
• Press Shift+Tab to outdent a note (move it back up a level).
• Drag and drop notes by their bullet to reorder. Parent notes move with all their children.
• Use Cmd/Ctrl+Click or Shift+Click to select multiple notes for bulk actions.

Navigate

• Use the arrow buttons or breadcrumb trail to move between dates.
• Click the calendar icon to jump to any date — dots show which dates have notes.
• Click Today to snap back to the current date.
• Use Arrow Up/Down keys to move between notes without touching the mouse.

Edit & Delete

• Click any note to edit it inline. Changes save automatically when you move on.
• Press Backspace on an empty note to delete it.
• Select multiple notes and press Delete to remove them all at once.

Tips & Shortcuts

Pro tip: Use future date buckets as a tickler file. Capture a note under next Monday's date and it'll be waiting for you when you get there.

Pro tip: On mobile, a floating toolbar appears when you tap into a note — use it for indent, outdent, add, and delete without needing a keyboard.

Related Features

• Tasks — Capture action items in Notes, then create formal tasks when they're ready to be tracked.
• Goals & Projects — Use Notes to brainstorm project ideas or reflect on quarterly goals.
• Resources — Save important notes as resources for long-term reference.
• Home Dashboard — The Notes widget on your home screen gives you quick capture without leaving the dashboard.