Basics

01 - The Data Directory The data directory is where all your notes and attachments will be stored, it has the following structure: /path/to/your/data_directory ├─┬ attachments │ ├── foo.ext │ ├── bar.ext │ └── … └─┬ notes ├── foo.md ├── bar.md └── … Features The data directory gives you freedom since your notes are never locked into some sort of proprietary database, all your files use sane formats and are easily accessible and portable.

02 - The Sidebar The sidebar is where all your notes are categorized. Categories All Notes: This section contains all notes. Favorites: This section contains all notes you’ve favorited. Notebooks: This section contains all notes tagged with the special Notebooks/* tag. Tags: This section contains all notes tagged with any tag except the special ones: Notebooks/* and Templates/*. Templates: This section contains all notes tagged with the special Templates/* tag.

03 - The Middlebar The middlebar shows you all notes contained in the currently active category, properly ordered and filtered by the search query. Search To search just type something in the search bar. The title of notes is searched in fuzzily, which basically means that you can omit some characters from the query: if for instance there’s a note titled “Notable” you can also find it by typing “Noab” or “Notae”, as long as the characters are in the right order the note will be found.

04 - The Mainbar The mainbar is where you can preview and edit the currently active note. Toolbar The toolbar contains buttons for triggering actions to the current note, all of them are also accessible via shortcuts. Preview/Editor/Multi-Editor Right below the toolbar there’s the preview/editor/multi-editor area. Preview Rendered notes are displayed here. Editor When editing you’ll use Monaco Editor, the same editor VS Code uses, which comes with features like multi-cursor built-in.

05 - Notes Syntax Notes are written in GitHub-flavored Markdown, so you can write emojis (😂 -> 😂), strikethrough text etc. in a familiar fashion. This also means that your notes aren’t locked into any proprietary format. Notes can have some metadata: if they are favorited or not, which tags they have, which attachments they have, etc. These metadata are written as Markdown front matter. This is taken care of for you.

06 - Tags Notes can have multiple tags, which are useful for better categorization. Syntax Root: Root tags don’t contain any forward slash (/). If there are any notebooks or templates defined they will be rendered inside the special Tags section in the sidebar, otherwise the Tags parent section will be omitted. Nested: Tags can also be nested, indefinitely, just write them like a path, separating the levels with a forward slash: foo/bar/baz.