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What can I do with a single note?

Every note has a menu of actions on it. Right click a note on desktop or web, or press the button on mobile. This page covers the actions that aren't documented elsewhere — making a note read-only, duplicating it, copying it, printing it, fixing its creation date, keeping it off sync, and seeing what links to it.

Open the note menu

  1. Right click a note in the list to open the Note properties menu.

Some of the same switches also live in the editor: open a note, then click {{properties}} in the action bar at the top right.

Open a note in a new tab

Opening a note in a new tab puts it in its own editor tab instead of replacing whatever is already open, so you can keep two notes on the go at once.

  1. Right click the note.
  2. Click {{openInNewTab}}. It is the first item in the note menu.

{{unlinkFromAll}} removes the note from every notebook it belongs to in one step, without deleting the note or the notebooks. It works on a multiple selection too.

  1. Right click the note, or select several notes and right click.
  2. Open {{notebooks}}.
  3. Click {{unlinkFromAll}}.

The action only appears when at least one of the selected notes is already in a notebook.

Remove all tags from a note

{{removeFromAll}} strips every tag off the note. The tags themselves are not deleted — they stay in your tags list and on your other notes. It works on a multiple selection too.

  1. Right click the note, or select several notes and right click.
  2. Open Tags.
  3. Click {{removeFromAll}}.

The action only appears when at least one of the selected notes already has a tag.

Make a note read-only

{{readOnly}} locks the note against editing. The content stays visible and searchable — you cannot type into it. It is a toggle: turn it off and the note becomes editable again.

  1. Right click the note.
  2. Click {{readOnly}}.

The editor's {{properties}} panel has the same {{readOnly}} switch, and it applies to any note tab that is already open.

A read-only note shows a small pencil-lock icon in the notes list.

Duplicate a note

{{duplicate}} makes a full copy of the note — title, content and formatting — as a new, separate note. Editing the copy does not touch the original.

  1. Right click the note.
  2. Click {{duplicate}}.

{{duplicate}} also works on a multiple selection: select several notes first and every one of them is copied.

{{copyLink}} copies the note's internal nn:// link to the clipboard, so you can paste it into another note and have a working note link. On desktop and web the link is copied as plain text, HTML and Markdown at the same time, so pasting into an editor produces a proper link rather than raw text.

  1. Right click the note.
  2. Click {{copyLink}}.

Either way a {{linkCopied}} toast confirms it.

Copy a note as text or Markdown

This copies the note's content to the clipboard, not a link to it — for pasting into an email, a chat, or another app.

  1. Right click the note.
  2. Open {{copyAs}}.
  3. Choose Text for plain text, or Markdown to keep headings, lists, bold and links as Markdown syntax.

A {{noteCopied}} toast confirms it.

If the note is in your private vault you'll be asked for your vault password first.

  1. Right click the note.
  2. Click {{print}}.

The note is rendered as a PDF and handed to your system print dialog, so you can send it to a printer or save it as a PDF file.

Change a note's creation date

Useful after an import, when notes arrive stamped with the day you imported them rather than the day you wrote them.

  1. Open the note.
  2. Click {{properties}} in the action bar at the top right.
  3. Next to {{createdAt}}, click the pencil icon.
  4. In the {{editCreationDate}} dialog set the {{date}} and {{time}} fields — the expected formats are shown under each field, and the calendar icon opens a day picker.
  5. Click {{save}}.

The creation date cannot be later than the note's last edited date. If you pick a later one, Notesnook refuses with {{creationDateCannotBeAfterLastEditedDate}}.

The pencil only appears on notes. Notebooks, tags and reminders show their dates read-only.

Keep a note off sync

{{syncOff}} marks a single note as local-only, independently of your global sync settings. It stays on the device you're using and stops syncing; future changes to it never leave that device.

::: warning This removes the note from your other devices Turning {{syncOff}} on for a note deletes it from every other device you're signed in on, and any changes you make to it afterwards will not sync. This is exactly what the confirmation asks you: Prevent note from syncing. Make sure the device you're keeping it on is the one you want it on, and that you have a backup.

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  1. Right click the note.
  2. Click {{syncOff}}.
  3. Confirm Prevent note from syncing with {{yes}}.

Turning it off syncs the note again from that device. The editor {{properties}} panel carries the same switch, labelled {{disableSync}}. The action only appears when you're logged in.

A local-only note shows a crossed-out sync icon in the notes list.

{{references}} lists the notes on both sides of a note link: the ones this note links out to, and the ones that link back to it.

  1. Open the note.
  2. Click {{properties}} in the action bar at the top right.
  3. Switch between {{linkedNotes}} and {{referencedIn}} at the top of the panel.

See note links for what these lists contain and how to jump to an individual paragraph.