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Organizing notes with notebooks

Notebooks are a quick and easy way for nested organization of notes.

In Notesnook, one note can belong to multiple notebooks. This allows for very flexible organization structures. For example, an author can "link" the character list to all the chapters instead of duplicating it for each chapter. Similarly, a user can link common notes between multiple notebooks without any duplication.

Free accounts can keep up to 50 notebooks. Essential raises the cap to 500, and Pro and Believer are unlimited — see Plans & limits.

Creating a notebook

  1. Click the Notebook icon at the top of the side menu.
  2. Click the + button on top right corner of the side menu.
  3. Add a title for your notebook, and optionally, a description.
  4. Click the {{create}} button
  5. You have created your first notebook in Notesnook

::: info You can create notebooks inside other notebooks. Open any notebook's properties and click {{addNotebook}}.

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Editing a notebook

  1. Click the Notebook icon at the top of the side menu.
  2. Right click the Notebook you want to edit and select "Edit" from dropdown.
  3. Edit your notebook.
  4. Click {{save}} button to save the changes.

Creating a new note in a notebook

  1. Go to the notebooks section by clicking on the notebook icon, and open a notebook
  2. Click the button at the top right of the notebook.
  3. Start writing in editor to create a note in the notebook

::: info Once a note is added to a notebook, you will see its path on the bottom of the note in the list. Clicking on it will take you to the respective notebook. Tags are always displayed first.

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Linking an existing note to a notebook

  1. Right click a note
  2. Click {{notebooks}} > {{linkNotebooks}}
  3. Select the notebook you want to link the note to (you can select multiple)
  4. Click {{done}} to save your changes.

::: info In Notesnook a single note can exist in multiple Notebooks. However, a note will show only one reference on top.

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Linking multiple notes to a notebook

  1. Hold Ctrl key and click on all the notes you want to link
  2. Right click selected notes
  3. Click {{notebooks}} > {{linkNotebooks}}
  4. Select the notebook you want to link the note to (you can select multiple)
  5. Click {{done}} to save your changes.

Remove note from a notebook

  1. Right click a note
  2. Click {{notebooks}} in the context menu
  3. Click the notebook you want to remove the note from

::: warning You can only add or remove a note from a notebook. Attempting to do both at the same time will not work, and the note will not be removed from any notebook. :::

Set a default notebook <PlanTag plan="pro" />

Every new note you create outside a notebook is added to your default notebook automatically, so quick notes don't pile up in an unsorted list. Only one notebook can be the default at a time.

  1. Go to the notebooks section by clicking on the notebook icon.
  2. Right click the notebook.
  3. Click {{setAsDefault}}.

A checkmark appears next to {{setAsDefault}} for the notebook that is currently the default. Click it again to clear the default.

Setting a default notebook requires a Pro plan. See Plans & limits.

Move a notebook to top

A notebook nested inside another notebook can be pulled back out to the top level of the notebooks list.

  1. Open the parent notebook so the nested notebook is visible.
  2. Right click the nested notebook.
  3. Click {{moveToTop}}.

The notebook is unlinked from its parent and appears at the root of the notebooks list. The action is hidden for notebooks that are already at the root.

Move a notebook to trash

  1. Go to the notebooks section by clicking on the notebook icon.
  2. Right click the notebook
  3. Click {{moveToTrash}}.
  4. Select whether you also want to move the notes inside this notebook to the trash.