1. Right click a note in the list and choose {{openInNewTab}}. Middle-clicking the note does the same thing.
2. Or click the {{newTab}} button in the editor's top bar to open an empty tab, then start writing.

You can also drag a note from the list onto the tab strip to open it in a new tab, or drop it onto an existing tab to open it in that tab. Double-clicking the empty part of the tab strip opens a new tab.

In the desktop app there are keyboard shortcuts for all of this:

In the web app the browser owns most of those combinations, so only tab switching is bound: Ctrl+Alt+→ for the next tab and Ctrl+Alt+← for the previous one. On macOS use Command wherever the table says Ctrl.

Right click any tab for its menu:

• {{save}} — only shown when that tab has unsaved changes
• {{close}}
• {{closeOthers}}
• {{closeToRight}}
• {{closeToLeft}}
• {{closeAll}}
• {{revealInList}} — scrolls the notes list to the note in this tab, and highlights it
• {{pin}}

::: info Pinned tabs survive every "close" command {{closeOthers}}, {{closeToRight}}, {{closeToLeft}} and {{closeAll}} all skip pinned tabs. {{revealInList}} is unavailable while focus mode is on, because the notes list is hidden.

Right click the tab and choose {{pin}}. Click the pin icon on the tab to unpin it again.

Use the back and forward arrows to the left of the tab strip. They're greyed out when there is nothing to go back or forward to.

Three panes can open to the right of the editor:

• Table of contents — click the table-of-contents button in the top bar. It lists every heading in the note as a tree; click a heading to scroll to it, and use the chevrons to collapse a branch. If the note has no headings it says {{noHeadingsFound}}.
• Properties — click the {{properties}} button in the top bar for tags, notebooks, colors, reminders, attachments, {{noteHistory}} and note settings.
• PDF preview — opens by itself when you preview a PDF attachment in the note, so you can read the PDF and write at the same time. See reading a PDF for the pane's own toolbar.

Drag the divider between two panes to resize them; the widths are remembered for next time. The table of contents and the properties pane share the same space, so opening one closes the other.

Click the sunglasses in the status bar at the bottom of the window. The side menu and the notes list disappear and only the editor is left. Click the glasses again to bring them back.

While focus mode is on, a second button appears next to it: {{enterFullScreen}}. That one hands the whole screen to Notesnook; {{exitFullScreen}} or the Esc key returns you to the window.

The status bar at the bottom of the window holds both controls:

• {{enableEditorMargins}} / {{disableEditorMargins}} — switch between a comfortable centered column and using the full width of the pane.
• The − and + buttons zoom the editor text between 30% and 500% in steps of 10%. Click the percentage itself to reset it to 100%.

The status bar always shows the total word count for the note, plus a count of the words in your selection when you have text selected.

Click that word count to open the full statistics popup:

• {{words}}
• {{characters}}
• {{paragraphs}}
• {{spaces}}

Each one shows the total, and how many are inside your current selection.

::: warning Very long notes stop saving automatically Above 100,000 words the status bar shows {{autoSaveOff}}. From then on the note is saved only when you ask it to — press Ctrl+S, or click the save indicator at the right of the status bar ({{clickToSave}}). The same indicator tells you whether the current note is saved. Even when autosave is off, notes are still saved when you switch away from the current editor tab.