Collections and libraries
A collection is one folder of notes. You can have several open at once — work, personal, a project — and the set of open collections is a library you can save and reopen from the launcher. Recently opened folders are remembered there too.
Each collection keeps its own folder tree, tags and bookmarks. Search spans all of them.
Search
The search field above the note list searches titles first (instantly, from the index) and then note contents, showing a snippet of the matching text. Results are grouped by collection, and matching attachments such as PDFs appear alongside notes.
Open Quickly
⇧⌘O opens a fuzzy finder over note titles, aliases and headings. Type a few letters, press ↩. It is the fastest way to move around a large collection without touching the mouse.
Tags
Write #tag anywhere in a note. Typing # offers autocomplete from tags already in the collection, which keeps them consistent.
Tags nest with slashes — #project/website, #project/app. They live in the inspector’s Tags tab, which opens on this note’s tags as chips, because the usual reason to look at a tag is to find what else shares it. Below them, a search field finds any tag in the collection and shows how many notes carry it — a count of 1 means following it leads back here. Selecting a tag filters the note list.
Bookmarks
⇧⌘D bookmarks the current note; bookmarks appear on the Library place for one-click access. They are stored per collection, so each project keeps its own shortlist, and the Library place shows them across every open collection at once.
Daily notes
Today’s Note on the Library place opens (or creates) a note for today. Configure in Settings ▸ General:
- Folder — where daily notes live; blank means the collection root.
- Date format — date tokens such as
yyyy-MM-dd. The settings pane shows a worked example of today’s filename as you type.
You can also capture into today’s note without opening the app at all — see the menu-bar item and global hotkey in Keyboard shortcuts.
Templates
Put Markdown files in your templates folder (Settings ▸ General, default Templates) and insert one into the current note from the toolbar. Templates expand date and title tokens as they are inserted:
| Token | Becomes |
|---|---|
{{date}} | Today’s date |
{{time}} | The current time |
{{title}} | The note’s title |
Folders, moving and attachments
- Create folders in the tree and drag notes between them — the files really move on disk.
- Renaming a note rewrites links to it across the collection.
- Deleting moves the file to the Trash; it is never a hard delete.
- Non-Markdown files show in the tree and open in a native viewer (PDFKit / Quick Look), so a collection can hold its own reference material.