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.
A note can also declare its tags as a property, the way Obsidian does:
---
tags:
- research
- ai
---Both count. A tag written either way appears in the tag list, filters the note list, and nests the same. Front-matter tags used to be ignored entirely — if your vault declares tags this way, they are visible now where they were not before.
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 that, every tag in the collection is listed with how many notes carry it, most-used first — a count of 1 means following it leads back here — and the field above filters the list. Selecting a tag filters the note list. On iPhone and iPad the same list is the Tags tab.
What accepted suggestions write
Suggest Tags, Suggest Links and Summarize all write to the note’s properties, never into your text:
- a tag is added to
tags: - a link is added to
related:as"[[Note]]"— still a real link, so it appears in backlinks and the graph - a summary is saved to
summary:
Each is visible in the inspector’s Properties tab and can be removed there. Earlier versions appended tags after your last paragraph, added links under a## Related heading the app created, and pushed summaries in above your first line — edits to your prose that you then had to undo by hand.
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.