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Editor & markdown

Quick edits happen in focus mode (double-click a note). For real writing, press ⌘⇧E to expand into the full editor — a near-fullscreen layer with tabs, outline, backlinks, and the complete markdown toolkit. (On Windows and Linux, read ⌘ as Ctrl.)

Tabs and splits

  • ⌘O opens a note in a new tab; ⌘1–⌘9 jump between tabs; ⌘W closes.
  • Drag a tab to the right edge to split the editor — up to three columns side by side.
  • Right-click a tab to pin or close it; drag to reorder.

Power markdown

Everything renders live as you type, and round-trips cleanly to plain markdown (switch between Live / Source / Read modes from the toolbar):

  • Tables (resizable), task lists, and code blocks with syntax highlighting for ~35 languages.
  • Callouts in five variants, footnotes with an editable bibliography.
  • Highlights in five colors, plus comment marks for margin thoughts.
  • Inline and block math via KaTeX — $x^2$ and $$\int f$$.
  • Mermaid diagrams from a code fence or the toolbar; click a rendered diagram to re-edit it.
  • Type [[ for autocompleting wikilinks — with aliases ([[Note|alias]]), heading anchors ([[Note#Heading]]), and create-on-the-fly for notes that don’t exist yet.
  • Embed another note (or a section of one) in place with ![[Note]], ![[Note#Heading]], or ![[Note^block-id]]. Embeds are live — edit the source and every embed updates.

The editor’s left rail shows the outline (with scroll-spy) and backlinks — every wikilink, transclusion, and semantic edge that points at the open note. Hover any wikilink or edge for a floating preview of the target.

Typed properties

Notes carry structured fields alongside prose: text, number, date, datetime, checkbox, list-of-text, and list-of-links. Properties are first-class in search — status:active, priority:>=3, due:<2026-08-01.

Slash menu, palette, find

  • Type / for the categorized insert menu (blocks, media, templates).
  • ⌘P opens the command palette with every action in the app.
  • ⌘F find, ⌘⇧F find & replace within the note.

Media, drawings, templates

  • Attach audio (records in place), embed PDFs, or attach any file — drag and drop works for all three.
  • Insert an Excalidraw drawing with /drawing — sketches live as blocks inside the note.
  • Eight built-in templates (Meeting, Book, Project, Decision, Daily, Recipe, Research, 1:1); save any note as your own with ⌘⇧T.
  • A daily note is created automatically the first time you open a canvas each day — see Note kinds.
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