Notes
Create and manage notes
Capture ideas, add images, and organise your notes with markdown formatting, tags, and lists.
Creating a note
On mobile
- Open the Notes tab and tap New note (the + button, bottom right). A blank note opens straight away.
- Enter a title and start writing.
- Tap Finish when you're done, or just go back. Your note saves automatically.
On the web
- Open Notes and select New note in the bottom-right corner, or press C. From any page, you can also select Create in the sidebar, then New note.
- The note opens in a panel on the right, ready to type in. Enter a title and start writing.
- Select Done when you've finished, or close the panel. Your note saves automatically.
You can also create notes directly from within a list, and in the mobile app from the Android home screen widget.
Writing with markdown
Notes support markdown formatting, so you can add structure and emphasis to your writing.
On mobile
New notes open in edit mode, where you see the raw markdown. To edit a note you are viewing, tap the Edit button (the pencil, bottom right). To go back to the formatted view, tap Finish in the toolbar at the bottom.
On the web
New notes open ready for editing. As you type, the editor styles your markdown and keeps its syntax marks visible in a quieter colour. To edit a note you're reading, select Edit (the pencil at the top of the note) or press E. To go back to the formatted view, select Done.
While you're editing, a toolbar sits on the right-hand side of the note. Select Formatting, its top button, to show Bold, Italic, Heading, Bulleted list and Checklist, with More formatting for Strikethrough and Link. Selecting Heading again makes the heading smaller, down to the third size, and then plain text again.
Common markdown you can use:
**bold**for bold text*italic*for italic text# Headingfor headings- itemfor bullet lists1. itemfor numbered lists
Checklists
On mobile
This is only in the web app.
On the web
While you're editing a note, select Formatting, then Checklist, to start a checklist, or begin a line with - [ ]. When you read the note, each item shows a checkbox: select it to tick the item off, and select it again to untick it. Each tick saves straight away.
Adding images
On mobile
Once you've started writing a note, tap the photo icon in the toolbar at the bottom, then choose Take a photo or Choose existing photos. You can add multiple images, each under 10 MB. Images appear as thumbnails in the note and are displayed in full when tapped.
On the web
While you're editing a note, select Add photos in the toolbar on the right. Your computer's file picker opens, where you can choose several photos at once, each under 10 MB. The photos appear under the note's title: select one to see it larger, and use the ← and → keys to move between photos. To remove a photo, select its Delete image button while you're editing.
Free users can upload up to 100 MB of photos in total. With PRO you get 250 MB of photo uploads every month, and the allowance resets each month.
Adding a location
On mobile
While you're editing a note, tap the location icon in the toolbar at the bottom to tag your note with a place. The location is displayed with an address and a map preview on the note, which is helpful for travel notes, meeting notes, or anything tied to a specific spot.
On the web
While you're editing a note, select Add location in the toolbar on the right, then search for a place and select it. To change or remove it later, select Change location, which also offers Clear location. When you read the note, its address and a map preview show at the bottom: select Open in Maps to see the place in Google Maps, in a new tab.
Location tagging is a PRO feature.
Auto-save
Notes are saved automatically as you type, with a short delay to avoid saving every keystroke.
On mobile
You may briefly see Saving… at the bottom of the note.
If you navigate away while editing, your changes are saved before you leave.
On the web
You may briefly see Saving… at the top of the note, then Saved. If a save fails, you see Not saved there instead: select Retry to try again.
When you select Done, close the note or go to another page, any change still waiting to be saved is saved straight away.
Browsing your notes
Open Notes to see all your notes as cards. Each card shows the note's first image (if it has one), its title (or "Untitled note" if none is set), a three-line preview of its content and its tags.
On mobile
The cards sit in a visual masonry grid, and each one also shows the note's location address, if it has one.
On the web
The cards sit in a grid with as many columns as fit the page.
Notes you pin appear under Pinned, above your other notes. For how to pin a note, see the Archive and organise notes article.
Searching and filtering
You can search your notes by title or content, filter them by list or tag, and sort them. For the steps, see the Search and filter notes article.
Archiving notes
Archive a note you want to keep but no longer need in view: it moves under the Archived filter on Notes, and it's read-only until you unarchive it. For the steps, see the Archive and organise notes article.
Assigning notes to lists
Notes can belong to a list, just like tasks, which keeps related notes and tasks together in one place. For the steps, see the Archive and organise notes article.
Deleting a note
On mobile
To delete a note, open it, tap the menu button (three dots, top right), then tap Delete and tap Delete again to confirm.
On the web
To delete a note, open it, select More options (…) at the top right and choose Delete, then select Delete again to confirm.
Deleting a note cannot be undone. Consider archiving instead if you might need the note later.
