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title: Notebooks
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# Organizing notes with notebooks

Notebooks are a quick and easy way for nested organization of notes.

In Notesnook, one note can belong to multiple notebooks. This allows for very flexible organization structures. For example, an author can "link" the character list to all the chapters instead of duplicating it for each chapter. Similarly, a user can link common notes between multiple notebooks without any duplication.

## Creating a notebook

# [Desktop/Web](#/tab/web)

1. Click on the Notebook icon at the top of the side menu.
2. Click on the `+` button on top right corner of the side menu.
3. Add a title for your notebook, and optionally, a description.
4. Click on the `Create` button
5. You have created your first notebook in Notesnook

# [Mobile](#/tab/mobile)

1. Tap on the Notebook icon at the bottom of the side menu.
2. Press the `+` button on the bottom right corner
3. Add a title for your notebook, and optionally, a description.
4. Press the `Add` button.
5. You have created your first notebook in Notesnook.

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> info
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> Starting from v3, you can create new Notebooks inside existing notebooks. Simply go to any notebook's properties and click on "Add notebook".

## Editing a notebook

# [Desktop/Web](#/tab/web)

1. Click on the Notebook icon at the top of the side menu.
2. Right click on the Notebook you want to edit and select "Edit" from dropdown.
3. Edit your notebook.
4. Click on `Save` button to save the changes.

# [Mobile](#/tab/mobile)

1. Tap on the Notebook icon at the bottom of the side menu.
2. Hold down on the notebook you wish to edit.
3. Press on `Edit notebook`
4. Edit your notebook
5. Press `Save` button to save changes

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## Creating a new note in a notebook

# [Desktop/Web](#/tab/web)

1. Go to the notebooks section by clicking on the notebook icon, and open a notebook
2. Click on the ![Three dot button](/plus-button-desktop.png) button on the top left corner of the note editor.
3. Start writing in editor to create a note in the notebook

# [Mobile](#/tab/mobile)

1. Go to the notebooks section by tapping on the notebook icon, and open a notebook
2. Tap on the ![Three dot button](/plus-button-desktop.png) button on bottom right corner to open the editor or just **swipe from right to left** to open editor
3. Start writing in editor to create a note in the notebook

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> info
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> Once a note is added to a notebook, you will see its path on the bottom of the note in the list. Clicking on it will take you to the respective notebook. Tags are always displayed first.
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> ![Notebook reference on a note](/notebook-ref.png)

## Linking an existing note to a notebook

# [Desktop/Web](#/tab/web)

1. Right click on a note
2. Click on `Notebooks` > `Link to...`
3. Select the notebook you want to link the note to (you can select multiple)
4. Click `Done` to save your changes.

# [Mobile](#/tab/mobile)

1. Tap the ![Three dot button](/three-dot-button.png) button
2. Tap on `Add to notebook` button.
3. Select the notebook you want to link the note to (you can select multiple)
4. Tap the checkmark button in the bottom right to save your changes.

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> info
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> In Notesnook a single note can exist in multiple Notebooks. However, a note will show only one reference on top.

## Linking multiple notes to a notebook

# [Desktop/Web](#/tab/web)

1. Hold `Ctrl` key and click on all the notes you want to link
2. Right click on selected notes
3. Click on `Notebooks` > `Link to...`
4. Select the notebook you want to link the note to (you can select multiple)
5. Click `Done` to save your changes.

# [Mobile](#/tab/mobile)

1. Long press on a note to enter multi selection mode.
2. Tap on all the notes you want to link to select them
3. Tap the `+` button in top header
4. Select the notebook you want to link the note to (you can select multiple)
5. Tap the `Save` button at the top right corner to save your changes.

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## Remove note from a notebook

# [Desktop/Web](#/tab/web)

1. Right click on a note
2. Click on `Notebooks` in the context menu
3. Click on the notebook you want to remove the note from

# [Mobile](#/tab/mobile)

1. Press the ![Three dot button](/three-dot-button.png) button
2. Tap on `Add to notebook`.
3. Unselect the notebooks you wish to remove this note from, and press the checkmark in the bottom right corner.

> warn You can only add or remove a note from a notebook.
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> Attempting to do both at the same time will not work, and the note will not be removed from _any_ notebook.

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## Move a notebook to trash

# [Desktop/Web](#/tab/web)

1. Go to the notebooks section by clicking on the notebook icon.
2. Right click on the notebook
3. Click on `Move to trash`.
4. Select whether you also want to move the notes inside this notebook to the trash.

# [Mobile](#/tab/mobile)

1. Go to the notebooks section by tapping on the notebook icon.
2. Hold down on the notebook.
3. Press `Move to trash` to delete the notebook.
4. Select whether you also want to move the notes inside this notebook to the trash.

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