notesnook/docs/locking-notes.md

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label: Locking notes
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All your notes are encrypted and private by default. We can not read them even if we want to on our servers. However you can still add an extra layer of security and encrypt your most important and sensitive notes by adding them to a vault. 

## Creating a vault
||| Desktop/Web
1. Go to Settings from Sidebar.
2. Click on `Create a vault` in `Vault` section.
3. Enter the password for the vault in dialog.
4. Click on create to create the vault.
5. Now you will be able to lock your notes with the password for vault.
||| Mobile/Tablet
1. Go to Settings from Sidebar
2. Scroll down to `Privacy and Security` section
3. Press on `Create vault`
4. Enter password for the vault and reenter to confirm.
5. Press on `Create` button to create the vault.
6. Now you will be able to lock your notes with the password for vault.
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## Locking a note
||| Desktop/Web
1. Right click on any note
2. Select `Lock` from the `Note properties` menu
3. Enter the password for the vault in dialog.
4. Click on Lock to lock the note.
||| Mobile/Tablet
1. Press on the `three-dot menu` button 
2. Press on `Add to vault` button in `Note properties` menu
3. Enter password for the vault
4. Press on `Lock` to add note to vault.
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## Open/Edit/Delete a locked note
To open, edit or delete a locked note, you must provide the password for the vault to unlock it.

## Unlocking note permanently
||| Desktop/Web
1. Right click on any note
2. Select `Unlock` from the `Note properties` menu
3. Enter the password for the vault in dialog.
4. Click on Unlock to remove note from vault
||| Mobile/Tablet
1. Press on the `three-dot menu` button 
2. Press on `Remove from vault` button in `Note properties` menu
3. Enter password for the vault
4. Press on `Unlock` to  remove note from vault.

## Changing vault password
||| Desktop/Web
1. Go to Settings from Sidebar.
2. Click on `Change vault password` in `Vault` section.
3. Enter the old and new password for the vault in dialog.
4. Click on Change to update password
5. All your locked notes will be encrypted with the new password.
||| Mobile/Tablet
1. Go to Settings from Sidebar.
2. Scroll down to `Privacy and Security` section
3. Press on `Change vault password`
4. Click on Change to update password
5. All your locked notes will be encrypted with the new password.
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