notesnook/docs/help/contents/organizing-notes/organize-notes-using-notebooks.md

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title: Notebooks
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# Organizing notes with notebooks

Notebooks are a quick and easy way for multi-level notes organization. Starting from v2.4.7, topics are now optional in Notebooks and notes can be put directly under a notebook.

If you are coming from Evernote, you can think of Notebooks as "Evernote Stacks" & topics as "Evernote Notebooks". However, keep in mind, that there is a key difference:

> "Evernote Stacks" do not allow putting notes directly under them i.e., a Stack is just a collection of Notebooks and nothing else.

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

## Creating a notebook

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

1. Go to `Notebooks` from side menu
2. Click on the ![Three dot button](/plus-button-desktop.png) button on top right corner
3. Add title for your notebook
4. Click on `Create` button
5. You have created your first notebook in Notesnook

> info
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> Adding a description & topics are optional.

# [Mobile](#/tab/mobile)

1. Go to `Notebooks` from side menu.
2. Press the ![Three dot button](/plus-button-desktop.png) button on bottom right corner
3. Add title for your notebook.

> info
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> Adding a description & topics are optional.

4. Press the `Create notebook` button.
5. You have created your first notebook in Notesnook.

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## Editing a notebook

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

1. Go to `Notebooks` from 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. Go to `Notebooks` from side menu
2. Press the ![Three dot button](/three-dot-button.png) button on the notebook
3. Press on `Edit Notebook`
4. Edit your notebook
5. Press `Save` button to save changes

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## Create a new topic

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

1. Go to `Notebooks` and open a notebook
2. Click on the ![Three dot button](/plus-button-desktop.png) button on top right corner.
3. Enter title of the topic
4. Click on `Create topic`
5. You have added a new topic to notebook

# [Mobile](#/tab/mobile)

1. Go to `Notebooks` and open a notebook
2. Press the ![Three dot button](/plus-button-desktop.png) button on bottom right corner.
3. Enter title of the topic
4. Press the `Create` button.
5. You have added a new topic to notebook

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## Editing an existing topic

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

1. Go to `Notebooks` and open a notebook
2. Right click on a topic and select "Edit".
3. Edit the topic title
4. Click "Save" to save changes.

# [Mobile](#/tab/mobile)

1. Go to `Notebooks` and open a notebook
2. Press the ![Three dot button](/three-dot-button.png) button
3. Press on `Edit topic`
4. Edit title of topic
5. Press `Save` to save changes

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## Creating a new note in a notebook

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

1. Go to `Notebooks` and open a notebook
2. Click on the ![Three dot button](/plus-button-desktop.png) button on top right corner
3. Start writing in editor to create a note in the notebook

# [Mobile](#/tab/mobile)

1. Go to `Notebooks` and open a notebook
2. Click 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 top of the note in the list. Clicking on it will take you to the respective notebook/topic.
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> ![Notebook reference on a note](/notebook-ref.png)

## Linking an existing note to a notebook/topic

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

1. Right click on a note
2. Click on `Notebooks` > `Link to...`
3. Select the notebook or topic 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 `Link Notebooks` button.
3. Select the notebook or topic you want to link the note to (you can select multiple)
4. Click the `Save` button at the top right corner to save your changes.

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

## Linking multiple notes to a notebook/topic

# [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 or topic 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 or topic you want to link the note to (you can select multiple)
5. Click the `Save` button at the top right corner to save your changes.

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## Remove note from a notebook/topic

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

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

# [Mobile](#/tab/mobile)

1. Press the ![Three dot button](/three-dot-button.png) button
2. Click on `See all linked notebooks`
3. Long press on the notebook or topic you want to removve the note from

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## Delete a topic

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

1. Go to `Notebooks` and open the notebook from which you want to delete a topic.
2. Right click on the topic
3. Click on `Delete` to delete the topic.
4. (Optional) Select whether you also want to delete the notes inside this topic.

# [Mobile](#/tab/mobile)

1. Go to `Notebooks` from side menu and open the notebook from which you want to delete a topic.
2. Press the ![Three dot button](/three-dot-button.png) button to open `Topic properties` sheet
3. Press `Delete topic`
4. (Optional) Select whether you also want to delete the notes inside this topic.

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## Move a notebook to trash

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

1. Go to `Notebooks`
2. Right click on the notebook
3. Click on `Move to trash`.
4. Select whether you also want to delete the notes inside this notebook.

# [Mobile](#/tab/mobile)

1. Go to `Notebooks`
2. Press the ![Three dot button](/three-dot-button.png) button.
3. Press `Move to trash` to delete the notebook.
4. Select whether you also want to delete the notes inside this notebook.

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