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title: Notesnook Help
description: Your complete and free resource to using Notesnook as a daily note taking app to organize your work and life while safeguarding your privacy.
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# Welcome to Notesnook Help

Notesnook is a free and open source note taking app focused on user privacy & ease of use. To ensure zero knowledge principles, Notesnook encrypts everything on your device using `XChaCha20-Poly1305` & `Argon2`.

Notesnook is our **proof** that privacy does _not_ (always) have to come at the cost of convenience. Our goal is to provide users peace of mind & 100% confidence that their notes are safe and secure. The decision to go fully open source is one of the most crucial steps towards that.

And with that convenience in mind, we believe that it is equally important to put together a simple & useful help website about everything Notesnook. Our help is a complete walkthrough of the Notesnook app and it's features.

Before we get started, let's [download & install Notesnook](https://notesnook.com/downloads) on all your devices.

Once that's done, let's learn how to [create your first note](/create-a-note-in-notesnook) in Notesnook.