--- title: Notebooks --- # 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 > > 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 > > Adding a description & topics are optional. 4. Press the `Create notebook` button. 5. You have created your first notebook in Notesnook. --- ## 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 --- ## 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 --- ## 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 --- ## 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 --- > info > > 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. > > ![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. --- > info > > 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. --- ## 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 --- ## 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. --- ## 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. ---