notesnook/docs/help/contents/notes/note-actions.md

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Note actions	Every per-note action in Notesnook and where to find it	Pin, duplicate, print, copy, make read-only, or stop a single note from syncing — every per-note action in Notesnook, on desktop and mobile.	notesnook read only note duplicate a note copy note as markdown notesnook note menu	howto

What can I do with a single note?

Every note has a menu of actions on it. Right click a note on desktop or web, or press the button on mobile. This page covers the actions that aren't documented elsewhere — making a note read-only, duplicating it, copying it, printing it, fixing its creation date, keeping it off sync, and seeing what links to it.

Open the note menu

:::tabs key:platform == Desktop/Web

1. Right click a note in the list to open the Note properties menu.

Some of the same switches also live in the editor: open a note, then click {{properties}} in the action bar at the top right.

== Mobile

1. Tap the button on a note.

The sheet that opens holds every action for that note.

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Open a note in a new tab

Opening a note in a new tab puts it in its own editor tab instead of replacing whatever is already open, so you can keep two notes on the go at once.

:::tabs key:platform == Desktop/Web

1. Right click the note.
2. Click {{openInNewTab}}. It is the first item in the note menu.

== Mobile

1. Tap the button on a note.
2. Tap the open-in-new icon at the top right of the properties sheet, beside the note's title.

The button only appears for notes, and it has no text label. On a phone, tapping it also takes you straight to the editor; on a tablet the note opens in a new tab beside the list you are already looking at.

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Unlink a note from all its notebooks

{{unlinkFromAll}} removes the note from every notebook it belongs to in one step, without deleting the note or the notebooks. It works on a multiple selection too.

:::tabs key:platform == Desktop/Web

1. Right click the note, or select several notes and right click.
2. Open {{notebooks}}.
3. Click {{unlinkFromAll}}.

The action only appears when at least one of the selected notes is already in a notebook.

== Mobile

There is no single action that unlinks a note from every notebook at once. Two ways round it:

• One note — tap the button, tap {{addToNotebook}}, and unselect the notebooks one by one.
• Several notes, one notebook — open the notebook, long press a note to start selecting, tap the rest, then tap {{unlinkNotebook}} in the header. That removes every selected note from the notebook you are viewing. The action only appears while you are inside a notebook.

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Remove all tags from a note

{{removeFromAll}} strips every tag off the note. The tags themselves are not deleted — they stay in your tags list and on your other notes. It works on a multiple selection too.

:::tabs key:platform == Desktop/Web

1. Right click the note, or select several notes and right click.
2. Open Tags.
3. Click {{removeFromAll}}.

The action only appears when at least one of the selected notes already has a tag.

== Mobile

There is no single action that strips every tag at once, but tags can be removed from several notes together:

1. Long press a note to start selecting, then tap the other notes you want.
2. Tap {{manageTags}} in the header.
3. Tap a tag that is currently applied to remove it from every selected note. Tap it again to put it back.

For a single note, tap the button and {{addTags}} instead.

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Make a note read-only

{{readOnly}} locks the note against editing. The content stays visible and searchable — you cannot type into it. It is a toggle: turn it off and the note becomes editable again.

:::tabs key:platform == Desktop/Web

1. Right click the note.
2. Click {{readOnly}}.

The editor's {{properties}} panel has the same {{readOnly}} switch, and it applies to any note tab that is already open.

== Mobile

1. Tap the button on the note.
2. Tap {{readOnly}}.

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A read-only note shows a small pencil-lock icon in the notes list.

Duplicate a note

{{duplicate}} makes a full copy of the note — title, content and formatting — as a new, separate note. Editing the copy does not touch the original.

:::tabs key:platform == Desktop/Web

1. Right click the note.
2. Click {{duplicate}}.

{{duplicate}} also works on a multiple selection: select several notes first and every one of them is copied.

== Mobile

1. Tap the button on the note.
2. Tap {{duplicate}}.

A {{noteDuplicated}} toast confirms it.

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Copy a note's link

{{copyLink}} copies the note's internal nn:// link to the clipboard, so you can paste it into another note and have a working note link. On desktop and web the link is copied as plain text, HTML and Markdown at the same time, so pasting into an editor produces a proper link rather than raw text.

:::tabs key:platform == Desktop/Web

1. Right click the note.
2. Click {{copyLink}}.

== Mobile

1. Tap the button on the note.
2. Tap {{copyLink}}.

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Either way a {{linkCopied}} toast confirms it.

Copy a note as text or Markdown

This copies the note's content to the clipboard, not a link to it — for pasting into an email, a chat, or another app.

:::tabs key:platform == Desktop/Web

1. Right click the note.
2. Open {{copyAs}}.
3. Choose Text for plain text, or Markdown to keep headings, lists, bold and links as Markdown syntax.

A {{noteCopied}} toast confirms it.

== Mobile

1. Tap the button on the note.
2. Tap {{copy}}.

Mobile copies the note as plain text. There is no Markdown option in the copy action — use {{export}} and pick Markdown if you need Markdown, or use {{share}} to hand the text to another app.

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If the note is in your private vault you'll be asked for your vault password first.

Print a note

:::tabs key:platform == Desktop/Web

1. Right click the note.
2. Click {{print}}.

The note is rendered as a PDF and handed to your system print dialog, so you can send it to a printer or save it as a PDF file.

== Mobile

There is no print action on mobile. Press the button, press {{export}}, choose PDF, and print or share the resulting file from there.

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Change a note's creation date

Useful after an import, when notes arrive stamped with the day you imported them rather than the day you wrote them.

:::tabs key:platform == Desktop/Web

1. Open the note.
2. Click {{properties}} in the action bar at the top right.
3. Next to {{createdAt}}, click the pencil icon.
4. In the {{editCreationDate}} dialog set the {{date}} and {{time}} fields — the expected formats are shown under each field, and the calendar icon opens a day picker.
5. Click {{save}}.

The creation date cannot be later than the note's last edited date. If you pick a later one, Notesnook refuses with {{creationDateCannotBeAfterLastEditedDate}}.

== Mobile

1. Tap the button on a note.
2. Scroll to the dates at the bottom of the properties sheet.
3. Tap the date beside Created at — it has a pencil icon after it.
4. Pick a date and time in the picker, then confirm.

The picker sets the date and the time together, and uses whichever 12- or 24-hour format you have set in your date and time settings. There is no separate save step — confirming the picker saves the change.

The picker won't let you choose anything later than the note's last edited date; those days are unselectable rather than rejected with an error.

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The pencil only appears on notes. Notebooks, tags and reminders show their dates read-only.

Keep a note off sync

{{syncOff}} marks a single note as local-only, independently of your global sync settings. It stays on the device you're using and stops syncing; future changes to it never leave that device.

::: warning This removes the note from your other devices Turning {{syncOff}} on for a note deletes it from every other device you're signed in on, and any changes you make to it afterwards will not sync. This is exactly what the confirmation asks you: Prevent note from syncing. Make sure the device you're keeping it on is the one you want it on, and that you have a backup.

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:::tabs key:platform == Desktop/Web

1. Right click the note.
2. Click {{syncOff}}.
3. Confirm Prevent note from syncing with {{yes}}.

Turning it off syncs the note again from that device. The editor {{properties}} panel carries the same switch, labelled {{disableSync}}. The action only appears when you're logged in.

== Mobile

1. Tap the button on the note.
2. Tap {{syncOff}}.

The action only does anything when you're logged in.

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A local-only note shows a crossed-out sync icon in the notes list.

See what links to a note

{{references}} lists the notes on both sides of a note link: the ones this note links out to, and the ones that link back to it.

:::tabs key:platform == Desktop/Web

1. Open the note.
2. Click {{properties}} in the action bar at the top right.
3. Switch between {{linkedNotes}} and {{referencedIn}} at the top of the panel.

== Mobile

1. Tap the button on the note.
2. Tap {{references}}.
3. Switch between the {{linkedNotes}} and {{referencedIn}} tabs.

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See note links for what these lists contain and how to jump to an individual paragraph.

Related pages

• Note links — linking notes together and reading backlinks
• Expiring notes — have a note delete itself on a date you choose
• Export notes — saving notes as PDF, Markdown, HTML or text files
• Note version history — recovering an earlier version of a note
• Sync settings — the app-wide controls behind per-note {{syncOff}}
• Archive notes — moving a note out of the way without deleting it