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

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Organizing notes with notebooks

Notebooks are a quick and easy way for nested organization of notes.

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

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Starting from v3, topics have been replaced with sub notebooks and all existing topics have been converted into Notebooks. You can now create new notebooks inside existing notebooks.

Creating a notebook

Desktop/Web

1. Go to Notebooks from side menu
2. Click on the 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

Mobile

1. Go to Notebooks from side menu
2. Press the button on bottom right corner
3. Enter notebook title and description
4. Press the Create notebook button.
5. You have created your first notebook in Notesnook.

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Starting from v3, you can create new Notebooks inside existing notebooks. Simply go to any notebook's properties and click on "Add notebook".

Editing a notebook

Desktop/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

1. Go to Notebooks from side menu
2. Press the button on the notebook
3. Press on Edit Notebook
4. Edit your notebook
5. Press Save button to save changes

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Creating a new note in a notebook

Desktop/Web

1. Go to Notebooks and open a notebook
2. Click on the button on top right corner
3. Start writing in editor to create a note in the notebook

Mobile

1. Go to Notebooks and open a notebook
2. Click on the 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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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.

Linking an existing note to a notebook

Desktop/Web

1. Right click on a note
2. Click on Notebooks > Link to...
3. Select the notebook you want to link the note to (you can select multiple)
4. Click Done to save your changes.

Mobile

1. Tap the button
2. Tap on Link Notebooks button.
3. Select the notebook 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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In Notesnook a single note can exist in multiple Notebooks. However, a note will show only one reference on top.

Linking multiple notes to a notebook

Desktop/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 you want to link the note to (you can select multiple)
5. Click Done to save your changes.

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 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

Desktop/Web

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

Mobile

1. Press the button
2. Click on See all linked notebooks
3. Long press on the notebook you want to removve the note from

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Move a notebook to trash

Desktop/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

1. Go to Notebooks
2. Press the 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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