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

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Organizing notes with notebooks

Notebooks consist of topics where you can add/create and edit your notes.

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

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Adding a description & topics are optional.

Mobile

1. Go to Notebooks from side menu.
2. Press the button on bottom right corner
3. Add title for your notebook.

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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

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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Create a new topic

Desktop/Web

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

1. Go to Notebooks and open a notebook
2. Press the 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

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

1. Go to Notebooks and open a notebook
2. Press the 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

1. Go to Notebooks and open a notebook
2. Open the topic in which you want to add a note
3. Click on the button on top right corner
4. Start writing in editor to create a note in the topic

Mobile

1. Go to Notebooks and open a notebook
2. Open the topic in which you want to add a note
3. Click on the button on bottom right corner to open the editor or just swipe from right to left to open editor
4. Start writing in editor to create a note in the topic

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Once a note is added to a notebook, it's references will show on top of the note in the list. Clicking on it will take you to the topic.

Adding a note to a topic

Desktop/Web

1. Right click on a note
2. Select Add to Notebook(s)
3. Select the notebook and topic in which you want to add the note
4. Click "Finish" to add the notes to the topic.
5. You should now see the notebook/topic below the note title. You can click on it to navigate to the topic directly.

Mobile

1. Press the button
2. Press on Add to notebook button.
3. Select the notebook and topic in which you want to add the note.
4. Once done, swipe down to close the sheet.
5. You should now see the notebook/topic on the top left side of the note. You can click on it to navigate to the topic directly.

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In Notesnook a single note can exist in multiple Notebooks and topics. However a note shows at most only one reference on top.

Adding multiple notes to a topic

Desktop/Web

1. Hold Ctrl key and click on the notes you want to select
2. Right click on selected notes
3. Click on Add to notebook(s).
4. Select the notebook and topic in which you want to add the notes
5. Click "Finish" to add the notes to the topic.
6. You should now see the notebook/topic below the note title. You can click on it to navigate to the topic directly.

Mobile

1. Long press on a note.
2. Click on Select from the Action bar.
3. Select notes & press the button in top header
4. Select the notebook and topic in which you want to add the notes
5. Once done, swipe down to close the sheet.

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Remove note from a topic

Desktop/Web

1. Right click on a note
2. Select Add to Notebook(s)
3. The notebooks in which the note exists will appear green. Click on the notebook to expand topics
4. Click on the topics in notebook from which you want to remove th note
5. Click "Finish" to save changes

Mobile

1. Press the button
2. Press on Add to notebooks
3. The notebook(s) in which the note exists will appear green. Press on a notebook to expand topics
4. Tap on topics you want to remove the note from
5. Once done, swipe down to close Add to notebook(s) sheet

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Delete a topic

Desktop/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. Select whether you also want to delete the notes inside this topic.

Mobile

1. Go to Notebooks from side menu and open the notebook from which you want to delete a topic.
2. Press the button to open Topic properties sheet
3. Press Delete topic
4. Select whether you also want to delete the notes inside this topic.

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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.
5. Notebook will be kept in trash for 7 days after which it will be permanently removed.

Mobile

1. Go to Notebooks
2. Press the button.
3. Press Move to trash to delete the topic.
4. Select whether you also want to delete the notes inside this notebook.
5. Notebook will be kept in trash for 7 days after which it will be permanently removed.

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