notesnook/docs/help/contents/organization/notebooks.md

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Notebooks

Organizing notes with notebooks

Even with thousands of notes, using notebooks will always help you keep your notes organized and tidy with easy access. Every notebook consists of different topics where you can add and create your notes.

Creating a notebook

Desktop/Web

1. Go to Notebooks from side menu.
2. Click on the + button on top right corner to open Create notebook dialog
3. Add title and description(Optional) to for your notebook.
4. Add topics to your notebook.
5. Click on Add button.
6. You have created your notebook!

Mobile

1. Go to Notebooks from side menu.
2. Press the + button on bottom right corner to open Create notebook dialog
3. Add title and description(Optional) to for your notebook.
4. Add topics to your notebook.
5. Press the Add button.
6. You have created your notebook!

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Editing an existing notebook

Desktop/Web

1. Go to Notebooks from side menu.
2. Right click on the Notebook or click on the three-dot more button to open Notebook properties
3. Select Edit Notebook
4. Edit the title or description
5. Add/Remove/Rename any topics
6. Click on Edit notebook button to save the changes

Mobile

1. Go to Notebooks from side menu
2. Press the three-dot more button on the notebook to open Notebook properties sheet
3. Press on Edit Notebook
4. Add title and description(Optional) to for your notebook
5. Add topics to your notebook.
6. Press Save button to save changes

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Adding a new topic

Desktop/Web

1. Go to Notebooks and open a notebook
2. Click on the + button on top right corner to open Add topic dialog
3. Enter title of the topic
4. Click on Add button to add 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 to open Add topic dialog
3. Enter title of the topic
4. Press the Add 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 or click on three-dot more button to open Edit topic dialog
3. Enter the new title for the topic
4. Click on Edit topic button to save changes

Mobile

1. Go to Notebooks and open a notebook
2. Press the three-dot more button to open Topic properties
3. Press on Edit topic to open Edit topic dialog
4. Enter the new title for the topic
5. Press Save button to save changes

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Creating a new note in topic

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 and start writing note in the editor
4. Note will be added to 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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Adding an existing note to a topic

Desktop/Web

1. Right click on a note or click on the three-dot more button to open Note properties sheet
2. Select Add to Notebook(s)
3. Click on a notebook to expand topics
4. Select the topic(s) in which you want to add your note. A single note can exist in multiple topics and notebooks.
5. You can also create new topics/notebooks from the dialog quickly
6. Click done to close the dialog.

Mobile

1. Press the three-dot more button to open Note properties sheet
2. Press on Add to
3. Press on a notebook to expand topics
4. Select the topic(s) where you want to add your note. A single note can exist in multiple topics and notebooks.
5. You can also create new topics/notebooks from the dialog quickly
6. Once done, swipe down to close Add to notebook(s) sheet.

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Adding multiple notes to a topic

Desktop/Web

1. Right click on a note or click on the three-dot more button to Note properties menu
2. Click on Select to enter multi-select mode
3. Click on the notes you want to select.
4. Click on the notebook-plus button to the header to open Add to notebook(s) dialog
5. Click on a notebook to expand topics
6. Select the topic(s) in which you want to add your notes. Notes can exist in multiple topics and notebooks.
7. You can also create new topics/notebooks from the dialog quickly
8. Click done to close Add to notebook(s) dialog.

Mobile

1. Long press on a note.
2. Click on Select from the Action bar.
3. Press on the notes you want to select
4. Press the + button in top header to open Add to notebook sheet
5. Click on a notebook to expand topics
6. Select the topic(s) where you want to add your note. Notes can exist in multiple topics and notebooks.
7. You can also create new topics/notebooks from the dialog quickly
8. 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 or click on the three-dot more button to open Note properties menu
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. A single note can exist in multiple topics and notebooks.
5. Click done to close the dialog.

Mobile

1. Press the three-dot more button on the note to open Note properties sheet
2. Press on Add to
3. The notebook(s) in which the note exists will appear green. Press on a notebook to expand topics
4. Press on remove note button on a topic to remove the note.
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 or click on the three-dot more button to open Topic properties menu
3. Click on Delete to delete the topic.

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 more button to open Topic properties sheet
3. Press Delete to delete the topic.

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Move a notebook to trash

Desktop/Web

1. Go to Notebooks
2. Right click on the topic or click on the three-dot more button to open Notebook properties menu
3. Click on Move to trash.
4. Notebook will be kept in trash for 7 days after which it will be permanently removed.

Mobile

1. Go to Notebooks
2. Press the three-dot more button to open Notebook properties sheet
3. Press Move to trash to delete the topic.
4. Notebook will be kept in trash for 7 days after which it will be permanently removed.

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