notesnook/docs/help/contents/lock-notes-with-private-vault.md

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Locking notes with private vault	Password protect your most important and sensitive notes with private vault and store them encrypted even on your device.

Locking notes

Notesnook is a private notes app. All your notes are encrypted and secure by default. We can not read your notes even if we want to on our servers. However you can still add an extra layer of security and encrypt your most important and sensitive notes by adding them to a vault.

Adding notes to private vault is useful when you do not want anyone to read your notes, even if they have access to your phone.

Creating a vault

Desktop/Web

1. Go to Settings
2. Go to Vault in Security & privacy section
3. Click on Create button
4. Enter the password for your vault (this password will be used to open all locked notes)
5. Click on Create in the dialog to create the vault.

Mobile

1. Go to Settings from Sidebar
2. Scroll down to Privacy and Security section
3. Tap on Create vault
4. Enter password for the vault (this password will be used to open all locked notes)
5. Tap on Create button to create the vault.

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Lock a note

Desktop/Web

1. Right click on any note
2. Select Lock from the context menu
3. Enter the password for the vault
4. Press Enter key to lock the note

Mobile

1. Tap the button on a note
2. Tap on Lock button in the note properties
3. Enter password for the vault
4. Press on Lock to add note to vault.

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Open/edit/delete a locked note

To open, edit or delete a locked note, you must provide the password for the vault to unlock it.

Unlock a note permanently

Desktop/Web

1. Right click on any note
2. Select Unlock from the context menu
3. Enter the password for the vault in dialog.
4. Click on Unlock to remove note from vault

Mobile

1. Tap the button on a note
2. Tap on Unlock button in the note properties
3. Enter password for the vault
4. Tap on Unlock to remove note from vault.

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Change vault password

Desktop/Web

1. Go to Settings
2. Go to Vault in Security & privacy section
3. Click on Change button next to Change vault password heading
4. Enter the old and new password for the vault
5. Click on Change password to update the password

Mobile

1. Go to Settings from Sidebar.
2. Scroll down to Privacy and Security section
3. Tap on Vault
4. Press on Change vault password
5. Enter the old and new password for the vault
6. Click on Change to update password

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Clear vault

Desktop/Web

1. Go to Settings
2. Go to Vault in Security & privacy section
3. Click on Clear button next to Clear vault heading
4. Enter your vault password and click on clear vault. All notes in the vault will be deleted.

Mobile

1. Go to Settings from Sidebar.
2. Scroll down to Privacy and Security section
3. Tap on Vault
4. Tap on Clear vault
5. Enter your vault password and tap on Clear. All notes in the vault will be deleted.

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Delete vault

In the event that you have forgotten your vault password, you can delete the vault and (optionally) delete all the notes in it.

Desktop/Web

1. Go to Settings
2. Go to Vault in Security & privacy section
3. Click on Delete button next to Delete vault heading
4. Enter your account password and click on Delete vault to delete the vault

Mobile

1. Go to Settings from Sidebar.
2. Scroll down to Privacy and Security section
3. Tap on Vault
4. Tap on Delete vault
5. Enter your account password and tap on Delete to delete the vault

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