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 multi-level notes organization. Starting from v2.4.7, topics are now optional in Notebooks and notes can be put directly under a notebook.

If you are coming from Evernote, you can think of Notebooks as "Evernote Stacks" & topics as "Evernote Notebooks". However, keep in mind, that there is a key difference:

"Evernote Stacks" do not allow putting notes directly under them i.e., a Stack is just a collection of Notebooks and nothing else.

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

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. 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/topic.

Linking an existing note to a notebook/topic

Desktop/Web

1. Right click on a note
2. Click on Notebooks > Link to...
3. Select the notebook or topic 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 or topic 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 and topics. However, a note will show only one reference on top.

Linking multiple notes to a notebook/topic

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 or topic 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 or topic 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/topic

Desktop/Web

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

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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. (Optional) 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. (Optional) 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.

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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