A tour of the window
The window has a sidebar on the left, the page in the middle, and two optional columns: the inspector on the right and a second pane beside the page. This tour names each part and the key that reaches it.
- Sidebar
- Show or hide with ⌃⌘S
- Inspector
- Show or hide with ⌥⌘I
- Second pane
- Open Beside, from the top bar or the View menu
- Save status
- The line at the foot of the sidebar
The sidebar
The sidebar lists where your notes are, from top to bottom. The name of the workspace at the top opens its menu. Below it are the search field, which opens the palette, and the fixed rows:
| Row | What it does |
|---|---|
| Today | Opens today's page. ⇧⌘D |
| Journal | Shown when the workspace has a Journal, after Today |
| Inbox | The page for new notes |
| Supertags | The supertags browser, with its supertags and fields |
| Create new | Starts a draft note on the current page. ⌘N |
| Trash | Notes you moved to Trash |
Below the fixed rows come Pinned pages, Recents, the Workspaces you have added, Searches, and the list of supertags. Click a row to open its page. Pinned pages are the ones you pin from the sidebar's menu or Go ▸ Pin Page.
The top bar
The top bar runs across the window. The left side has the sidebar toggle, Back and Forward. The middle shows the page's title, then the workspace's name. The right side has the buttons for the current page:
- ⌘N
- New noteA draft on the current page, or in the Inbox when the page cannot hold notes
- ⇧⌘T
- Tags and FieldsThe supertags and fields of the selected note or the page
- ⌘K
- Find or open a noteThe palette
- ⌥⌘I
- InspectorShows or hides the right column
Open Beside, the second pane's button, sits here too. Hover a button to see its name and shortcut.
Breadcrumbs and the page
The breadcrumbs show the path of notes that leads to the page. Click a segment to open that note. A long path shortens to “…”. The page header also holds the title, which you can edit in place, the supertag chips and the fields. The notes of the page follow.
The “…” menu at the right of the page header holds the page's commands, such as Add Field, Tags and Fields, Show as Table, and Open Beside. On the Trash page it holds Restore All.
The page footer
Each page pane ends with a thin footer. On the left it counts the notes on the page, with their to-dos and how many are done. On the right it lists three keys: Return for a new note, Tab for indent, and Command-Return for a checkbox.
The status line
The status line sits at the foot of the sidebar. It reads Saved when your last change is stored, Saving… while a change is being written, and an error with a Retry button if a save fails. In a read-only workspace it reads Read-only. Click it to see details, including whether the Markdown copy is up to date.
The inspector
The inspector is the optional column on the right. Show it with ⌥⌘I. It has three modes, and the menu at its top chooses one:
| Mode | Where it is available | What it shows |
|---|---|---|
| Related content | Note pages | The notes that link to the page, and the notes that mention it without a link |
| Configure | Supertag, field and saved search pages | The settings of that page |
| Details | Every page | The selected note's details, with its Details and References tabs |
The second pane
Open Beside splits the page area in two. The new pane shows the selected note's page, or the current page when no note is selected. Each pane keeps its own history, so Back in one pane does not move the other. Choose Open Beside from the top bar, the View menu, the “…” page menu or a note's right-click menu. Choose it again, now named Close Beside, to close the pane.
Combine it
- Open a note beside its projectSelect a note under a project and choose Open Beside. Edit the note on one side while the project's page stays visible.
- Related content in the inspectorShow related content in the inspector while you read a page, to see every note that links to it.
- Pinned pages in the sidebarPin the pages you open most, and they stay in the sidebar under Pinned.
- Bigger text for the windowChange the text size with ⌘+ and ⌘-, and the sidebar and top bar grow with it.
Limits
- A window has one second pane.
- A read-only workspace shows the status line as Read-only, and its editing commands are off.