Organize notes.
See work move.
Projects, Kanban boards, and custom statuses. Find notes by title with Cmd/Ctrl+K.
Assign a note to a project.
Any note can belong to a project. Pick one from the project chip at the top of the note, and change it whenever you like.
A note captured straight into the Inbox: the title and first line are typed with no folder to pick, the status bar moves from Saving to Saved on its own, and only afterwards does the project chip in the top bar open a short menu and move the note into the Launch project.
View a project as a board.
Add statuses to a project and its notes line up in columns, one per status. Drag a card to change its status, or open it to keep writing.
Switch between list and board at any time - the project remembers which one you used last.
A project open as a board, in three columns: Todo, In progress and Done. A pointer drags notes from one column to the next - “Invite email arrives twice” into Done, “Pricing page copy” into In progress, and “Launch announcement draft” into Done - and each column’s count follows.
Set up your own statuses.
Every board starts with Todo, In progress and Done. Rename them, change their colors, reorder them, delete them or add new ones in the project settings.
Each status is also marked as not started, in progress, finished or dropped, so a note reads as done whatever you called its column.
The Statuses panel in a project’s settings. Three rows - Todo, In progress and Done - each with a color, an editable name, the behavior it stands for, buttons to move it up or down, and a button to delete it. Below them, Add status, and a note that this order is the order of the board columns.
Find any note from the keyboard.
Press Cmd/Ctrl+K anywhere in the app and type a note’s title to open it. Start with > to run a command, + to create a note, or # to search inside one project.
One field, four jobs: typing searches your notes by title, and a leading character changes what the field is for - > runs a command, + starts a new note, # searches inside one project, and ? lists the four.
On a phone, the same search is one tap away in the bottom bar.
Everything is in the sidebar.
New notes land in the Inbox. From the sidebar you can also open all your notes. Below that are your projects, each with its own name and color - the same color shows on the project chip of every note in it.
The app’s sidebar: Inbox and All notes, then a Projects list beneath them.
The useful answers.
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Do all notes need a project?
No. A note with no project is simply in the Inbox, and it can stay there for as long as you like.
Do I have to set up statuses?
No. A project is a plain list of notes until you ask for statuses, and projects you never track work in stay that way.
Can I rename the columns on a board?
Yes. A board starts with Todo, In progress and Done - rename them, recolor them, reorder them, or add your own. Each column is set to behave as not started, in progress, finished or dropped, and that is all the app reads from it.
What does search look at?
Note titles. Every word you type has to appear in the title, in any order, so “meeting notes” finds “Notes from the meeting” - name a note the way you would ask for it later. Starting with # narrows the same search to one project.
How are notes ordered?
Note lists show the newest notes first. On project boards, cards stay in the position you arrange them.
Are there tags or sub-folders?
Not today. Projects are a single flat level - a lightweight way to group related notes rather than a structure you have to design first.
What happens to notes if I delete a project?
They stay. The notes lose their project chip and go back to the Inbox, so deleting a project never takes work with it.
Can I search on my phone?
Yes. Cmd/Ctrl+K needs a keyboard, so phones get the same search as its own screen, one tap from the bottom bar.
Write it down now. Give it a place later.
From Inbox to project to board, it stays the same note the whole way.