Notes
Notes are free-standing documents that live inside your book — research findings, ideas for later, cut passages you want to keep, worldbuilding scraps that aren't wiki cards yet. A note is the home for the material that is neither manuscript nor Book Wiki.
A note is a lightweight document: a title and a body, nothing more required. Notes belong to a book — each book in a project keeps its own.
Creating and editing a note
Create a note from the Explorer or the command palette. A new note is titled with the current date by default; rename it whenever you like.
A note opens as an editor tab and behaves like any other writing surface:
- It autosaves as you type, and shows its save state.
- It uses the same Russian typography as the editor.
- It keeps a version history of its own, so you can roll back changes.
You'll find your notes in a Notes section in the Explorer, listed under the active book below its structure. Each note can also be opened by title from the command palette.
Linking a note to your story
A note can link to structure items (a part, chapter, or scene) and to story entities (a character, location, or plotline). These are navigation links: clicking one jumps you to the target, and nothing about the target changes. If the linked item is later trashed, the link shows as a deleted item rather than breaking.
For structured story knowledge, use the wiki instead — see Book Wiki. A note that grows into something entity-shaped is a sign to make a wiki card by hand.
Images in notes
Drop images into a note to keep a moodboard, a sketch, or a reference right beside your research. Note images render inline with the note and are stored as project files. See Media.
What notes are not
- Notes are not the manuscript. A note's words never count toward your book totals, daily written words, or writing goals, and a note never appears in any export.
- Notes are not the wiki. Loose ideas live in notes; confirmed story knowledge lives in cards.
Finding notes
Notes are part of project search: a search across the book includes your notes, and the result jumps you to the match. With tags, the project-wide tag filter returns notes alongside scenes and entities. See Search and tags.
Notes are recoverable
Deleting a note sends it to Trash; restore brings it back with its history intact. A whole-project rollback restores notes alongside your scenes, and notes travel in backups like the rest of your project. See Safety and recovery.
See also: Book Wiki · Media · Search and tags · Safety and recovery