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. There is no save indicator: you see a message only if a save fails.
- It uses the same Russian typography as the editor.
The note tab holds what you write: the title, the text, and your images. The note's links and tags live in its Properties. To open them, click the Properties button at the right end of the note's title row, or right-click the note in the Explorer and choose Properties. Click the button again to hide Properties. Switching to a note tab never opens Properties by itself.
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.
Right-click a scene, chapter, or part in the Explorer, or an entry in the Book Wiki, and choose Add Note to create a note already linked to that item in one step.
Linking a note to your story
A note can link to structure items (a part, chapter, or scene) and to story entities (a character or location). 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.
A note can link to as many items as you like, and each linked item shows it back. The Properties of a scene, chapter, part, or wiki entry have a Notes section listing every note that links to that item. The list comes from the notes' own links: add a link in a note and the note appears in that item's section; remove the link and it leaves. The section also creates a new note already linked to the item.
To add or remove a link, open the note's Properties. Its links are listed there: click one to open the linked item in a new tab, or remove it, and add new links from the same place.
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.
Tagging a note
Tag a note in its Properties, with the same tags field that scenes and wiki cards use, or right-click the note in the Explorer and choose Tags for a quick assignment. Notes share the project's tags, so one tag can gather scenes, wiki cards, and notes. See Search and tags.
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 tag filter returns notes alongside scenes and entities, scoped to the active book. See Search and tags.
Notes are recoverable
Deleting a note sends it to Trash; restore brings it back as it was when deleted. 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