What it is
A Notebook is a named collection of notes, with an optional cover image and description. Notes can belong to any number of notebooks at once. Unlimited on every plan.
Why it matters
Two reasons. First, fidelity: your physical shelf has structure — the Hobonichi, the project notebook, the prayer journal — and your archive can mirror it. Second, scoped asking: inside a notebook, Search and Ask read only that collection. "How is this project going?" asked against the project's own log is a sharper question than the same words asked against everything.
How to use it
- Create: dashboard → notebook icon → +. Name is required (each name once — case doesn't matter); Specification and Purpose are optional descriptions. Add a cover photo if you like, or keep the generated one.
- File notes: pick notebooks in the Notebook field when creating a note, or change an existing note's notebooks from its Edit page. You can also create a new notebook right from that picker.
- Browse: tap a notebook card — it opens as a book you can page through (the Flip-Through). Close it (✕) to land on the notebook's page list: the header shows the details, the notes below are just this notebook's, the search bar scopes to it, and Ask answers only from it.
- Edit / delete: the notebook's Edit button opens the same dialog — rename, re-describe, change the cover, set which side its first page sits on, or delete. Deleting removes only the grouping (you'll see the note count before confirming); every note stays in your archive.
Tips
- Mirror your physical notebooks for archives ("Leuchtturm #6, 2024"), and add thematic notebooks on top ("Health", "The Novel") — notes can live in both.
- Notebook-scoped Asks saved as Timelines keep the scope forever — a project notebook plus a "How is this going?" Timeline is a powerful pair.
- Covers display at their original proportions, uncropped — a photo of the notebook itself (or its first page) makes a natural cover.
Current limitations
- The notebook view and the star filter are separate dashboard modes — one at a time.
- Notebook groupings are included in your data export as metadata (in
notes.json), though the markdown files themselves aren't foldered by notebook yet.