Organizing your notes

The sidebar next to the editor is your library: a tree of folders and notes you can rearrange entirely by dragging. It is built to be tidied in passing, not administered.

Notes and folders

Create a note with the New note button, from a folder's menu to create it inside that folder, or with Ctrl+N (Cmd+N on macOS). New folders start at the top level; nest them by dragging one onto another. Nesting has no depth limit, and every folder shows a count of all the notes it contains, however deep.

Rename anything by double-clicking its name, or from the row's menu. Deleting a note asks first.

Drag-and-drop

Dragging is the whole organizational model:

• Drop a note onto a folder to file it inside; the whole row is the target, wherever you let go.
• Drop it near the top or bottom edge of another note to place it above or below that note.
• Drop a folder onto another folder to nest it; aim for the edges to reorder instead.

Mnemo will not let you drop a folder into itself or its own subtree, so there is no way to lose a branch of the tree inside itself.

Favourites

Star a note from its row menu or from the star in the breadcrumb bar above the editor. Favourites sit in their own section at the top of the sidebar, sorted by most recently touched, which makes it a natural home for whatever you are studying this week.

Finding things

• By title: press Ctrl+P to jump to the sidebar search. The tree flattens to matching notes while you type.
• Inside a note: press Ctrl+F for find and replace, with case-sensitive and whole-word toggles, Enter and Shift+Enter to walk matches, and replace one or all.
• Within a long note: the floating Index chip in the corner of the editor lists the note's headings and your reading progress; click a heading to jump there.