User guide

Where your notes live, the three ways to start, and what Cocoa writes to disk.

The sidebar, the page, the panels, and every way to show and hide them.

Folders are subjects and notebooks are documents. How to make, colour and nest them.

Paper, pages, page breaks, dog-ears and zoom — writing on a page instead of a scroll.

Headings, lists, tables, links between notes, and Markdown you never have to look at.

The heart of Cocoa: pens that carry a meaning, and what happens to everything you mark.

Keep the lecture deck beside the page, and link a sentence to the exact slide it came from.

Every highlight, task, date, dog-ear, picture and link you made, gathered and exportable.

Flashcards built from your highlights, recall scheduling, quizzes and exams.

Instant full-text search, scopes, saved searches, Open Quickly and the command palette.

Prompts you copy into any assistant so pasted notes arrive already highlighted.

Moving, archiving, tagging, locking, and getting things back out of Recently Deleted.

Bring notes in from other apps, get them out in any format, and sync through iCloud Drive.

Appearance, pens, rebindable shortcuts, capture hotkey and backups.

Every shortcut in the app, in one printable list.

When something looks wrong, what it usually is and how to fix it.