Organizing notes with notebooks
Notebooks are a quick and easy way for multi-level notes organization. Starting from v2.4.7, topics are now optional in Notebooks and notes can be put directly under a notebook.
If you are coming from Evernote, you can think of Notebooks as “Evernote Stacks” & topics as “Evernote Notebooks”. However, keep in mind, that there is a key difference:
“Evernote Stacks” do not allow putting notes directly under them i.e., a Stack is just a collection of Notebooks and nothing else.
In Notesnook, one note can belong to multiple notebooks & topics. This allows for very flexible organization structures. For example, an author can “link” the character list to all the chapter topics instead of duplicating it for each chapter. Similarly, a user can link common notes between multiple topics without the need for any duplication.
Creating a notebook
- Go to
Notebooks
from side menu
- Click on the
button on top right corner
- Add title for your notebook
- Click on
Create
button
- You have created your first notebook in Notesnook
Adding a description & topics are optional.
- Go to
Notebooks
from side menu.
- Press the
button on bottom right corner
- Add title for your notebook.
Adding a description & topics are optional.
- Press the
Create notebook
button.
- You have created your first notebook in Notesnook.
Editing a notebook
- Go to
Notebooks
from side menu.
- Right click on the Notebook you want to edit and select “Edit” from dropdown.
- Edit your notebook.
- Click on
Save
button to save the changes.
- Go to
Notebooks
from side menu
- Press the
button on the notebook
- Press on
Edit Notebook
- Edit your notebook
- Press
Save
button to save changes
Create a new topic
- Go to
Notebooks
and open a notebook
- Click on the
button on top right corner.
- Enter title of the topic
- Click on
Create topic
- You have added a new topic to notebook
- Go to
Notebooks
and open a notebook
- Press the
button on bottom right corner.
- Enter title of the topic
- Press the
Create
button.
- You have added a new topic to notebook
Editing an existing topic
- Go to
Notebooks
and open a notebook
- Right click on a topic and select “Edit”.
- Edit the topic title
- Click “Save” to save changes.
- Go to
Notebooks
and open a notebook
- Press the
button
- Press on
Edit topic
- Edit title of topic
- Press
Save
to save changes
Creating a new note in a notebook
- Go to
Notebooks
and open a notebook
- Click on the
button on top right corner
- Start writing in editor to create a note in the notebook
- Go to
Notebooks
and open a notebook
- Click on the
button on bottom right corner to open the editor or just swipe from right to left to open editor
- Start writing in editor to create a note in the notebook
Once a note is added to a notebook, you will see its path on top of the note in the list. Clicking on it will take you to the respective notebook/topic.

Linking an existing note to a notebook/topic
- Right click on a note
- Click on
Notebooks
> Link to...
- Select the notebook or topic you want to link the note to (you can select multiple)
- Click
Done
to save your changes.
- Tap the
button
- Tap on
Link Notebooks
button.
- Select the notebook or topic you want to link the note to (you can select multiple)
- Click the
Save
button at the top right corner to save your changes.
In Notesnook a single note can exist in multiple Notebooks and topics. However, a note will show only one reference on top.
Linking multiple notes to a notebook/topic
- Hold
Ctrl
key and click on all the notes you want to link
- Right click on selected notes
- Click on
Notebooks
> Link to...
- Select the notebook or topic you want to link the note to (you can select multiple)
- Click
Done
to save your changes.
- Long press on a note to enter multi selection mode.
- Tap on all the notes you want to link to select them
- Tap the
+
button in top header
- Select the notebook or topic you want to link the note to (you can select multiple)
- Click the
Save
button at the top right corner to save your changes.
Remove note from a notebook/topic
- Right click on a note
- Click on
Notebooks
in the context menu
- Click on the notebook/topic you want to remove the note from
- Press the
button
- Click on
See all linked notebooks
- Long press on the notebook or topic you want to removve the note from
Delete a topic
- Go to
Notebooks
and open the notebook from which you want to delete a topic.
- Right click on the topic
- Click on
Delete
to delete the topic.
- (Optional) Select whether you also want to delete the notes inside this topic.
- Go to
Notebooks
from side menu and open the notebook from which you want to delete a topic.
- Press the
button to open Topic properties
sheet
- Press
Delete topic
- (Optional) Select whether you also want to delete the notes inside this topic.
Move a notebook to trash
- Go to
Notebooks
- Right click on the notebook
- Click on
Move to trash
.
- Select whether you also want to delete the notes inside this notebook.
- Go to
Notebooks
- Press the
button.
- Press
Move to trash
to delete the topic.
- Select whether you also want to delete the notes inside this notebook.