Organizing notebooks
A notebook holds sections. Sections can be gathered into section groups, which can nest up to eight levels. A section holds pages, and a page can have subpages two levels deep.
Notebooks
| Action | How |
|---|---|
| New notebook | + at the top of the notebook pane, File › New Notebook… (⇧⌘N), or the File view. It starts with a section called Notes and one page. |
| Rename | Right-click the notebook › Rename notebook |
| Delete | Right-click › Delete notebook. Its pages go to the recycle bin. The sections and groups themselves are not kept, so export a backup first if you want the organization back. |
Sections
| Action | How |
|---|---|
| New section | Section under a notebook, Insert › Section, or right-click a notebook or group › New section. A new section starts with one empty page. |
| Rename | Right-click › Rename section |
| Color | Right-click › Section color… |
| Reorder | Right-click › Move up / Move down. Sections move among their siblings in the same group. |
| Move | Right-click › Move to notebook or group…, then pick a notebook root or a group, in any notebook |
| Delete | Right-click › Delete section. All its pages go to the recycle bin. |
Section groups
| Action | How |
|---|---|
| New group | Group under a notebook, Insert › Section Group (⌥⌘G), or right-click a group › New nested group |
| Open or close | Click the group. Notr remembers which groups are closed. |
| Rename | Right-click › Rename group |
| Reorder | Right-click › Move up / Move down |
| Move | Right-click › Move group…. The group takes all of its nested groups and sections, with every page, and can go to another notebook. A group can't move into itself or one of its own groups, and the result can't be deeper than eight levels. |
| Ungroup | Right-click › Ungroup (keep all notes). Only the group goes: its sections and child groups move up to its parent. No page is deleted. |
Hovering over a section or group shows its full path, such as My notebook / Research / Drafts / Ideas.
Pages
| Action | How |
|---|---|
| New page | Add page in the page list, Insert › New Page, ⌘N or ⌥⌘N. Notr opens the title for typing. |
| New subpage | Right-click a page › New subpage, Insert › Subpage or ⇧⌥⌘N |
| Rename | Double-click the title on the page, right-click › Rename, Review › Rename or F2 in the page list |
| Duplicate | Right-click › Duplicate page. The copy is placed after the page and its subpages, titled "… (copy)", without the page versions. |
| Favorite | Right-click › Favorite, or Review › Favorite. Favorites show a ★. |
| Delete | Right-click › Delete page, or ⌫ in the page list. The page goes to the recycle bin; its subpages stay and move up one level. |
Subpages
| Action | How |
|---|---|
| Make subpage | Right-click › Make subpage: the page, with its own subpages, becomes a subpage of the page above it at the same level |
| Promote | Right-click › Promote page: the page moves up a level and lands after its old parent's subpages |
| Fold | The arrow in front of a page, right-click › Collapse subpages / Expand subpages, or ← and → in the page list |
A page can be at most two levels deep. When a command would go deeper, nothing happens and the status bar says why.
Moving pages
- Move up / Move down in a page's right-click menu swaps it, with its subpages, with the neighbouring page at the same level.
- Drag a page by its grip. Drop it on the top part of another page to put it before that page, on the bottom part to put it after, or in the middle to make it that page's last subpage. The drop target is outlined; a page can't be dropped on itself or its own subpages, or where it would end up deeper than two levels.
- Move to section… in the right-click menu moves the page, with its subpages, to the end of any section in any notebook.
Every move is one step to undo.