Organizing your notes

GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL), Version 1.1

Pierre-Yves Luyten
2011
Aurimas Cernius
2011-2012,2019,2024
Adam Dingle
adam@yorba.org 2013

# Working With Notebooks

Notebooks let you group related notes together. You can add a note to a notebook in the main window or in the note editing view.

# Creating Notebooks

To create a new notebook:

Click on the menu button in main window and select New Notebook.

Enter a name for the new notebook.

Alternatively:

In the notebooks list at the bottom click the + button.

Enter a name for the new notebook and press Enter or click the confirmation button.

## New Notebook from context menu

New Notebook

# Adding Notes to a Notebook

You can add a note to a notebook from the main window or directly within a note.

To add a note to a notebook from the main window, do one of the following:

Drag the note(s) onto a notebook on the left using the mouse.

Select a notebook and use any of main window actions to create new note. A new note will be created and added to the notebook.

As you type a note, you can add the note directly to an existing notebook using the Note Actions Notebook menu.

## Adding Notes to a Notebook

Add to Notebook.

To remove a note from a notebook, use one of the following:

Move the note to Unfiled Notes in the main window.

Select the No Notebook option from the menu which appears when you press the Note Actions Notebook in an open note.

# Creating a Template

After you create a notebook, you can create a template for new notes that you create in that notebook.

In the notebooks list at the bottom click on Open Template Note button (the gear button).

This will open a new template note. Any text typed in this note will appear in all notes created in this notebook.

## Creating a Template

Note Template.

For more, see .

# Deleting a Notebook

Deleting a notebook will not delete any of the notes which are currently inside the notebook. After you delete a notebook, its notes will not be associated with any notebook and will appear in Unfiled Notes in the main window.

To delete a notebook, go to the main window and do one of the following:

Click Delete Notebook button at the bottom of notebooks list.

Remove all notes from a notebook. The notebook will be automatically removed the next time Gnote restarts.

## Deleting notebook from main window

Delete Notebook.

# Special Notebooks

Gnote has several special notebooks:

Active: notes that have been opened in the current Gnote session

All: all notes except templates

Important: notes marked as important

Unfiled: all notes that are not in a user-created notebook