Getting Started

A quick tour of the core workflows so you can start writing immediately.

The layout

• Left sidebar — folders, tags, recent notes, favorites and trash.
• Center — the Markdown editor with Live Preview.
• Right panel — backlinks and note information.

Create and organize

1. Create a note with Ctrl/Cmd+N.
2. Put notes into folders from the sidebar (drag or use the folder menu).
3. Assign tags with the tag workflow, available in both SQLite and vault modes.
4. Mark notes as favorites or find them under Recent.

Link notes together

Type [[ to autocomplete a wiki-link to another note title, or write a Markdown link to note.md. Click a link in the reading view to open the target.

See Wiki-links for the full picture, including backlinks.

Explore the graph

Open View → Graph View (or Ctrl/Cmd+G) to see your notes as a force-directed graph. Click a node to open its note. Toggle between the global graph and a local neighbourhood around the current note.

See Knowledge graph.

Plan with Kanban and Canvas

• Kanban — a normal note whose headings are columns and list items are cards. Open with View → Kanban Board or Ctrl/Cmd+K.
• Canvas — an Obsidian-compatible .canvas file on an infinite surface. Create one and add text, link and group nodes.

See Kanban and Canvas.

Next steps

• Search — full-text search and advanced operators.
• Plugins — Dataview, MCP Server, Publish and external JARs.
• Private notes — encrypt note bodies with AES-256.