Notes

Notes are free-form rich-text documents — the place for research, planning, brainstorming, and anything that isn’t the manuscript itself.

Notes vs. manuscripts

Both use the same editor, but they serve different purposes:

	Manuscript	Notes
Purpose	The actual book	Research, plans, ideas
Included in book export	Yes	No (exportable separately)
Counts toward writing goals	Yes	No
Page links (`@`-mentions, embeds)	—	Yes
Structured properties	—	Yes

Creating a note

In the sidebar, click ＋ (or right-click a folder) and choose Notes.
Name it and start writing — everything from the manuscript editor works here too: formatting, blocks, slash commands, images.

What makes notes special

Page links — type @ to link to any character, location, manuscript, or other item in your project. See Page Links.
Page embeds — insert a full-width card linking to another page via the / menu.
Drag-and-drop linking — drag any item from the sidebar into a note to drop in a link card.
Cover image — give a note a cover for easy recognition.
Properties — structured fields on a note, without turning it into an entity.

Properties on a note

Under a note’s title is a collapsed Properties accordion — the same one an entity has, and it also appears in the note’s Details panel in the system sidebar. Open it and click ＋ to add a field: Text, Number, Checkbox, Select or Date. Same types, same controls: a research note can carry a “Source”, a “Confidence” checkbox and a date without being promoted to an entity. Date properties use your project’s calendar, exactly as an entity’s do.

Two differences from entity properties:

Note properties are per-note. There are no note templates, so nothing pushes the same set of fields onto every note.
There is no Add to template action, since a note has no entity template to add it to.

Properties are backed up and restored with the rest of the project.

Tags on a note

Above the Properties section sits the note’s tag strip. Where a property is a field with a value, a tag is just a label — put “needs research” or “Act II” on a note without deciding what shape it has. The same strip appears on entities, and the same tags are shared across both.

Annotations on a note

Where a property is a field and a tag is a label, an annotation is a remark about one passage of the note. Hover a paragraph and click the speech-bubble in its right margin; the thread appears in the Annotations panel of the right-hand sidebar, which opens as you write it.

Saving and exporting

Notes auto-save as you type — no Save button.
Export any note to PDF or Markdown from its action menu in the sidebar.