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Notebooks, Inbox & Trash

Notebooks are the folder tree down the left side of the app. They exist to organize the corpus for you — retrieval, search, and chat never depend on where a note is filed, so you're free to organize loosely and lean on search for recall.

The notebooks tree down the left side of the app.

The notebooks tree is the folder rail down the left. **①** Notebooks header · **②** My Notes · **③** a notebook row.

The tree

  • My Notes (top) — the everything-view; opens the workspace table of all notes.

The workspace table of the entire library.

Clicking My Notes opens the workspace — a filterable table of every note by title, tags, notebook, source, and dates.
  • Pinned — notes you've starred, kept at the top for quick access.

The Pinned section of the notebooks tree.

The Pinned section (highlighted) keeps your starred notes at the top of the tree.
  • Your notebooks — nest freely; each row shows a live note count and a status dot. Expand with the chevron.

A notebook row with its note-count badge.

Each notebook row (highlighted) carries a live badge counting the notes it holds.
  • Trash (bottom) — soft-deleted notes, restorable.

Collapse the whole pane with the chevron at its top edge when you want more room for the editor.

Creating & organizing

  • New note / subfolder — + New note at the top, or right-click a notebook for a context menu (New note, New subfolder, Rename, Delete, Move to…).
  • Rename inline — right-click → Rename turns the row into a text field; Enter accepts, Esc cancels.
  • Drag to reparent — drag a note onto a notebook to move it; drag a notebook onto another to nest it.

Inbox

Inbox is a special, undeletable notebook that receives email-to-inbox captures — you forward or send mail to your inbox address (configured in Settings → Sources) and it lands here as a note. Treat it as a landing pad: triage from Inbox into real notebooks (or let the autorouter file it for you).

Trash

Deleting a note is a soft delete — it moves to Trash with a deletion timestamp, not gone. Open Trash to see recently deleted notes and Restore any of them. This is deliberate: a mis-click is always recoverable.

The Trash entry at the bottom of the notebooks tree.

The Trash entry (highlighted) sits at the bottom of the tree and holds soft-deleted, restorable notes.

Permanent deletion is not a casual action

Trash protects you from accidents. Emptying it (permanent deletion) is intentionally not a one-click, in-passing action — because it's irreversible. When in doubt, leave it in Trash; it costs nothing.

Best practice — shallow trees, strong tags

Because search doesn't care about folders, a deep, fussy notebook hierarchy earns you little. A pragmatic structure is a handful of top-level notebooks (e.g. one per active project, plus Meetings, Decisions, Reference) and lots of tags. Let the autorouter keep the filing tidy so you don't have to.

Next: Tags & entities →