Organizing notes
Noted keeps structure lightweight: links between notes, tags, a project namespace, one level of folders, and a few generators (daily notes, templates). Everything is derived from the note files themselves.
Wikilinks
Type [[ to open an autocomplete of your existing notes. Pick one to insert a link rendered as [[Note name]].
- Click a wikilink to open it. If the target note does not exist yet, Noted creates it on the spot and opens it — dead links never lead to a dead end.
- With the cursor on a link, press Mod+Enter to follow it from the keyboard.
Backlinks
When other notes link to the current one, a Linked from panel appears below the editor listing each source as a chip. Click a chip to jump to that note. Backlinks are computed automatically from the links in your vault.
The connections panel
Open the Connections tab in the right panel to see how the current note relates to the rest of your vault, in three sections:
- Same project — notes that share a
#project/<name>tag with this one. - Linked from — backlinks.
- Links to — the wikilinks this note points at.
When a note has no connections yet, the panel invites you to add a [[wikilink]] or a #project/name tag.
Tags
Write #tag anywhere in a note. Typing # opens a tag autocomplete. Tags accept one optional namespace segment — #project/website is a single tag, while a second slash is not part of it.
The sidebar has a tag filter: click the tag icon to reveal your tags as chips and filter the note list to a single tag.
Projects
A project is just the #project/<name> tag, with one convenience on top. When you give several notes the same title, Noted notices and offers to group them: a banner appears above the editor —
N notes are named "…" — group them into a project?
Accepting adds the #project/<name> tag to the current note and to every matching note at once. From then on they show up together under Same project in the connections panel and under the sidebar's tag filter.
Folders
The sidebar supports one level of subfolders:
- Drag notes between folders and the root, and reorder notes and folders (which switches sorting to Custom).
- Double-click a folder header to rename it; each folder has its own "new note here" and delete actions.
- Pin a note (star) to keep it at the top.
- Cycle the sort order between Date, Name, Size, and Custom.
Sidebar rows are two lines: the title with a relative timestamp, and a short preview of the body.
Daily notes
Open today's daily note from the sidebar's calendar action, the empty-state button, Quick Open, or the File menu. The file is named YYYY-MM-DD.md. If it already exists it opens; otherwise Noted creates it with a localized long-form date heading and three sections: Notes, To-do, and Ideas.
Templates
Noted ships five built-in templates, each localized: Meeting, Project, Research, Journal, and Brainstorm. Open the template picker from the title bar or Quick Open to start a new note from one.
You can also save the current note as a custom template and reuse or delete it later.
Version history
Every save can snapshot the note. Open History from the title bar to browse previous versions and Restore one. Snapshots are stored per note (in a .noted_history folder inside your vault), captured when the content changed enough or enough time passed, and capped at the 20 most recent per note.
Note advisor
A small badge in the title bar surfaces suggestions about the current note, such as:
- a possible secret in the text (API tokens, keys, credentials),
- a generic title worth renaming,
- a long note that might be worth splitting, or one without headings,
- a stale note untouched for a long time,
- a duplicate topic shared with other notes, with an option to merge them.
Each suggestion comes with a one-click action. Merging concatenates the notes and removes the sources, so treat it as a deliberate action.
Next steps
- Search — find anything across the vault.