Notes
Every workspace has its own Notes — a Markdown scratchpad that lives beside your board rather than on the grid. Use it for anything that doesn't belong in a group: meeting notes, a running checklist of ideas, snippets, or a personal readme for the workspace.
Opening Notes
Click the Notes button (the pen icon) next to the search bar. It opens a full-height panel with your list of notes on the left and the editor on the right.
Notes are per workspace — switching workspaces on the dashboard shows that workspace's notes. They are stored off the board grid, so they never take up a group slot and never appear as a board element.
Writing
The editor speaks Markdown and has three view modes, switchable from the top of the editor:
| Mode | What you see |
|---|---|
| Write | Just the Markdown source, distraction-free |
| Split | Source on the left, live preview on the right |
| Preview | The rendered result only |
A small toolbar adds the common Markdown marks (headings, bold, italic, lists, links, code) around your selection so you don't have to remember the syntax.
- Each note has a title and a body. Give it a title inline at the top of the editor — the same way you name a new note as you create it.
- New note starts a fresh draft and focuses the title so you can type straight away.
- Empty drafts are discarded automatically — if you open a new note and don't write anything, it won't clutter the list.
Privacy & protected workspaces
Notes belong to the workspace they were written in and follow its protection:
- In a normal workspace they are stored locally in your browser like the rest of your board.
- In a protected workspace ✦, notes are encrypted at rest with the same key as the board and stay hidden until you unlock the workspace — the Notes panel shows a locked state until then.
See Limits, caveats & privacy for how local data is stored.
Sync ✦
With Cloud sync enabled, your notes ride along with the rest of your data so they're available on every device where you're signed in.
Notes vs. board text
For a quick label or a paragraph on the board, use a Text or Calloutboard element. Notes are for longer, free-form writing that you don't want occupying grid space.