Notes.

A note is a piece of text only you can read. It is meant to hold what goes alongside your documents: a case number, someone's contact details, the steps of an ongoing procedure, a shopping list.

The editor saves as you type, with no click needed, and a Save button remains available. The text accepts Markdown formatting, with a preview: **bold**, *italic*, headings, lists and links.

Notes can be filed into folders, marked with a heart so you find them quickly, and searched by title and content. Nothing is published or shareable: unlike a document, a note has no public link.

From a saved note, Security then Encrypt asks for a passphrase of at least 8 characters, then for its confirmation. The content is then encrypted with AES-256-CBC and a SHA-512 digest, in GPG format. Once the operation finishes, what our servers hold is unreadable without your passphrase, including to us.

That passphrase is never sent to us in clear and we cannot recover it. If you forget it, the content of the note is lost for good. Write it down somewhere else, outside the note it protects.

An encrypted note behaves differently: its excerpt no longer shows in the list, it cannot be duplicated, and it no longer keeps a version history. It stays available in raw form, which lets you decrypt it yourself on your own machine with GPG rather than handing us your passphrase.

Yes. Every save leaves a version behind, and the last 20 are kept; beyond that, the oldest are removed. The Versions button in the editor lists them, with the difference against the current text and a button to restore.

Restoring erases nothing: the version that was current at the moment you restore enters the history in turn, so you can step back a second time.

If the same note is open in two places, the editor refuses to overwrite the newer text: it warns you that the note was changed elsewhere and suspends autosave. Reload the page to start again from the up to date version.

An encrypted note has no history: since its content is unreadable to us, we cannot compare two states of it.

It goes to the trash and stays there for 30 days. During that time you can restore it in one click, and every note in the trash shows how many days it has left.

After that it is deleted for good, by an automatic cleanup that runs once a day. You can also force that deletion yourself from the trash, without waiting.

A permanent deletion takes the note's version history with it. At that point there is nothing left to restore, neither on your side nor on ours.

Deleting a folder deletes no note: the ones it held simply move back to No folder.

A note holds up to 1 MB of text, which is far more than a long handwritten document. Beyond that, saving is refused and the editor tells you so, without losing what you see on screen.

A free account holds 100 notes, a Pro Account 100,000. Notes in the trash do not count towards that total: you never have to empty a trash in order to create a note.

Note folders are limited to 200 per account.

These three actions do not replace one another.

Locking makes the note read only. It stays visible and readable, but the editor refuses any change until you unlock it. This protects a note you consult often against an accidental keystroke.

Archiving removes it from the list and from search results, without deleting it. It remains reachable through the archived notes view, and can be unarchived at any time. This files away a note that has served its purpose and that you no longer want to scroll past.

The heart marks a note as a favourite. Only notes marked with a heart can then be added to your Favourites menu, so you can open them in one click from any page.

Yes, through an integration token. From Integrations, create a token and tick the Notes permission: the tool holding it can then create, read, edit and delete your notes, and manage your note folders.

A token is limited to the permissions you grant it, and can be revoked at any time from the same page. Only tick Notes if the tool needs it.

The rules described on this page apply to a token too: same quotas, same trash, same history. An encrypted note stays encrypted, a token does not hold your passphrase.