A Tour of memrynote

A 60-second lap through the parts of the app you'll use most.

The Sidebar

The left sidebar is your primary navigation.

At the very top, the New button creates a note in one click. Click the chevron on its right to open the create menu — New Note, Journal, Calendar, Inbox, Tasks, or Tags — the same menu as the + on the tab bar. Some create-menu entries open ready to act: Calendar pops the new-event popover, Inbox focuses the capture field, and Tasks opens your default project with the quick-add input focused. Tags opens the tag hub, where your tag categories live.

Opening the same views from the sidebar sections below focuses the input too (Inbox capture, Tasks quick-add), but the sidebar's Calendar just opens the calendar without the new-event popover — the popover is reserved for the create menu and the tab-bar +.

Sections from top to bottom:

• Notes — recent and pinned notes
• Projects — task projects with their incomplete-task counts
• Tags — your tag vocabulary
• Bookmarks — notes you've marked
• Graph — visual map of how notes link
• Journal — opens today's entry
• Inbox — capture surface

Drag any section item to reorder, or right-click for a context menu.

The Notes tree loads 10,000 notes at a time, most recently modified first. If your vault holds more than that, a footer row under the tree says how many older notes it is not showing and offers Load more to pull in the next batch. Notes past the ceiling are never hidden silently — and they stay reachable through search either way.

At the bottom of the sidebar, a footer row holds three controls, left to right:

• Sync status — shows whether sync is connected; click it to open account settings (or to sign in when you're signed out).
• Vault name — click to open the vault menu: switch between vaults, Open vault to add another, or Sign in to sync.
• Settings (gear) — opens the settings modal, the same as ⌘+,.

Tabs

Across the top of the workspace. Every note, search, project view, journal entry, or settings panel opens in a tab.

• ⌘+T — new tab
• ⌘+W — close tab
• Ctrl+Tab — next tab

Pin a tab to keep it always at the front. Drag a tab to a pane edge to split the workspace.

The Editor

The main writing surface uses BlockNote — a block-based rich text editor.

• Type / to open the block menu
• Type [[ to link to another note (autocomplete suggests existing ones)
• Markdown shortcuts work inline: # , - , **bold**, `code`

Saves are automatic and debounced. Find-in-page is ⌘+F.

The Day Panel

A right-side panel with:

• A monthly calendar picker (heatmap of activity)
• Today's tasks (or whichever date you've focused)
• Schedule (events, journal preview)

Drag the left edge to resize; double-click to reset.

Inbox & Triage

A capture surface for links, files, voice memos, and other ephemera. The Triage view shows one item at a time as a card so you can process them quickly.

Tasks & Projects

Tasks live alongside notes. Two views — list and kanban. Group tasks under projects with custom statuses.

• Quick-add at the top of any task list
• Natural-language dates ("tomorrow", "next Friday") parse inline
• Bulk-select, drag, recurring tasks, subtasks — all there

Search

⌘+F opens the command palette. Type to search across notes, journal entries, tasks, and inbox items at once.

• 1 through 4 scope to a single source
• #tagname filters by tag
• If AI embeddings are enabled, results rank by meaning too

Settings

⌘+, opens the settings modal. The full reference lives at Settings Reference; the categories are:

• Workspace — Account, General, Templates, Editor, Journal, Tasks, Calendar
• Preferences — Appearance, Keyboard Shortcuts
• Services — AI, Integrations
• Data — Vault, Tags, Properties

Keyboard-First

memrynote is keyboard-friendly. The full shortcut list is at Keyboard Shortcuts. Highlights:

Shortcut	Action
⌘+N	New note
⌘+F	Search / command palette
⌘+,	Settings
⌘+B	Toggle sidebar
⌘+\	Split right
F	Hint mode (letter badges on every clickable thing)

Open the in-app shortcuts dialog with ⌘+/ for the live list.

What Next?

• Just want to use it? Open Notes and start writing.
• Want to know what's there? Browse the User Guide — every feature has its own page.
• Curious how it works? Read Architecture.