Finding your way
n0te doesn’t have a sidebar or a file tree. You get around by name: the switcher, the palette, links and history.
The palette
ctrl k (or :) opens the palette over the note. It lists three kinds of things:
- Notes in your vault. With nothing typed, the most recently changed ones.
- In this note: its headings, once you type.
- Commands, each with its key, so the palette doubles as a reminder of what n0te can do.
Matching is fuzzy and favours letters at the start of words and in the file name. The best match is selected wherever it is in the list, so typing uncheck picks the command even if a note matches too.
| Key | What it does |
|---|---|
↓ ↑, tab shift tab, ctrl n ctrl p | move |
Enter | open or run |
esc | close |
ctrl p opens the palette with notes only, which is the switcher. It’s also what super n and a bare n0 show.
If no note has exactly the name you typed, a Create note row follows the notes. See New notes and templates.
The outline
tab opens the palette with this note’s headings, indented by level. Type to narrow, Enter to jump. The palette’s command is Outline: jump to a heading.
Find in a note
/ opens the find bar. Type, and every match lights up; the status line counts them (3 of 12). Enter closes the bar and keeps the matches, n and N step forward and back, and esc clears them.
There’s no search across the vault. For that, use Obsidian, or rg in a terminal and open the result with n0 file:line.
Links
| click a link | follow it |
Enter on a block that’s only a link | follow it |
gd | follow the first link in the block |
- Wikilinks resolve the way Obsidian resolves them: a bare name finds the note anywhere in the vault, preferring one next to the current note, then the shortest path.
[[Note#Heading]]opens at the heading,[[#Heading]]jumps within this note, and[[Note|text]]shows its text. - Links to notes that don’t exist are dimmed. Following one creates the note, as in Obsidian.
- Markdown links to local notes, like
[the plan](Launch%20plan.md), work like wikilinks,#headingincluded. - Web, mail and
obsidian://links open in their app on the first click. Any other kind (file:, links into other apps) first shows where it goes in the status line, and opens on a second click within five seconds. Link text can hide where a link really goes; this way you always see it before anything runs.
Back and forward
Following a link opens the note in the same window. ctrl o goes back and ctrl i goes forward, each to the place you were, not just the note. So do alt ← and alt → and the mouse’s back and forward buttons.
Windows
Each window shows one note, and its history. From the command line, a note that’s already open isn’t opened twice: n0 NOTE and n0 --today bring its window forward instead. Inside a window, the switcher, the palette and links open the note in that window.
Notes open as regular windows that tile like any other, with your Omarchy window rules and transparency.