Organizing Notes

Beyond folders, every note carries a small set of structured metadata called properties — open the properties panel for the current note with Cmd+P.

Built-in properties

Property	Type	What it does
pinned	boolean	Keeps the note at the top of your home screen and search results
locked	boolean	Makes the editor read-only until you unlock it again
author	text	Free-text author field
draft	boolean	Marks a note as a draft

Every note also has built-in tags and aliases:

• Tags categorize a note (e.g. recipe, cooking) so you can filter or search by topic — try adding one, then finding it with the tag: search command (see Search & Colon Commands).
• Aliases are alternate names a note can also be found and linked by, in search and in [[wikilinks]] — see Linking Notes for how they affect search ranking and backlinks.

Custom properties

Beyond the built-ins, you can define your own properties, of any type, reusable across every note in the vault:

Type	Use it for
Text	Plain free text
Number	Anything you want to sort by, like priority
Boolean	A true/false checkbox
Date	A field like dueDate, separate from the note’s built-in creation date
List	A second, scoped set of tags for just the notes that need it — book notes might get a genre list

Create one from the properties panel (Cmd+P) → add a new property → pick its type. Once created, it’s available on any note going forward — no redefining it each time.

Worked example: add a numeric priority property to a folder of project notes, then browse them ranked by importance with sort: priority (see Search & Colon Commands).

Moving and deleting many notes at once

The batch: (b:) search command selects multiple notes, then moves or deletes all of them in one action — add notes to the selection with Enter, then Cmd+Enter to choose Delete or Move once you’re done.

If you’d rather stay fully on the keyboard, turning off the taskbar switches the sidebar into a dedicated batch-selection mode — see Workspace: Tabs & Splits for the full keyboard-only sidebar walkthrough.