Writing content

• Paste from a web page or a document and the formatting the editor knows (headings, lists, links, tables and the like) comes along. Anything else is dropped.
• Paste Markdown text and it turns into formatted content.
• Copy from the editor and you get Markdown.
• HTML tags typed into content show as plain text.

Bold, Italic, Underline, Heading (Heading 1 to 3, or Normal text), Align left, Align center, Align right, Image, Link, Bulleted list, Numbered list, Code block, Collapsible section and Table. On narrower windows some buttons hide; the slash menu still offers those blocks.

Markdown has no underline, so underlining shows while you edit and is gone once the thing saves.

• 🎙 Dictate: speak your text (below).
• Checklist: turn the current line into a checklist item, or back.
• Attach a file: add a file (see Links, images and files).

Type / to open a menu of blocks. Keep typing to filter it, use ↑ ↓ to choose and Enter to insert.

Click the mic on the rail, or press Ctrl Alt D (⌃ ⌥ D on a Mac), and talk. Your words appear in gray at the cursor and drop into the text when you pause. Press again, or the Stop dictation pill, to stop. Saving waits until the last words arrive (Finishing dictation…).

With an OpenAI key saved under Settings › AI Provider (the AI key or the separate OpenAI key for dictation), dictation uses OpenAI's transcription; otherwise it uses your browser's speech recognition. The comment box, the answer box for an agent's question and checklist rows have a mic too.

The slash menu's Table inserts a 3 by 3 table with a header row. The toolbar's Table button opens Manage Table: Insert Table, and for the table the cursor is in, Add Column Before, Add Column After, Delete Column, Add Row Before, Add Row After, Delete Row, Delete Table, Split Cell and the header toggles. A wide table scrolls sideways on the page.

Put the language after the opening fence (```python) and the editor colors the code. On the page, every code block has a copy button that copies its text.

Select text and click Link, then paste the address. Clearing the address removes the link. Typed or pasted web addresses become links on their own. On the page, links open in a new tab.

• Click Image in the toolbar. In Insert Image, the Upload tab takes a JPG, PNG, SVG or WebP file up to 3 MB; the URL tab takes a web address.
• Or paste an image, or drag image files into the editor, and they upload in place.
• The slash menu's Image asks for a web address.

Uploaded images count toward your storage. On the page an image shows at its own size, up to the width of the card.

1. Open the thing and choose Add Attachment in its ⋮ menu (or the paperclip on the editor's rail).
2. Give it a Name, pick an emoji if you like, and choose a File (any type, up to 25 MB) or a URL. Add Tags if you want.
3. Click Done. The attachment appears as a new sub-thing.

While creating a new thing, Attach a file on the rail uploads the file straight into it and makes the thing an attachment. An attachment shows a file card with the file's type, its name, Open and Save, and its tile carries 📎.

Links of the form youtube.com/watch?v=…, youtu.be/… or youtube.com/embed/… play in an embedded player. The slash menu's YouTube asks for the link.

Links to google.com/maps or maps.google.com that name a place, a search or coordinates show as an embedded map. Short share links (maps.app.goo.gl) stay ordinary links, so copy the full address from the browser instead.

Use Align center or Align right on a paragraph or heading. In Markdown, wrap blocks in a fence: a line :::center (or :::right), the blocks, then a line :::. Left is the default and needs no fence.

Insert one with Collapsible section from the slash menu or the toolbar. In the editor it stays open, with a Section title box and a Starts open checkbox. On the page, click its title to open or close it.

In Markdown: a line :::details Title, the section's content, then a line :::. It starts closed; :::details+ Title starts open. A section inside another takes one more colon on the outer fence (::::details). Without a title it reads Details.

Auto-save is on to begin with. Edits to an existing thing save a moment after you stop typing. The button at the top right of the card shows Auto-save on, Saving…, Saved or Save failed; click it (Done editing) to save anything left and stop editing. Closing the thing waits for a save in progress.

Turn it off under Settings › Editor › Auto-save.

With auto-save off, and always for a brand-new thing, click 💾 under the fields or press Ctrl/⌘ Enter. A long thing also gets a 💾 in the header. If you leave with unsaved changes, Unsaved Changes asks whether to Save or Discard.

In the ⋮ menu, Copy as Markdown copies the thing to your clipboard and Download .md saves it as a file. The export holds the thing and every sub-thing beneath it, each as a heading with its emoji and name, then its content, its marks and its comments.