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Create a note where you click

Double-click an empty part of a BaseHalf canvas and choose New Note. A Markdown file appears where you clicked, ready to type.

I needed a short opener for a Monday review of the posts that went up this week, and I wanted it in a folder of its own.

I opened that empty folder in BaseHalf 0.7.0. The canvas had no cards yet, only a hint in the middle that said "No content cards yet," with shortcuts to create a note or import files.

An empty BaseHalf canvas titled 2026-11-14-am-create-note, with a "No content cards yet" hint and the sidebar showing only the folder name.

I double-clicked an empty part of the canvas, to the left of that hint. A menu opened at that spot: New Note, New Image, New Video, New Audio, New Folder, Paste, and Import Files....

The Create menu on the empty canvas, listing New Note, New Image, New Video, New Audio, New Folder, Paste, and Import Files..., opened where the canvas was double-clicked.

I chose New Note. A Markdown file named untitled.md appeared at the same place, already open for typing, with a Title placeholder on the card. The file was also listed in the sidebar.

A new untitled.md note on the canvas at the click location, open for typing with a Title placeholder, and the same file listed in the sidebar.

I typed the opener: a heading, then the order of the check, what to confirm on each page, and where to write the result. I pressed Escape to finish. The note stayed on the canvas, rendered, and the file in the folder was Monday review opener.md.

The finished Monday review opener note on the canvas, with the heading and three short paragraphs visible, and Monday review opener.md listed in the sidebar.

The canvas and cards docs describe this create menu. You can also right-click an empty part of the canvas, or use the Create button, and choose the same items. The card appears where you double-clicked. New Folder makes untitled folder at once. There is no New File: other files are made in the sidebar.

This is not the same as dropping a connection onto empty canvas to create a note that already lists a source as its upstream, and it is not the same as dropping or importing files that already exist.