Edit a note on its card, or open it in Card Detail

A note is a Markdown file. You can change it right on its card, or open the same file in Card Detail.

Edit on the card

Double-click a note to edit it on its card. Press Escape or click elsewhere to finish.

Notes up to 128 KiB edit this way. A larger note does not open the quick editor. Its card shows: "This Markdown file is too large for quick edit. Double-click to open the full editor." That double-click opens Card Detail.

Open the note in Card Detail

Card Detail shows one file over the whole canvas area, with the sidebar and the Agent Area beside it. Escape closes it.

A selected note has an Expand button, which opens that note there. Quick Open and Quick Search also open any file in Card Detail, notes included.

A file other than a note opens Card Detail when you double-click its card, anywhere but its name. What you can do there depends on the file. This page is about notes.

Three views of the same note

A note in Card Detail has three views of the same file:

• Rich, the default, where you edit the note as formatted text.
• Source, where you edit the Markdown itself.
• Preview, where you read the rendered note.

They all work on one copy of the file, so switching between them never loses a change.

Code and other text files open in the Source view.

The canvas and cards docs describe both ways to work with a note, on the card and in Card Detail.