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Getting Started

How to get started taking notes with Notetxt.

Notetxt is a note-taker web-app with a focus on minimalism and simplicity, letting you write down what's on your mind. It has no distractions, useful features, and a minimal user interface.

How To Get Started

To get started with taking notes using Notetxt, navigate to the Editor. This is where all of your note-taking will happen.

Once done, you should see the following:

A screenshot of the Editor in Notetxt.

As it says, you can start typing away and writing your notes. You can even write them in Markdown, which you can learn more about here.

Notetxt supports importing, exporting, and downloading notes in .txt and .md file formats. You can also export notes in one of the file formats into a .zip file.

However, there is more to the Editor than at first glance.

See the two buttons above the main content? Those buttons are for the Command Menu and the Note Manager.

Command Menu

You can access the Command Menu by pressing the button, or by pressing Ctrl+K. Once done, you should see the following:

A screenshot of the Command Menu in Notetxt.

From here, you can perform various actions, or visit various links.

Note Manager

You can access the Note Manager by pressing the button, or by going to the /editor URL with the query-string parameter ?manager=open. Once done, you should see the following:

A screenshot of the Note Manager in Notetxt.

From the Note Manager, you can perform various actions on your notes. For example, you can add tags to your notes, download your notes to your device, rename your notes to have a different name, and more.

Searching for notes in the Note Manager supports searching by note name or by tags appplied to a note.

Here is an example of how the Note Manager might look like for someone:

A screenshot of the Note Manager with 4 notes.

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