Moving, resizing, and collapsing notes
Where to grab a note, the resize circle, and the two right-click menus.
Moving a note
Drag a note by its title bar, by the empty margins beside the text, or by any of its four edges. Every edge carries a narrow grab strip (about eight points), and your cursor turns into an open hand when you are on one. Scroll far enough that the title leaves the top of the note and a strip appears up there to drag by instead.
The resize circle
Hover near a note’s bottom-right corner and a small dot fades in. Drag it to resize; the top edge stays put, so the note grows and shrinks downward.
The corner has two more uses:
- Drag the corner all the way up into the title bar and the note collapses into just its title bar. The dot goes away while a note is collapsed, so click the title bar to bring the note (and the dot) back.
- Right-click the circle for the arrange menu: Stack Open Notes, Arrange Visible Notes, Restore Previous Layout, and Save Current Layout…
Collapsing
- Double-click the title bar (beside the title, not on the text itself) and the note folds into its title bar. A single click expands it again. Double-clicking the title text renames instead. On a note that lives in a stack the same double-click compresses the pile, which is the stack’s version of the same idea.
- The Collapse chip in the hover rail tucks the note away as a bubble in the Spring instead. With the Spring switched off the same chip peeks the note instead. More on both in Stacks, the Spring, and the Fan.
Right-click the title bar
The title bar has its own menu: Rename…, a Title Bar submenu (show or hide the title and divider, pin the title, set its alignment, and pick from eight close-button styles), plus Favorite , Set Reminder… , and Lock Note . Stack Open Notes joins the list as soon as a second note is open. On a stacked note the title is stack context rather than a rename surface, so Rename… steps aside and the stack tools take its place: Save as Folder… (offered only when no existing folder already holds exactly that set of notes), Color Notes (including painting the whole pile as a spectrum), Remove from Stack, and Unstack Notes.
Right-click the body
Right-clicking the body of a note opens the note settings panel, the same one the settings gear opens: color and themes, text and opacity, the insert carousel, and the window behaviors Glue to Desktop, Float on Top, and Show on All Desktops. Note Info in that panel gives you the note’s last edit, whether it is locked or favorited, the folder it belongs to, how much space it takes up, and its word and character counts, plus a list of attachments if the note has any.
Right-click something specific and you get that thing’s own menu instead of the panel. Code blocks, file chips, links, and selected text each have one.
Keeping a note where you put it
Glue to Desktop drops the note behind your other windows, so it settles into the background instead of sitting over your work. Float on Top does the opposite: the note stays above every window. Show on All Desktops makes it follow you across Spaces.