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Notel Dictionary

Getting started Updated 27 July 2026

Five words that appear throughout Notel’s menus.

Fan

The Fan shows previews of every note in a row. Scroll to move through them, click a card to open that note, or start typing while the Fan is open: your words land at the bottom of whichever note is centered.

Library

The Library is the full overview: every note at once, in a grid you can search, sort into folders, and organize.

Spring

Turn on the Spring and collapsed notes and stacks sit as bubbles at the edge of your screen. Click one to open it. You can tuck the Spring into a corner so it only appears when your cursor visits (“Show Spring on Mouseover” in Settings).

Stacks

Drag one note onto another and they snap into a stack: a pile that moves together. The stack has its own controls: a More menu for stack options (sorting, coloring the whole pile as a spectrum, gluing it to the desktop, saving it as a folder), a collapse control that folds the pile into a single bubble, and a close control that asks whether to close the stack or unstack the notes back onto your desktop.

Peek

Peek fades a chosen note in and out over whatever you are doing, with a keystroke, without leaving your current app.

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