Notesnook Help

Helping you discover everything you can do with Notesnook

Go to docs

Create your first note

Download Notesnook

Try “import from Evernote”, “app lock”, or “why is my note not syncing”.

Organize your notes

Notebooks, tags, colors, favorites, pins and the side menu — pick the structure that fits your work.

Start with notebooks

Write and format

The editor toolbar, markdown shortcuts, tables and task lists, on every platform.

Open the editor guide

Bring your notes over

Import from Evernote, Google Keep, Obsidian, Joplin, Simplenote and plain markdown or HTML files.

Import your notes

Keep your notes safe

Backups, restore, the private vault, app lock and how your data is encrypted end-to-end.

Back up your notes

Recover your account

What to do when you forget your password, and what your recovery key protects.

Recover an account

Publish with Monographs

Share a note as a link — optionally encrypted with a password only your reader knows.

Publish a note

Notesnook is a free and open source note taking app focused on user privacy and ease of use. Everything is encrypted on your device with XChaCha20-Poly1305 and Argon2 before it ever leaves it — which also means nobody at Notesnook can read your notes, or recover them for you.

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