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The sidebar is the library. ⌘S (or ⌘, or the button in its header) hides and shows it; drag its edge to resize it. From top to bottom: The wordmark and the hide button. Search — ⌘F from anywhere. See search. Three numbered rows, so the left hand can reach them while the right is on the mouse: All Documents (⌘1), Timelapse (⌘2) and Today (⌘3) — today’s note, started for you if the day has none yet. The first also answers to ⌘P, the third to ⌘D. Under them, New Document (⌘N). The month — a calendar, one cell a day, each shaded by how much of that day’s note there is; a click opens the day’s wall. See the calendar below. Recents — the six documents you opened most recently, newest first. Starred — documents you have starred, from the right-click menu. The section appears when there is at least one. Documents — the folder tree, with a count. It starts collapsed on a fresh install, because All Documents is the better way to browse and the sidebar stays calmer without it; open it once and it stays open. Hovering a folder swaps its count for a + that makes a new document inside it; the arrows button in the header sorts everything by last edited, name, date created or your order. Folders remember whether they are expanded. The rows can be dragged into any order you like, and onto folders — see dragging below. Shelf — documents set aside, collapsed, with a count. Present only when something is on it. Tags — every #tag in the library with a count. Click one to filter; the tags page explains. The footer — the library folder’s name, the number of documents, and a gear for Settings. Hover any document row for a moment and the time it was last edited appears.

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The calendar

Under the three rows sits the month: a header with the month and year, the days of the week, and a cell for every day. A cell is shaded by how much of that day’s daily note there is — the notes the Timelapse shows, and nothing else — from a faint tint for a few lines to the full accent for a heavy day. A day without a note is bare, and a small dot under the number marks a day other documents were made or last edited on. Today is ringed in the accent; the day whose note is open, or whose wall is up, is ringed in the text colour. The shading is against your own habit, not the month’s biggest day: a day is full once it reaches your usual heavy day (the 85th percentile of your notes, and never less than 150 words), so a month of short notes does not read as a month of great ones, and one long day does not flatten the rest. The note you are writing is counted as you type, so today’s cell deepens under the writing. Click a day for its wall: All Documents narrowed to everything written that day, the day’s note at the top, with a capsule to open the note or start one — for any day, past or to come. Right-click for the note itself. Hover for the date, its note’s word count and how many other documents the day holds. ‹ and › turn the month; today comes back to this one. The header’s chevron folds the calendar away; it stays folded until you open it again. The calendar steps aside while a search or a tag filter is showing, to give the results the room; a day’s wall leaves it in place, so the next day is a click away.

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Dragging

Press on a document in the tree and move: the row lifts, with a shadow, and travels with the pointer; the rows it passes step aside to make a gap; let go and it glides into the gap. The order you make this way is the library’s Your order — the arrows button switches to it the moment you drag, and remembers it. It is one order for the whole library: each folder shows its part of it, and All Documents shows the whole of it as a wall, where the cards can be carried the same way. A new document goes to the top until you place it; a document moved to another folder keeps its place. The other sorts are still there in the arrows menu; choose one and the dragging order is kept for when you come back to it. ⌘Z takes a drag back, like any other change to the library. Carry a row over a folder — or over the Documents header, for the top level — and the folder lights up; let go and the document moves there. Carry it to the top or bottom edge of the tree and the tree scrolls. Only the rows of the tree and the Shelf can be dragged. Recents, Starred and search results have orders of their own.

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Right-click on a document

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Right-click on a folder

New Document Here, New Subfolder…, Rename…, Reveal in Finder, Shelve (the whole folder, structure intact), and Move to Trash.

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Undo

⌘Z undoes text edits first. When the editor has nothing left to undo, the same key reaches the library’s own history: a document you created by accident, a rename, a move, a duplicate, a trip to the Trash, a shelving. ⇧⌘Z redoes.

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Small things

Rows slide in and out as documents come and go — a new one, a shelved one, a search that ends. Counts tick between values rather than flashing. Stars spring in. The search field brightens while it has the keyboard. A carried row casts a shadow and the rows it passes spring aside; a folder it is held over glows. The month slides when it turns, and today’s cell deepens as the note grows.