Main window
Top row: Menu options
Next row: Buttons and search bar
Left window pane: Note header, Note title, Note content
Keyboard shortcut: Ctrl-N
This option opens the New entry dialog box for creating a new note. This note is inserted numerically next in the note database regardless of what note is displayed at the time the new note is added.
Keyboard shortcut: Ctrl-I
This option behaves identically to the New note (Ctrl-N) option. One additional operation is performed: In the main window, when a given note is open, calling the New note sequence operation will then save the newly made note in the note sequence tree of the note open at the time.
Keyboard shortcut: Ctrl-Alt-N
This option immediately creates a new note at the end of the line up with autogenerated note content (using whatever is on the clipboard at the time of creation), and sets the main window interface to the newly created note view. If data that is not text is found on the clipboard, the quick note function will silently fail to do anything. See Issue 399.
Keyboard shortcut: Ctrl-Shift-N
This option appears to operate identically to the Quick note (Ctrl-Alt-N) function. This may be a bug. See Issue 399.
Keyboard shortcut: Ctrl-O
This option prompts the user to select another ZKN3 database file for opening in the interface. Because this switches databases, it will prompt the user to save any pending changes in the currently opened database before opening the newly selected one.
This option provides a list of recently opened ZKN3 databases from which the user may select a file for opening.
Keyboard shortcut: Ctrl-S
This option saves the currently opened database to disk. If the database was newly created, this will prompt the user for a file location to which it may be saved.
Keyboard shortcut: Ctrl-Shift-S
This option creates a copy of the currently opened database and prompts the user for a file location to which it may be saved. Afterwards, the program is set to use the newly made database file.
This option creates a new Outliner and prompts the user for the new outline's name. If an outline is already open, after providing the new outline name the outliner window will switch to the new outline view.
This option creates a new Zettelkasten database file. It will instantly switch to an empty interface, and will not allow the new database file to be saved until adding a change that needs to be saved.
Keyboard shortcut: Ctrl-Shift-I
This option allows for importing notes from files. Different file types are available for import:
Keyboard shortcut: Ctrl-Shift-E
This option allows for exporting notes to files. The user first receives a prompt asking whether to export all notes or selected notes given by numerical value.
This displays various statistics about the currently opened database file, the file's location, as well as allowing the user to set the folders for attachments and images.
Keyboard shortcut: Ctrl-Q
This will exit the program. If there is unsaved data, the user will be given a prompt as to whether or not they want to save the changes.
Keyboard shortcut: Ctrl-E
This will bring up the Note entry window for the note currently displayed in the main window.
Keyboard shortcut: Ctrl-Shift-Delete
This will bring up a prompt asking the user if they would like to delete the note currently displayed in the main window. Afterward the main window will display the numerically next note if available.
This will bring up a prompt asking the user if they would like to delete the keyword currently selected from the note currently displayed in the main window. Note that the same functionality is available using the Delete key.
Keyboard shortcut: Ctrl-C
Keyboard shortcut: Ctrl-Shift-C
Keyboard shortcut: Ctrl-V
Keyboard shortcut: Ctrl-A
Keyboard shortcut: Ctrl-Shift-K
This option adds any text that is selected in the note area of the main window, including note header, title, and content, to the keywords of the currently displayed note in the main window. Any special formatting or line breaks are stripped out for the keyword addition.
Keyboard shortcut: Ctrl-Shift-U
This option sets the first line of text in the note content as the title of the currently displayed note in the main window. If a title already exists, it will be overwritten by the first line of text. Any special formatting will be stripped out for the title addition.
Keyboard shortcut: Ctrl-Alt-U
This option sets the first line of text in the note content as the title of the currently displayed note in the main window. If a title already exists, it will be overwritten by the first line of text. Any special formatting or line breaks will be stripped out for the title addition.
Keyboard shortcut: Ctrl-Alt-L
This option brings up a prompt for the user to enter the numbers of notes to add as cross references. These then appear in the note header and Links areas. If deleted notes are included in the range given to the prompt, a warning will alert the user that this is the case but will still include the numbers in the cross references.
Keyboard shortcut: Ctrl-Alt-I
This option brings up a prompt for the user to enter the numbers of notes to add as sequences. Each note will be shown as top level sequences, not with each note including nesting at a lower level from the preceding note. In the example shown below, notes 4,10-12 were submitted with Ctrl-Alt-I:
Keyboard shortcut: Ctrl-B
This option brings up a prompt to add the currently displayed note in the main window to the bookmark list. This may be done once per note. The user will be given the ability to choose existing categories from a dropdown or add a new category which may then be selected. A comment may be added in the prompt for the bookmark.
Keyboard shortcut: F9
This option adds the current note to an outliner-only clipboard and brings up the outliner, prompting the user to first select a location from the outline tree and then the paste function (Ctrl-V) may be called to insert the note.
This option allows the user to search through the note database (it will not search outline-only content). The search will bring up the results in a new window.
This option allows the user to search through the note database to replace expressions (it will not search outline-only content). It will give a notification of the statistics of the replacement.
This option allows the user to search through the note database according to the criteria selected. The search will bring up the results in a new window.
After selecting a keyword(s) from the note currently displayed in the main window, this option allows the user to search through the note database according to the criteria selected. The search will bring up the results in a new window.
Goto first note Keyboard shortcut: Ctrl-Shift-Minus
Goto previous note Keyboard shortcut: Ctrl-Minus
Displays the next note Keyboard shortcut: Ctrl-Plus
Goto last note Keyboard shortcut: Ctrl-Shift-Plus
Show random note Keyboard shortcut: Ctrl-Number Sign
Show next note in history Keyboard shortcut: Alt-Left
Show previous note in history Keyboard shortcut: Alt-Right
Goto note Keyboard shortcut: Ctrl-G (This one places the cursor in the note number box of the main window for user entry)
Links Keyboard shortcut: Ctrl-F1
Note sequences Keyboard shortcut: Ctrl-F2
Keywords Keyboard shortcut: Ctrl-F3
Authors Keyboard shortcut: Ctrl-F4
Titles Keyboard shortcut: Ctrl-F5
Keyword-Cluster Keyboard shortcut: Ctrl-F6
Bookmarks Keyboard shortcut: Ctrl-F7
Attachments Keyboard shortcut: Ctrl-F8
When a note is overlayed but not fully displayed, as when following a note in a note sequence with a single click, then this option will remove the overlay and again display the original note.
Keyboard shortcut: F7
This seems to not do anything. This may be a bug. See Issue 401.
When text is associated with a keyword, this option when toggled on will highlight the text in the main window note content view when the corresponding keyword is selected from the list. This may glitch and not allow disabling of the highlighting until the program is restarted. See Issue 401.
Only one of each window type can be open at a given time.
Searchresults Keyboard shortcut: F3
Outliner Keyboard shortcut: F4
Edit window Keyboard shortcut: F11 (Note that this window for editing a note must first be opened and in the background/minimized in order for this function to work)
Currently this menu only appears when a keyword-based link is included in a note. This may be a bug. See Issue 404.
This menu appears at the end of the list of menus when the Note Sequences tab of the main window is active.
When selecting a non-top-level item in a note sequence tree, this option is available and will allow the user to remove the branch and all sub-levels branching from it.
When selecting a non-top-level item in a note sequence tree, this option is available and will allow the user to add the note selected as a cross reference in the original note's header.
When selecting a non-top-level item in a note sequence tree, this option is available and will allow the user to add the note selected as a bookmark. As a bookmark can only be added once to the bookmarks list, if the selected note is chosen to be added to the bookmarks but already exists as a bookmark, the addition will not change the preexisting bookmark neither in category nor in comment.
When selecting a non-top-level item in a note sequence tree, this option is available and will allow the user to add the note selected to the outliner. A prompt will ask the user to select the location at which the note should be inserted.
This option will bring up the search results for notes which serve as top-level notes in a note sequence.
This option will bring up a prompt for the export of the selected note and all sub-level notes.
This option will bring up the search results containing the selected note and all sub-level notes.
This option will toggle the display of note numbers in the note sequence tree.
This option allows for the setting of whether to display all note sequence levels or truncate it to within a range of 1 to 5 levels.
This menu appears at the end of the list of menus when the Keywords tab of the main window is active.
This menu appears at the end of the list of menus when the Authors tab of the main window is active.
This menu appears at the end of the list of menus when the Titles tab of the main window is active.
This menu appears at the end of the list of menus when the Cluster tab of the main window is active.
This menu appears at the end of the list of menus when the Bookmarks tab of the main window is active.
This menu appears at the end of the list of menus when the Attachments tab of the main window is active.
The upper pane shows links based on keyword overlap. When nonzero, the percentage of keywords of the note currently displayed in the main window that are found in every other note in the database is calculated and displayed as the Relevance metric. These links are made automatically by the program.
The lower pane shows explicit cross reference links made by the user. It does not include note sequence connections.
This area shows how keywords from all notes in the database intersect, regardless of which note is currently displayed in the main window. Every keyword is shown as a top level entry, and below it are all keywords ever present in the same note with the selected keyword. To work only with keywords present in the note currently displayed in the main window, there is a toggle at the bottom of the Cluster tab. This seems to be glitched with showing duplicate top-level entries. See Issue 405.
Currently it seems this is not automatically repopulated when new keywords are added, and needs to be manually repopulated by restarting the program or toggling the Note's cluster-keywords only option. This may be a bug. See Issue 402.
