Main window

Main window view

Top row: Menu options

Next row: Buttons and search bar

Left window pane: Note header, Note title, Note content

File menu

New note

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.

New note sequence

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.

Quick note

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.

Quick note with title

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.

Open

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.

Recent files

This option provides a list of recently opened ZKN3 databases from which the user may select a file for opening.

Save

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.

Save as

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.

Create new outliner

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.

Create new file

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.

Import

Keyboard shortcut: Ctrl-Shift-I

This option allows for importing notes from files. Different file types are available for import:

Export

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, then is presented with the export options:

As with the import option, different file types are available for export:

Information

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.

Quit

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.

Edit menu

Edit note

Keyboard shortcut: Ctrl-E

This will bring up the Note entry window for the note currently displayed in the main window.

Remove note

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.

Remove keyword

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.

Copy

Keyboard shortcut: Ctrl-C

Copy (plain text)

Keyboard shortcut: Ctrl-Shift-C

Paste

Keyboard shortcut: Ctrl-V

Select all

Keyboard shortcut: Ctrl-A

Add text selection to keywords

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.

Set first line as title

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.

Set selection as title

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.

Insert cross reference

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.

Insert note sequences

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:

Add bookmark

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.

Add to outliner

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.

Find menu

Find

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.

Replace

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.

Notes

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.

Note keywords

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.

Note navigation

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)

View menu

Main window tab focus

Links Keyboard shortcut: Ctrl-F1 Links Keyboard shortcut: Ctrl-F1 Links Keyboard shortcut: Ctrl-F1 Links Keyboard shortcut: Ctrl-F1 Links Keyboard shortcut: Ctrl-F1 Links Keyboard shortcut: Ctrl-F1 Links Keyboard shortcut: Ctrl-F1