Main window

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.