The goal is speed. Get the thought into a bullet before it slips. Organize later.
Every bullet is a block with its own identity. It can be tagged, referenced, dated, typed, moved, embedded — without ever losing its place in the outline.
Bullets are single-line. For longer thinking, indent children underneath. Workflowy-style.
Each day gets its own section automatically. Open the app and you land on today.
Don't think about where a thought belongs. Drop it on Today. Move it later if it matters — or never; for many people Today, plus a tag here and there, is the whole system.
Press Cmd+K (or tap the Capture pill in the corner). The palette opens on a launch pad — Capture a thought, Add a task, Add an event, Ask your vault — so you never need to remember a command. Pick a row and type.
If you'd rather type, / flips the palette from search to capture: /task buy milk >fri 2pm lands a task on Friday's page without leaving whatever you were doing; /event and /note work the same way, and More… reveals /write, /draw and /auto. A bare > opens a natural-language date box ("fri 2pm", "jul 22"). Enter captures and takes you nowhere — the thought is filed, you're still where you were.
(( to link to anythingType two open-parens ((. A picker opens with fuzzy search over every bullet in your vault.
Pick one. You've embedded a live reference. It updates if the target changes. Click it to jump.
References are bidirectional: the referenced bullet shows a backlink pointing back at you.
# followed by a word#idea, #followup, #book — anything. Tags are inline and searchable.
The Tags lens (under More in the strip) shows every tag you've used — click one to filter the vault down to bullets that carry it.
Every line is one of three kinds you'll use every day. Change a line's kind from its ••• menu (the three buttons at the top), or type / at the start of the line:
/note — the default plain bullet./task — a tracked task with status, due date, priority./event — for something that happened or is scheduled; timed events show on the Calendar.Behind More… in the same menus:
/draw — a freeform drawing canvas./ask — an inline AI prompt that answers as child bullets. See Ask AI.Typing a prefix (/dr) always finds every kind, whichever tier it sits in.
Drag a file onto the page, or click Attach at the bottom, and it becomes a bullet like any other. PDFs, images, Office documents, emails (.eml), and more are recognized automatically, and their text is pulled in so they're searchable. See Attachments for the full guide — including how to bring in emails from your mail app.
Click a bullet's circle, or press Cmd+., to zoom in. That bullet becomes the new top of the page.
Great for "I just want to think about this one thing for ten minutes."
Cmd+, zooms out. Cmd+' jumps back home.
#, ##, ### at the start of a bulletFor structuring long bullet trees. Headings are still bullets — they can have children, be moved, be referenced.