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Notes & stickies

Notes and stickies in OrientME

Notes is your notebook in OrientME — meeting notes, reference material, half-formed ideas. It has two modes you switch between at the top of the list: Notes (full document editor) and Stickies (a freeform canvas of sticky notes). You’ll find it under Personal → Notes.

Notes list on the left, the editor open on the right

Create a note​

Click New note to open the template picker, then choose a starting point:

  • Blank note — start from scratch
  • Meeting notes — attendees, agenda, notes, and action items
  • Project brief — overview, goals, and milestones
  • Research notes — topic, findings, and sources

Any templates you’ve saved appear here too. To make one, open a note and choose Save as template from the ⋯ menu.

The editor​

The editor is full rich text. The formatting toolbar covers headings, bold, italic, strikethrough, inline code and links, bullet/numbered/task lists, quotes and code blocks, text alignment, text color and highlight, tables, and subscript/superscript.

tip

Type / anywhere in a note to open the block menu — headings, lists, quotes, code, a divider, a table, and four callout styles (info, tip, warning, note). Press Ctrl/Cmd+K to add a link.

Each note can carry an icon, a location, a tag, and a pin (to keep it at the top of the list). The ⋯ menu adds duplicate, save as template, copy as Markdown, and print / export PDF. A focus mode hides everything but the page. Below the body you can add attachments and related items (see Related items).

Notes save automatically as you type — there’s no save button. The footer shows your word count and estimated reading time.

Tag notes for grouping (manage colors in the tags panel), filter the list by tag, sort by modified/created/A–Z, and search across titles and body text. List rows show a short content snippet so you can recognize a note at a glance.

Stickies​

Switch to Stickies for a visual board of quick notes — reminders, ideas, scraps you’ll deal with later. Add a sticky, then drag it to position and drag its corner to resize.

A wall of colored sticky notes on the freeform Stickies canvas

Click a sticky’s color dot to style it — color, handwriting-style font, size, an optional due date, and a tag. You can layer stickies front-to-back, and convert any sticky into a full note when it outgrows the canvas. Stickies autosave too.

Reading linked notes​

When a note is linked from somewhere else — a routine’s reference note, a trip, a task — clicking it opens a quick read-only pop-up with an Open in Notes button, so you can read without losing your place.