Notes and checklists

A note in Listr is a place to keep a thought before deciding where it belongs. You can edit it in the list, duplicate it or place its linked content on a canvas. Checklists also appear under Notes, with tick boxes rather than due dates or assignments.

Write a note#

Choose Listr in the adaptive panel, type in Capture a thought or paste a link, then press Enter or Add to list. Use Shift+Enter for additional lines.

The first non-empty line becomes the note’s title. The full text is kept as its body. For example, “Village colours” on the first line and “Try a darker roof” on the next gives you a named note with that reminder underneath.

The capture and edit flow keeps up to 300 characters for the title and 20,000 for the body. Keep longer material in separate notes rather than depending on text beyond those bounds.

The same input searches while you type. If the list goes empty and says Nothing in your list matches that. Press Enter to keep what you typed as a note., Enter saves the text. Press Escape to clear a search without making a new note.

Edit an entry in place#

Double-click a note, a link snippet or a Glob Capture entry in Listr, or focus its row and press Enter. The row opens into a Title box and a Text box, in place. You can also right-click and choose Open in editor. Checklists and colour palettes open with just their title; their ticks and colours are changed on the row.

• Save applies the change. Ctrl+Enter, or Command+Enter on a Mac, does the same, and so does clicking anywhere outside the row.
• Cancel or Escape leaves the previous text.
• Enter in the title moves you to the text box.
• A note cannot be saved with both boxes empty. Use the row's Delete action if you want to remove the entry.

The change reaches the entry's node too, so every place it is shown has the new words. For an entry captured from a web page, the page address and the capture details stay as they were: only the words change. Saved nodes and tracks take their title from the node or song itself, so they do not open this way.

A note's title is normally the first line of its text, and the list avoids repeating it as the preview. If you change the title, the first line follows it.

Copy, duplicate and delete#

Copy copies the note’s text. Duplicate makes a separate item with its own content. This is useful when you want two independent versions of an idea.

Delete removes the entry from your list. For a linked note that still has a placement elsewhere, removing the Listr entry does not necessarily remove that placed content. Review its canvas uses separately when you want to remove the item everywhere you use it.

Put a note on a canvas#

Drag the row onto a canvas, or choose Add to canvas. The note stays in Listr and gains a linked placement when the action succeeds.

Editing that linked item’s body, title, colour or picture changes the item seen through its other placements as well. Use Duplicate before placing it when you want an independent variation.

A private item being placed into a shared room can require a share first. If the app asks you to Share it, the placement has not silently published the note for you.

Links and passages#

A bare HTTP or HTTPS address in the capture bar creates a snippet, which appears under Snippets. To keep a passage with a link, put the address on the first line and your passage beneath it.

A snippet shows its source domain and any saved quote. Open link opens its address. Copy keeps the address and quote together. A missing preview image does not remove the saved link; use its menu to open the destination.

Existing checklists#

When a checklist is in your list, each box toggles its item between done and not done. Completed text is struck through. Right-click an item for Mark done or Mark not done, Copy text, and Remove from checklist where offered.

Copying the whole checklist produces text with checkbox markers, preserving which items are ticked. Duplicate keeps an independent checklist with the same current items and ticks. The checklist limits are 200 items, each up to 500 characters.

The current Listr capture bar creates ordinary notes and snippets. It does not expose a checklist-creation or voice-recording button. Existing checklist rows remain usable through their tick controls and menus.

A chat line saved with Save to Listr also appears as a note. Wall and Feed saves are snippets with source links. Broader Search finds this Listr text in its Notes tab; the Command+K or Ctrl+K box uses pin notes for its own Notes group.

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