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Editing, autosave, and deleting notes

How editing and saving work, how to rename a note, and what happens when you delete one.

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Written by Junan Pang

Editing

Both My notes and Enhanced are ordinary rich-text editors. Headings, bullets, and basic formatting all work. Type anywhere, any time: during the meeting, or a week later.

Formatting

Select any text and a small formatting bar appears with Bold, Italic, Underline, and bullet list. The keyboard shortcuts work too: ⌘B, ⌘I, ⌘U. The notepad stays clean and chrome-free until you select something, so it never gets in the way while you type. A brand new note shows a single hint line, "Jot rough notes. Select text to format.", which disappears as soon as you start writing.

Autosave

There is no save button. Amlin saves continuously as you type, including the title. Notes survive a crash, a force-quit, and a restart. If you quit mid-sentence, the sentence is there when you come back.

Renaming

Click the title at the top of the note and type. Notes opened from a calendar event are pre-titled with the event name; ad-hoc notes start as "Untitled meeting" or a timestamped "Call · 2:15 PM".

Moving a note to a folder

⋯ → Folder in the note header, or right-click the note in the sidebar. See Folders.

Deleting a note

⋯ → 🗑 Delete, or right-click it in the sidebar.

Amlin asks for confirmation, and it's honest about the scope: deleting removes the note and its transcript from all of your devices, and it can't be undone. If a capture is running for that note, it's stopped first (with no enhancement).

If you just want a note out of the way, move it to a folder rather than deleting it. Deletion is for things you actually want gone.

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