Daily notes, quick capture and tray

Today's note is one .md per day in the Daily Notes folder — a single folder for all of LightNote, set in Settings → Notes & writing. From the tray menu: Today's note opens the note for the day; Quick capture… (Ctrl+Alt+N, a global Windows shortcut — or middle-click the tray icon) opens a small window where you type and press Ctrl+Enter: the text becomes a timestamped bullet in today's note, written straight to disk, without opening an editor window. Text with several lines goes whole into the same item: blank lines and indentation (code, sublists) stay as you wrote them.

The tray menu also lists the open windows and the recent workspaces, and carries the power toggles: Keep computer awake and Keep screen on (handy for long tasks; LightNote already holds power by itself while running one-shot AI, Blocks cells or SQL scripts). The launcher (start window) has search, double-click to open, and a context menu to pin to top, Show in Explorer (opens the parent folder with the workspace selected), Copy path or remove from the list.

Actions that apply to the whole of LightNote — not just to the window you are in — live in the General menu (☰ General, or the button with the app icon in the activity bar), which has exactly the same shape as the tray menu: at the root Today's note, Quick capture and Calendar; then the submenus Capture (quick task, record audio, resurface old notes, sticky notes), Open (launcher, open workspace, open standalone file, standalone files) and Power; and at the end General settings. The rule is simple: whatever is in the tray menu is in the General menu — and only there. Hovering an item shows the note “general feature: applies to the whole of LightNote, in any window”.

Where a capture goes. Daily notes and quick tasks have a single, predictable destination: the folder set in Settings → Notes & writing and the board set in Settings → General, valid in any window. On the first capture, if nothing is set, LightNote asks where to keep it and stores your answer — instead of sending you off to find the setting. A workspace that needs its own diary (a client under confidentiality, a log that must live in the repository) can claim the captures made in that window under Workspace Settings → Captures; the tray and the global shortcuts keep writing to the general destination. The confirmation always names where the text went.

The tray menu is deliberately short: the root holds the open windows and the three everyday actions — Today's note, Quick capture and Calendar. Everything else lives in the same submenus as the General menu: Capture, Open (which in the tray also carries the list of recent workspaces), AI (AI sessions and ask your notes — in a window that is the full AI menu) and Power. Settings and quit close the menu.