Tutorials

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Open the folder with your notes from the start screen and browse the tree.

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Create a note, write a heading and tasks, and insert a block from the / menu.

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Link one note to another with [[, follow the link and see the connections in the graph.

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Jot down an idea from anywhere with Ctrl+Alt+N, straight into today's note.

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Find a word across all your notes and open the note at the right spot.

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Find any file or command by name, without digging through menus.

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Bring a Notion export into your notebook, with the links between pages working.

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Get to know the activity bar buttons and the sidebar tabs.

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Download an AI model that runs on your computer, with Set up AI.

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Connect a cloud AI provider with your API key.

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Use an AI CLI you already have, like Claude Code, as the default AI.

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Ask a question and get an answer drawn from your own notes.

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Open Claude Code from the AI button, ask for a change and review what it did.

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Let an AI agent work in a copy of the project, review what it did and bring it into your files.

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Turn on the folder's MCP so an AI CLI can look things up in your notes.

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See what changed, save a version with a message and find it in the history.

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Let LightNote save versions by itself, and choose when.

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Bring a Git repository to your computer and open it in LightNote.

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Switch the window and your notes to dark, from Settings.

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Change the window layout and split the editor into two side-by-side panes.

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Get what you don't use out of the way, in Settings → Features.

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Change the note font and choose which view notes open in.

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Turn on only what your paper needs, like citations and numbering, in Settings → Features.

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Cite a source from your .bib file and see the citation and references in the folder's style.

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Label a figure and a table and refer to them in the text, with automatic numbering.

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Pick your paper's standard and see the page with margins, contents and references in the preview.

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Highlight a passage in a PDF paper and take your highlights into a note.

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Write a calculation with units ending in = and see the result, or why it doesn't add up.

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Write question-and-answer cards in a note and review them with spaced repetition.

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Open a CSV, build a chart and a pivot table, and query the data in SQL.

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Open a CSV as a table, filter a column, and see the result in a chart.

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See the same task board as a Kanban, as a table and as a schedule, and add a task.

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Build a saved query over your notes and see it as a table and as a board.

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Pick two files and see the differences line by line, side by side.

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Point out what matters in a screenshot with a rectangle, an arrow and text, and blur what must not show.

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Create a sticky note that floats over the desktop, with a checklist.

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Read, search and write your notes from the terminal, for scripts and automation.

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Write a diagram as text and see it drawn next to it, in five types.

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Write LaTeX formulas, chemical equations and SMILES molecules, and see them drawn next to the text.

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Highlight a warning in a colored box, add a footnote and mark up text, in formatted editing.

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Write a month or a week as text and see the calendar drawn in the note.

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Show the folder's QR code and take it to LightNote for Android.

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Set the Passphrase that encrypts the folder's secure data, and a PIN for everyday use.

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Bring your settings and history next to the program, so everything travels on a USB drive.