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Settings

Obsidian

Off. Pane keeps your notes in its own folder, , and never touches a vault. Turn it on to copy your notes into an Obsidian vault or keep them there.

Open vault in Obsidian

Keep the notes inside the vault instead

Moves every note file into the vault folder above and works from there. Obsidian then sees changes the moment you type, and edits you make in Obsidian show up here. Export is no longer needed. The originals are kept in Pane’s backups folder.

Labels

Name the tape colors to use them as labels, like Work, Home or a job number. The row above the wall shows one label at a time, and new notes started there get that label.

Today note

Files

Every note is one Markdown file. Notes live in . Shelved notes sit in its Shelf subfolder. A snapshot of the folder is kept once a day in backups, and any save that shrinks a note by more than half keeps the old copy in backups\overwrites. Earlier versions of each note are kept in backups\history, and pasted images in the notes folder’s attachments subfolder. Pane never deletes a note.

Window

Tour

A one-minute walk through what Pane can do.

Typing

Locked notes

One password locks every locked note. A locked note’s text, its earlier versions and its daily backups are encrypted on this computer. Its title stays readable. There is no way to recover a forgotten password.

Note buttons

Keys

N
New note
/
Find
Esc
Clear search, leave a note
Ctrl S
Save now (it autosaves anyway)
Ctrl V
Paste onto the wall as a new note when no note is open. Pasting a picture into a note attaches it.
Ctrl Enter
Make the line a checklist item, or tick it
Tab
Take the suggested word (Esc puts it away)
[ [
Link to another note: pick a name with the arrows, Enter or Tab to put it in
Ctrl K
Every command: copy for Teams, templates, pop out, lock, to-dos
Ctrl Shift N
New note from anywhere (desktop app)
Ctrl Alt F
Find a note from anywhere (desktop app)

Put existing notes on the wall

Rescue a folder of Notepad files

Every .txt and .md in the folder becomes a note. The files are copied, never moved or changed. Anything already on the wall is skipped.

Or pick files

You can also drop files anywhere on the wall, or paste text while no note is open.

Earlier versions of

Old notes on the wall

Welcome to Pane

Setup, step 1 of 2

Pane is one wall for all your notes. Nothing is ever deleted: notes you are done with go to the shelf, and earlier versions of every note are kept.

Where should your notes go?

Obsidian can be turned on or off any time in Settings.

Prompt from

Built on this computer from the note's own words, nothing sent anywhere. Edit it here before you copy if you like.

↑↓ choose · Enter run · Esc close

Lock notes

Templates

Your templates

    Delete ?