Notes and the editor

3.1 The basics

Creating notes. The plus button lives on the right of the editor toolbar, so you don't have to back out of a note to start a new thought.

Saving. Automatic. Notes are written as you type — even a sudden shutdown won't lose anything.

Deleting. Swipe left on a card in the Saved notes list, or use multi-select. The note lands in the Trash first — nothing vanishes right away. You can put it back. It's only gone for good if you say so explicitly, or if a cleanup rule you've turned on removes it (see section 6).

Note titles. By default the first line of the note becomes its title in the list — you don't have to write a separate heading. The card shows the first 50 characters.

If you'd rather not have a styled title, turn it off: Settings → Editor → "Title". The first line becomes ordinary text, and the card still shows its opening words so you can recognize the note.

Undo and redo. The toolbar has undo/redo arrows. They cover the current editing session.

3.2 Three writing modes

Loknot can render text three different ways. The mode is remembered per note, so the same notebook can hold both plain jottings and richly formatted pieces.

Plain text

The default. No markup, no surprises — what you type is what you see. Right for most notes.

Markdown

Turn it on in Settings → Editor → "Markdown".

Markdown is a way of styling text with ordinary characters. Type **important** and the word turns bold. No buttons, no menus.

What Loknot understands:

Formatting shows up as you type — there's no separate view mode to switch into. If you'd like to see the clean rendered version, the toolbar has a preview button (the eye icon).

Screenplay Pro

Turn it on in Settings → Editor → "Screenplay".

A mode for screenwriters. Loknot speaks Fountain, the industry-standard plaintext screenplay format, and handles the indentation for you.

The app recognizes six line types:

• Scene heading — a line like INT. KITCHEN — MORNING. Start typing INT. or EXT. and suggestions appear (INT., EXT., INT./EXT., EXT./INT. and so on).
• Action — the description of what's happening on screen.
• Character — the speaker's name, in all caps.
• Dialogue — what the character actually says.
• Parenthetical — the little clarification in parentheses under a character's name.
• Transition — CUT TO: and its cousins.

If the auto-detection guesses wrong, toolbar buttons let you set the line type by hand.

Paged preview. The eye button shows the script the way it would look on paper, paginated according to industry rules.

Repeat character name after a page break. Same section. When a speech runs past a page break, standard formatting reprints the character name on the next page. Turn it on if that's the look you need.

3.3 The editor toolbar

The strip at the bottom of the screen is your control panel for the note. It has two states, toggled by one button — the three dots (⋮) on the left.

The status bar

The default look, the one you see while you're writing. It stays out of the text and keeps the most-used things within reach:

• ⋮ (three dots) on the left — opens the tool panel (the second state).
• Word and character count — if enabled (see section 7). In screenplay mode it's replaced by line-type buttons (Scene, Action, Character and the rest).
• Tag input (#) — tap to tag the note (details in section 5.3).
• Internal links — the icon only appears once the note has links; it opens the list of outgoing and back-links (see 3.4).
• Timer — if enabled (see section 7): shows a countdown or a start button.
• New note (+) on the right — start a new note without leaving the editor.

The tool panel

Tap the three dots to open it; it holds the things you reach for less often. Tap the dots again, swipe down, or tap the text to close it.

• Dictation Pro (microphone) — dictate the note out loud, see section 4.
• Export — save the note to a file (.txt, .md, .html, and .pdf for screenplays; see section 9.4).
• Share — send the note's text to any other app: a messenger, mail, whatever you like.
• Preview (eye) — only visible in Markdown or Screenplay mode; shows the rendered result.
• Typewriter mode — on/off (see section 7). The active button is highlighted. Great for deep focus: the current line stays centered on screen, and everything else fades slightly into the background.
• Checklist mode — turn lines into checkable items (how it works is just below).
• Insert a note link — inserts the double square brackets and offers a picker for choosing the target note (see 3.4).
• Undo / redo — step back or forward through edits in the current session.

How checklists work

The list button turns lines into a checklist: an empty circle ○ means "to do", a check mark ✓ means "done". Tap the marker to toggle.

• Press Enter and the next line gets its own circle right away.
• Press Enter on an empty item and the list ends — you're back to regular text.

A calculator inside the text

Sometimes you need a quick sum in the middle of writing and reaching for a calculator is a pain. This isn't a toolbar button — it's inline math: type the expression and finish it with an equals sign.

Type 1250+840= and the answer appears right after the equals sign. Addition, subtraction, multiplication and division all work with the usual precedence, decimals accept both a dot and a comma, and negative numbers are fine.

Percentages. Two percent forms are supported, both triggered by the equals sign at the end of the line:

• Percent of a number — X% of Y. Written as X%Y=. For example, 15%200= gives 30 (15% of 200).
• What fraction is X of Y — the reverse. Written as X/Y%=. For example, 50/200%= gives 25% (50 is 25% of 200).

Numbers can use either a dot or a comma, and the first number may be negative: 12.5%80= gives 10. The answer appears on the same line.

3.4 Internal links

Sometimes one note is really the continuation of another. Loknot can wire them together.

Making a link. Write the note's name inside double square brackets: [[Summer plans]]. As soon as you type [[, suggestions from your existing notes pop up — picking one is faster than typing the whole title.

There's also a toolbar button — "Insert note link".

Following a link. Tap it in the text and the target note opens.

Backlinks. The links icon in the toolbar shows two groups:

• Outgoing links — everywhere this note points to.
• Backlinks — every note that points back at this one.

The second list is quietly powerful: you open a note and immediately see everywhere else it comes up, without ever having curated that yourself.

3.5 A word on very large notes

Loknot handles long documents just fine — an entire book will fit in one note. That said, there are a few honest caveats:

• Past roughly a hundred thousand characters, the app switches to a different rendering approach so scrolling and typing stay snappy. You won't see any visible change.
• Markdown syntax highlighting turns off in very long notes — otherwise every keystroke would stutter. The text and markup are still there in full; they simply aren't colored.
• Truly enormous notes can't be synced to the cloud. The app tells you clearly and suggests what to do. See section 9.2.