Find your way around

Niv's window has three parts: the sidebar on the left, your open notes in the middle, and the note's context on the right.

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The sidebar

At the top:

• Home: your day in one place. See Home.

• Search: search the text of every note (⌘K). See Search.

• Graph: how your notes connect. See The graph.

• AI Chat: your chats, and New chat. See AI chat.

Below that is Notes, the folders and notes in your folder. See Notes and folders.

At the bottom is the sync line: the Space's name and a word like "synced" or "offline". Click it to open the matching part of Settings. See Sync status.

⌘B shows or hides the sidebar. Drag its edge to make it wider or narrower.

Tabs

Each open note has a tab. ⌘T opens a new tab and ⌘W closes the current one. Home, the graph and AI chats open in tabs too.

The right rail

The rail beside a note shows its context, in six tabs:

• AI: a chat next to the note.

• Links: what this note links to, what links here, and connected notes. See Links and backlinks.

• Outline: the note's headings.

• Tags: the note's tags.

• Graph: the note's neighbourhood.

• History: its versions, and edits made at the same time as someone else. See Versions and history.

Open or close the rail with its button in the tab bar. ⌘I opens it on the AI tab, and closes it when AI is already showing.

Find a note or run a command

Press ⌘O. Type part of a note's name to open it. If nothing matches, ⇧↵ creates a note with that name.

Type > first to run a command instead, such as New folder, Today's note, Open graph or Open Space….

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Menus

On macOS, the File menu holds New Note, New Folder, Open Space…, Open Recent and Close Space.

All shortcuts are in Keyboard shortcuts.