Notes, tasks and scripts
On this page
A note on the Notes page can become a task, and a task's note can become a note of its own.
Turning notes into tasks and back#
- Turn into task (in a standalone note's menu) makes a task with the note's title, text, project and labels, and moves the note to the Trash.
- Move note to a new note (in a task's menu) moves the task's note out into a new standalone note titled like the task, in the task's project; the task keeps its title and its note becomes empty.
Both can be undone with Undo. Viewers of a shared project are offered neither. Both work offline and reach your other devices on the next sync.
Trash#
A deleted note goes to the Trash with tasks and projects. Restore it from there, or delete it permanently; the Trash empties itself after the retention period like for tasks, and a project deleted permanently takes its notes with it.
From scripts and assistants#
ot notes lists, searches, shows, adds, edits, appends to and removes notes, and ot task note reads and writes a task's note as Markdown (see the command line). AI assistants connected over MCP can read and search notes and, when you allow it, create and change them. Text added this way is appended at the end of the note without replacing what you wrote, even while you edit the same note on another device. A replacement of the whole text is refused when the note changed since the script or assistant read it.
Notes are not sent to calendar apps over CalDAV, to webhooks, to the activity feed, to automations or to the Markdown vault.