# Write and keep notes in Prior
> Notes sit next to your tasks and projects, as a personal library of folders and as live shared notes for your team. Here is where to start.
Source: https://priortasks.com/docs/notes/notes-overview/
Last updated: 2026-11-05
Notes are documents that live next to your tasks. Use them for meeting notes, project briefs, research and anything too long for a task description. Notes work on every plan.
## Open your notes
Choose **Notes** in the menu, or press G then N. The command palette (Cmd+K or Ctrl+K) finds a note by its title.
If **Notes** is not in your menu, open **Discover**, find **Keep your notes** and choose the **Menu** button next to it, which adds it to your menu.
## Write your first note
1. Choose **New note** (the **+** at the top of the library), or press N. In the desktop app, Cmd+N or Ctrl+N also works.
2. Type a title, then press Enter to move into the text.
3. Write. Type / to insert a heading, a list, a table, a chart or a callout.
There is no Save button. Prior saves a moment after you stop typing, and again when you leave the note. An empty note offers templates to start from: see [Start a note from a template](https://priortasks.com/docs/notes/note-templates/).
## What the screen holds
- **The library** on the left: your folders and notes, a search box and a **Favorites** filter. See [Organize notes](https://priortasks.com/docs/notes/organize-notes/).
- **Tabs** above the note, so several notes stay open.
- **The note** itself, always ready to edit. You see it formatted; the Markdown shows only in the part you are typing in. See [Write in the note editor](https://priortasks.com/docs/notes/note-editor/).
- **The inspector**, opened from the toolbar: properties, the outline of headings, backlinks and a small graph of linked notes.
On a phone, the library and the note take turns. A back arrow returns to the list.
## Two kinds of notes
| Kind | Who sees it | Where it lives |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Personal note | Only you | Your **Library**, in folders. Each project also has a folder. |
| Shared note | Everyone in a shared project | The project's **Notes** tab. Editors write in it together, live. |
Personal notes can be linked to a project with [project notes](https://priortasks.com/docs/notes/project-notes/), and moved into the project's shared notes whenever you decide. See [Write a shared note live](https://priortasks.com/docs/notes/shared-notes/).
## What a note can hold
Headings, lists, checklists, quotes, code, [tables](https://priortasks.com/docs/notes/tables/) with totals, [charts](https://priortasks.com/docs/notes/charts/), callouts and [toggles](https://priortasks.com/docs/notes/toggles-and-outline/), math, Mermaid diagrams, links between notes with `[[Note title]]`, `#tags`, and [images, video, audio and PDFs](https://priortasks.com/docs/notes/attachments/).
## Good to know
- **Plain Markdown underneath.** A note is stored as Markdown text. **Export Markdown**, in the note's **More actions** menu, downloads it as a `.md` file.
- **Your notes are with you offline.** Personal notes are kept on your device first and sync with your account. Your notes, folders and attachments are part of [your data export](https://priortasks.com/docs/account/export-your-data/).
- **Ask Prior AI about a note.** The sparkle button in the toolbar opens the assistant on the note you are reading. See [Page context](https://priortasks.com/docs/prior-ai/page-context/).
- **Deleting needs a confirmation.** The note goes to the trash: **Trash**, under the library, lists what you deleted and brings it back with **Restore**.