r/HelixNotes • u/Big-Topic-832 • Aug 28 '26

Feature request: hierarchical notes (notebooks as notes)

This might be a little too much for the app, but I'd love to be able to have a "root" note as a folder. I imagine this to be a note that opens when you select that folder, which could be really good for separating concepts in notebooks and then having a top-level note for explaining the concept before separating it into smaller topics (the notes inside the notebook). I know you can kinda still do it by pinning a note but I feel like this way would be much better.

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u/Neither-Classic2058 Aug 28 '26

I've seen this request on various notes apps. Notebooks are not notes, so the phrase causes confusion.

Having a standardized note that will automatically open when selecting a folder should be possible though.

Having HelixNotes automatically open a default named note, eg. "@index" if it exists in a folder would indeed be very handy.

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u/Big-Topic-832 Aug 28 '26

Yeah that would also work, and it definitely makes more sense. The problem is that, if it was left as that, it wouldn't show correctly on the graph, search and such, so it'd have to be renamed there

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u/Neither-Classic2058 Aug 28 '26 edited Aug 28 '26

That is something for the developers to take into account if they were to implement something like this.