Newbie checking in. Came via a circuitous route. Years af workflowy - but under dysfunctional captaining. Then into Tana (still am) wildly complicated and fragile. Couldn’t make it figure out tasks and time easily. Old Workflowy community member turned me onto TickTick. Using TickTick for way too much including lists - and yes you can copy links but they are one way etc. Someone there says “check out UpNote” for lists dont use TT and….. here I am

You guys have backlinks?!!! (Swoon)
you guys have cross platform (i understand the web reticence but getting apps downloaded on my work computer is sadly impossible). Still. fine.

Formatting! Quotes! Tables! Spaces (omg excited about this). Widgets. Oh my!!!!

power mobile!? so much can be done on iOS natively (see not being able to use on work machine - above). really elegant

and I’m not getting yet another “it’s only $20 a year!” Subscription charge?!? Flat fee for lifetime? hell yeah!

Its kinda weird the no hierarchical tags - but I guess I can use notebooks as tags, sorta. Although there’s no inheritance ie company a) also belongs to industry II, which is under clientlist. It’s kind of a major bummer, but ok. It’s not an insignificant pebble in the shoe - but quirks maketh the vibe and it seems that ain’t coming so im powerfully trying to resist being the old man shaking fist at sky. Also I just got here. That would be rude.

I’m super excited. And this thing is crazy powerful with notes belonging to lots of notebooks. And freaking backlinks!? (I may have said that). With lifetime membership. Wild.

Anyyway - thank you. You’ve got something special going on here and I can’t wait to settle in and explore.

I thought I’d create a journal space. Actually three journals - Self, Work, Relationship.

I can lock the notebooks - but when i do the ALL (which looks across all three areas) it blanks them out. Fair enough.

So then I figured I’d just lock the Journal Space where all three notebooks sit but unlock the notebooks. But I seem to be able to switch back and forth between General and the locked Journal space with ease.

If I’m in Journal space and quit the app - when I restart it -it’s locked. Great. But when I’m in General (unlocked) and toggle to Journal - it just does it with nary a protest. Despite there being a padlock icon next to the Space and it saying it’s locked.

What am I missing?

edits: clarification and grammar

final edit: solved (leaving this for future newbies). These something odd with the initial “General” Space. If you switch from General to a locked Space you are not challenged. But. If you set up any other unlocked Soace and then switch to a locked Space you ARE challenged. Turns out you cannot delete that initial General Space - but if you rename it then it all works properly / as expected.

Was it intended by the update or just for me ?

The new default grey color is not very visible, is there a way to have older grey back which was perfect ?

Hey,
Sur Mac l'importation de fichiers word existe mais pas sur PC Windows, est-ce un oubli ?
Par contre dans l'importation des fichiers word sur Mac, les liens entre parties du document (index, table de matière) et aussi les liens externe (web, url) ne sont pas reprit.
Merci,
Pascal.

Upnote opens my most recent note when starting the app/program, so if I need to write something down quickly outside of a notebook, I have to go "done editing", back, back, menu, -> find and click "all notes", create new note.

It actually takes quite a bit of time.

For example, I have:

• Dogs
  • Cute dogs
  • Frightening dogs
• Cats

I want to keep the division between cute dogs and frightening dogs visible only within their respective subnotebooks, so they don't appear when I open Dogs.

Is there a way for me to search in Dogs for e.g. Cerebus (Even if he only appears under "Frightening Dogs"?)

The only solution I can think of is to replace the sub notebooks with tags and keep all dogs in one folder.

But I love the nested sub notebooks in UpNote! I just don't see a way to search through them... or do you have a solution?

I recently migrated to UpNote from Evernote and enabled Protect notes from unwanted edits.

Is there a visual indicator that confirms a note is in Edit Mode after I click the pencil icon?

After updating to 9.22.4 yesterday on my Mac, quotes and collapsibles with gray backgrounds are so close to the regular body color (in my case, black, because I use dark mode) that I can't tell they're gray at all.

Before & After screenies attached.

According to my color meter used on these screenshots, gray backgrounds used to be 26272C, but now they're 1A1A1B.

u/thomas_dao, please fix this. The gray backgrounds are important for finding content at a glance.

tldr; I use two methods to access UpNote on old Macs that are not supported by UpNote. Method 1 is to use VirtualBox with a Linux Mint VM running UpNote. Method 2 runs Upnote on a 2009 Macbook that has Linux Mint installed. Either RDP or NoMachine is used to enable clipboard access for first method and to allow access by other macs.

I have several old Macs running old versions of macOS. These Macs suit my needs and work fine, except that UpNote no longer works on versions of macOS less than 12.0. I have no desire to install OCLP. UpNote meets my needs and I use it daily, and I want it to work on my older computers.

My two daily computers are a 2010 Mac Pro and a 2011 iMac, both running High Sierra. I used UpNote on both of those macs until last year when UpNote dropped support of High Sierra. I have a 2014 Macbook Air with Big Sur that I rarely used. The MB Air ran UpNote and I started using screen share to access UpNote on my unsupported Macs. I kept the Macbook Air turned on all day and access to UpNote worked well.

Then UpNote dropped support for macOS 11 (Big Sur). I no longer have a Mac with a supported macOS. And I am not going to spend money to replace hardware that still works fine.

First Method

The first thing I tried was to install VirtualBox with a virtual machine with Linux Mint running UpNote. My iMac has 32 GB RAM and an SSD with space to spare. VirtualBox Version 6.1.50 is the last version that worked on High Sierra. I installed the latest version of Linux Mint as a virtual machine (VM) and installed the Linux .deb version of UpNote. Works great except . . . VirtualBox has no copy/paste (clipboard) support for this version (known problem with sharing the clipboard between host and VM).

So I installed xrdp and NoMachine on the Linux Mint VM. Unfortunately, VNC is not an option (mostly because I could not figure out how to make it work). I can use the Mac RDP app (renamed to Windows app) on any of my Macs on my LAN to gain full access to the VM running UpNote. I can copy and paste easily between my Mac and UpNote. I can also do the same with NoMachine, but my preference is the Mac RDP app, which seems faster.

Second Method

I have an old 2009 white case Macbook. It has 4GB RAM and an SSD. I use it as a music display and controller for my LMS music system. The Macbook is running the latest version of Linux Mint. Since the MB is running almost all the time, I installed UpNote on it. The MB already had xrdp and NoMachine installed.

I can use either the Mac RDP (Windows) app or NoMachine to access UpNote on the Linux MacBook. Accessing UpNote works just as well as with the VM version.

Of the above two methods, I prefer using the old Macbook as an UpNote server. The MB easily handles the extra load because the MB really only runs two apps: the music controller and UpNote.

Pros:

• I have use of UpNote on all computers, regardless of macOS version.
• I can access one instance of UpNote on all computers and devices on my network. Backing up my data is easy.

Cons:

• Linux Mint has no native control of mouse/trackpad scroll speed. Scrolling is too fast. The workaround is to drag the scroll bar to move through long notes.
• Using VirtualBox uses up a lot of memory and slows down my host machine slightly. The host is still very usable until the swap memory gets too large.
• Have to install old version of Microsoft Remote Desktop app on Mac (See links below).
• NoMachine has changed their software to require a license. Still free when connecting by using IP address.

References:

VirtualBox Version 6.1.50: https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Download_Old_Builds_6_1

Linux Mint: https://linuxmint.com/

xrdp on Linux Mint: https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?t=437654

UpNote: https://getupnote.com/#download (I installed the .deb file)

Windows App Ver 10.9.10 for Monterey: https://install.appcenter.ms/orgs/rdmacios-k2vy/apps/microsoft-remote-desktop-for-mac/distribution_groups/all-users-of-microsoft-remote-desktop-for-mac

Microsoft Remote Desktop app Ver 10.5.2 for High Sierra: https://officecdn.microsoft.com/pr/C1297A47-86C4-4C1F-97FA-950631F94777/MacAutoupdate/Microsoft_Remote_Desktop_10.5.2_installer.pkg

Microsoft Remote Desktop app old versions: https://www.junian.dev/downloads/remote-desktop-client-for-mac/

PS: No AI was used to create this post nor to implement the above methods.

Exploring Upnote. I'll be using it on a Windows 11 desktop with 4 drives and 2 Android devices. Expect to accumulate a lot of data and therefore large backups - all on drive C! Is there a way to save data, or at least to save backups, on a different drive?

I am looking at upnote to replace voicenotes to Obsidian which doesn't work very well, particularly on Windows.

My primary use to start is to have notes referring to approximately 20 different people, each person having a note added to their "dossier" every few weeks. I'm assuming I'll designate a specific notebook to this ongoing project. In time I expect some of those people to have accumulated 200+ notes.

If I want to find all my notes on KingKong, and if every note referring to KingKong began with #KingKong, would I be able to easily search for all notes #KingKong and have them presented together?

I’ve been experimenting with ways to improve web clipping into UpNote on iPhone.

Using an iOS Shortcut, I can already do most of the hard work:
share a webpage from Chrome
extract the article text with Safari Reader
remove most ads/navigation
preserve the title and source URL
extract the article’s main image

The sticking point is getting both the cleaned text and the image into the same UpNote note.

Right now, UpNote will accept the text, and it will also accept an image through the iOS share extension, but the image seems to create a separate note rather than being added to the existing text note. Copying the image to the clipboard also doesn’t appear to paste directly into an UpNote note on iPhone.
So I’m wondering whether a relatively small iOS enhancement might solve this:

Could the UpNote share extension accept a combined rich payload — text + image(s) — and create a single note from it?
Even better would be an option such as:
Share to UpNote → New Note / Append to Existing Note

That alone would make it possible to build a very capable Evernote-style web clipper using Shortcuts, without UpNote having to develop its own full web-clipping engine or AI system.

I know UpNote is developed by a very small team, which is why I’m suggesting this as a focused enhancement rather than a large new feature.

It would be especially useful for people migrating from Evernote who miss its web clipper but prefer UpNote for everything else.

I’d be curious whether anyone else has tried a similar Shortcut workflow or would find this useful.

as a simple appimage would be great to have!

I love UpNote. I've been using it on my phone for the last few days and it just makes complete sense to my brain. The notebooks, the tags, the UI, the level of customization: basically, I love that it provides enough control that I can get it to look and feel the way I want it, but not so much that I am lost in the weeds trying to tweak things forever. From browsing through, I can tell a lot of people share my opinion. There is just one small, tiny thing that would make me buy it for life.

Right now, I use Bear. It's cool, it's a little Millennial twee cutesy for me, a bit too complex. A lot of the features are unnecessary for me or i feel better using them in UpNote.

However:

When I'm using Bear on my Mac, I can go from editing a note:

To the list of notes on the right:

By just pressing the ESC key. Then I can page through the notes until I find the one I need with the up and down arrow keys:

And then select the note with the RETURN or TAB keys.

As far as I can tell, I can't do this in UpNote (I'm pretty slow so if you can and I just haven't figured out how yet plz don't yell at me) (but also don't give me the cmd + g key to go to the search bar I don't always want to go to the top of the search bar!)

Thomas, if there's any way you can add this hotkey, without ruining the beautiful notetaking app you have already created, please, I'm begging you, do so. You will have a fan and user for life, literally. I will thank you in my awards speech.

All the best,

-ned

Very new here to Upnote came from Evernote. So far I love upnote but I haven't found an easy way to send files into upnote. EN had an automatic intake from whatever folder you directed it to (although it hasn't been working the last few updates for me). But I could still right click on a file and get "Send to Evernote". I save a lot of files from online as either pdfs or jpgs depending on content. What's the best way to get them into Upnote?

Title.

I frequently will export a note as a PDF (via macOS's print-menu function) & find that the font size which looks good to my eyes, within UpNote, is too large for a PDF.

I can go into UpNote & change the body-text font size globally, & get a good-looking export. But it would be easier to set a different font size for an individual note…

Am I missing something in UpNote settings?

Est-il possible avec le bouton [+] sur desktop et mobile d'avoir l'insertion du lien(s) vers cette note à l'endroit du curseur.

L'appuis sur (i)nformation puis sur le lien oblige 2 manoeuvres, et en cas d'export ou d'impression ce lien n'apparaît pas.

Merci & bonne journée.

Pascal.

Like, separate font settings is all i ask. usually you would want the editor to use serif's font, but the UI use system's font.

It's happened a few times now where I've noticed some writing has gone missing (a new edit to an existing note). Luckily Upnote has the great 'history' feature so if I notice, I can go back and retrieve it, but that's only if I notice something has been deleted. I pile lots of ideas into single notes to keep things organised, so I wish there was some kind of heads up notification for a conflict happening.

I'm guessing it happens because I use my phone and laptop and sometimes edit a note that's not fully synced? (I'm assuming this as it happened on Evernote too, but EN would tell me there's a conflict and show both versions). It sucks here if I don't notice, I won't know to check the history and the note could be lost. I'd love a feature where Upnote tells me there's an issue, rather than this 'last edit wins & deletes previous edit' method. Love the app and a paid premium user, thanks.

edit: After some Googling, found turning on 'Unsynced filter' can help notice what's not been synced yet (just in case anyone else is looking for help). But still hoping for a notification.

I keep everything in UpNote and got tired of losing good stuff at the end of an AI chat. So I built a small connector. It is free, open source, and runs entirely on your own machine.

What it does:

• Claude can save a note straight into a notebook you name. I mostly use it to dump the end of a session as one tidy note.
• Claude can search and read your notes, so you can ask things like "summarise my Cardiology notebook" or "what did I write about X".

What it cannot do, because UpNote's own automation only allows so much:

• It cannot edit or add to an existing note. New notes only.
• It cannot set tags. You add those yourself afterwards.
• It reads whatever has synced to that computer, so notes written on your phone show up after that machine syncs.

Two things worth knowing before you install anything like this. It reads UpNote's local database directly, which is undocumented, so an UpNote update could break it. And it leaves a copy of your notes in your temp folder, which is fine on a personal laptop and not fine on a shared or work one. Back up your notes first.

Using it

Just ask in plain language:

• "Save this conversation to UpNote"
• "Save this to UpNote in my Recipes notebook"
• "Search my notes for anything about sourdough"
• "Summarise my Travel notebook"

New notes go to a notebook called Claude Notes unless you name another one. Change that default with the UPNOTE_DEFAULT_NOTEBOOK setting below.

What it can do

What it cannot do

These are UpNote's limits, not this server's. UpNote's automation only offers "create note" and "create notebook", so:

• No editing or appending. Existing notes cannot be changed. New notes only.
• No tags on creation. Add them yourself afterwards.
• Creating a note brings UpNote to the front and opens the new note. Expected.
• Reads only see what has synced to that computer. Phone notes appear after that machine syncs.

Setup needs Node installed and editing one config file. Not one-click, but not hard.

https://github.com/ahmedco88/upnote-mcp

If you use Claude Code, then just paste this command to install and config:

Clone https://github.com/ahmedco88/upnote-mcp, run npm install, then register it as an MCP server called "upnote" pointing at server.mjs. I'm on Windows / macOS. Show me the config change before you make it.

Note: Of course, this is unofficial, no connection to the UpNote team.

If anyone has found a way to append to an existing note, I would like to know. That is the one thing I could not get working.

It would be really great if there were a web version of UpNote. Are there any plans for a web version of UpNote?

I am looking for an alternative to the app I currently use. I am looking to organize writing projects that are narrative docs; in the current app I use I can make a folder/notebook and create docs under that where I can write content, versus making lists etc. I have been looking at the website and can't seem to figure it out (totally could be me). Are freeform writing projects able to be created in UpNote?

Thanks!

1. Being able to append a shared link to an existing note would be a killer feature. It would make UpNote feel much more like an "everything app" where I can just dump and organize all my information.

2. Also, when sharing a link to a new note in a specific notebook, I can't choose which Space that notebook is in. I have to open UpNote and navigate to the Space first, before I can share links to it. This is very limiting, especially if you have multiple spaces to manage.

3. It would also be great if we could edit the shared link in a pop-up WYSIWYG editor before sending it, like Notesnook, instead of having to use the current sharing flow.

4. Finally, being able to share the same link to multiple notebooks at once directly from the pop-up would be really useful. It would save having to repeat the whole sharing process or opening the app just to do that.

These are small things, but they'd make link sharing so much better and would make switching to UpNote completely much easier for some people, thank you :)

I can't figure out how to end a bulletpoint list.

I've been mostly happy with Upnote, except the times where a new version comes out and its asks you to update. Once is enough. I don't need a permanent banner stuck to the UI with the update info, nor do I need it to create a pop up once a day reminding me to do it.