Notes

Simply enter the name of the note in the search field, and view the content you're after!

Using the default controls, the content can be scrolled through using the

In addition, the pattern note: followed by your query can be used to only get note results.

Finally, you can also search for only definiotns by opening Dictionary using the applets-manager.

To create a new note, simply open the notes app and select Add note.

Notes are automatically saved persistently on disk to a configured folder. See the settings section to learn how to change this folder.

All notes have a couple of options that determine how they appear within LaunchMenu. These options are configurable on a per note, per category, or global basis.

The above video demonstrates how to configure these options on a per note basis.

Syntax highlighting

Every note has an associated syntax to it. By default this syntax is simply plain text. A large number of programming and other formatting languages is available however.

This way syntax highlighting while editing and previewing notes can be provided.

Font size

In some cases you want notes to just jump out and be very easily readable, rather than contain a whole essay. The font-size can be changed in order to accomplish this.

Menu item color

You may also want the menu items of some notes to be more attention grabbing. To accomplish this, you can recolor the item to any color you desire.

Searchable content

In many cases when looking for a note, you also want to check its contents. However searching the contents for big notes may be expensive (take a long time and makes searches slower), so this feature isn't enabled by default. You can manually decide for what notes it's worth enabling the feature, and for which it's not.

Note categories can be created to bundle group of notes together. These categories can define default values for their notes' appearance options such that these don't need to be configured for all notes individually.

A new note is easily added by executing the primary action of a note category, and any of the category's options can be configured from the context menu.

All notes are by default stored in subdirectory of LaunchMenu's installation. This directory can however be changed such that the notes files (written to disk as .txts) can also easily be accessed from outside LaunchMenu. LaunchMenu will automatically synchronize with changes from outside, without requiring a restart.

All the default values for the notes options can be configured such that newly created notes inherit these.

Note that these options aren't copied to newly created notes, but referenced by the notes. Therefor whenever the global options change, any notes that use these will also instantly change along.

By default the menu items hide when editing a note. This behavior can however be disabled in case you want to retain the notes overview, or whatever other context in which the note appeared.

By default notes only save to disk once you exit the editing mode. This can however be changed to automatically save while you're typing, in case you require changes to instantly save.

By default note categories are shown as category items in the menu, and all notes within the categories are listed below it.

This can be changed to make categories show inline, below each individual note. Changing this will also introduce an additional menu in which categories can be configured.