I’m curious if there’s a place where the structure of notes in the app is clearly and visually explained. I’ve watched YouTube videos and explored the community, but I’m still having trouble creating a basic structure for my notes. I really love the app’s design, so I’m determined not to give up easily.
In my previous note-taking apps, I organized my notes using folders and tags. Folders and subfolders help me navigate quickly. For example, I have folders named 01-Personal, 02-Work, 03-Shopping, etc., with smaller subfolders beneath them. This setup gives me confidence that I can dive deep without needing to remember a tag or search. Tags help me cross-navigate notes from multiple folders.
How would you suggest structuring something like this in the app?
How would you structure something like this in here?
You can set up a structure that is precisely the same in supernotes, if you want.
For each of your folders, create a top level card, e.g. the card ‘Personal’. Then for each subfolder, create a child card under ‘Personal’. If you make all of these cards priority you’ll see them in the outline, and the parent/child relationships are expandable, so it’ll look precisely the same as it might look in a traditional folder structure. For individual notes, then, just add cards as children to each of these subfolders, making them ‘visible’ but not priority (viewable in the outline). You can then use tags in exactly the same way as your other system. The rough mapping is as follows:
Folder → Parent Card with priority visibility
Subfolder → Child card (of folder parent) with priority visibility
Note → Child card with visible visibility (or priority if you’d also like to see it in the outline!).
One way to think about supernotes cards is that they “collapse” the distinction between folder and file. So, each thing that is a “folder” also has a file automatically associated with it (the body contents of the card) and each thing that is a file can also act as a folder (any card can have any number of child cards).
Supernotes also has a more recent collections feature that you could also explore here. In this case, you would use the properties of certain cards as a means of organization (such as their tags or link counts) rather than an explicitly curated organization like the one I just suggested. Hope this helps!
