Quick notes#

A quick note is somewhere to put a thought without stopping what you were doing. Every other way Laver stores text costs a navigation — a ticket needs a board and a column, a comment needs its ticket, a wiki page needs a wiki — and that navigation is usually the moment the thought gets away.

Take one#

Click Quick note at the edge of the screen, or press Cmd/Ctrl+Shift+K. The panel opens out of the button it came from and sits over the page you were on. Type, and press Save note or Cmd/Ctrl+Enter. Enter on its own starts a new line, because half of all notes are two lines long.

Both ways in work from anywhere in the app, including with a ticket open — so a thought that arrives while you are reading something does not cost you the thing you were reading. The button lifts itself over the ticket rather than disappearing behind it, and the panel opens in front of both. Closing the note leaves the ticket exactly where it was.

A note can be up to 5,000 characters. An empty one is refused rather than stored.

Write it properly#

A note is written in the same editor a wiki page is, so a thought that turns out to be worth keeping does not have to be retyped somewhere else to get a heading on it. Type / for the command menu, or use the toolbar: headings, bold, italic, inline code, bullet lists, numbered lists, checklists, quotes, code blocks, links and tables. @ mentions belong to wiki pages and tickets, not to notes — a note nobody else can read has nobody to mention.

A note can also have a title, in the field above the editor. Leave it blank and the note is listed by its first line.

Paste a screenshot into it#

The thing worth catching is very often the screen in front of you — an error dialog, a chart, somebody else's spreadsheet — so paste an image straight into the note and it uploads where the cursor is. Selecting it gives you the same width buttons a wiki page does. A note that is one screenshot and nothing typed is still a note: Save note takes it.

Pasting is the way in. There is no file picker in the note panel, and the toolbar's image button asks for the address of a picture already on the web rather than uploading one.

• Images only. PNG, JPEG, GIF and WebP, and the bytes have to be what the file says they are — a document renamed to .png is refused.
• 10 MB per image. Anything larger is refused with "Pasted images must be 10 MB or smaller."
• 100 MB of note images in total, per person. A note belongs to you rather than to a workspace, so its pictures draw on a cap of your own instead of the workspace storage allowance that wiki and ticket images use. Past it, a paste is refused with "Your notes are holding as many images as they can. Delete a note with pictures in it to make room." Deleting a note releases the images no other note of yours still shows, which is how you get back under.
• Every pasted image is checked for malware before it can be shown. For the second or two that takes, the note draws "Checking this image for malware" in its place — yours included. Reopen the note and the picture is there.

Note images are as private as the notes themselves: nobody else in your workspace can fetch one, no owner or admin can, and an API key cannot.

Move it and size it#

Drag the panel's header — anywhere along it, apart from the title field and the close button — to move it, and its bottom-right corner to resize it. Where you leave it is where it opens next time, on this browser — a note taken beside a ticket wants a small panel, and an afternoon of writing wants a big one. On a narrow screen it fills the screen instead.

Nothing is lost#

What you are typing is kept as you type it, on this browser, and put back the next time you open the composer — so Escape, a closed tab or a stray click costs you nothing. The draft is only cleared once the server has the note.

Your notes are yours#

A note belongs to its author and to nothing else: no board, no workspace, no ticket. Nobody else in your workspace can read, edit or delete one, and no workspace owner or admin can either. They are not turned up by the Cmd/Ctrl+K search, which looks at boards, tickets, comments and wiki pages, and they are not in a board's CSV export.

That is also why an API key cannot reach them. A key is scoped to a workspace and a note has no workspace to be scoped to, so notes are readable only from a signed-in session — see API keys.

Read them back#

Your most recent 500 notes are listed down the side of the panel, newest first. Click one to open it; New note starts another.

An open note saves itself as you type — the pill beside the title says whether it has — so there is no separate save to remember.

A note also remembers where you were when you wrote it, and says so — "Taken on a board", "Taken in the wiki" — as a link back to that exact page. A note taken while reading a ticket reopens that ticket.

Right-click a note in the list for its two actions:

• Duplicate copies it and opens the copy, named "… (copy)" and sitting directly underneath the original. Only that note is copied — anything filed inside it stays where it is. This is how a note that turns out to be a template (a standup list, a call script) gets reused without retyping.
• Delete removes it, after asking, from wherever you are — you do not have to open a note to throw it away.

The keyboard opens the same menu: the menu key, or Shift+F10, on the note you have tabbed to.

Delete on a note removes it immediately. Notes do not go to Trash and there is no undo, which is the trade for a scratch pad: a note is a thought on the way to somewhere else, not a record. Deleting a note does not delete what was filed inside it, though: its contents move up to where it was.

File them#

Notes are kept in a tree, the same way wiki pages are. Drag a note onto another to file it inside, or between two to reorder it, and click the arrow beside a note to fold its contents away. A note with a title and nothing written in it works as a folder.

When to use something else#

• The thought is work somebody has to do → make a ticket. See Tickets.
• The thought is something the team needs to find later → write a wiki page. See Wiki pages.

A quick note is the step before both of those, not a replacement for either.