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Gardens

Keep separate spaces for projects, notes and research.

What are gardens?

A garden is a canvas with its own thoughts and connections. Keep one for a project, one for notes and one for research.

Creating and switching gardens

Click Gardens, the list button in the menu at the top left, to see all your gardens. Click one to switch to it, or click + to create a new one.

Tip: Click the logo to open or close the menu, which starts closed on a phone.

Sub-gardens

Any thought can open as its own garden, with a canvas inside it. Double-click a thought to open it, or double-tap it on a phone. Links, backlinks and search still work across every level.

Inside a sub-garden. The path at the top leads back to the garden it lives in.
Tip: A big garden can take a moment to open, and the screen dims until it's ready.

Breadcrumb navigation

Inside a sub-garden, the path at the top shows where you are. Click any part of it to jump back to that level.

Tip: On a phone, the levels in between fold into three dots; tap them to jump to one.

Per-garden settings

Each garden remembers its own layout, sorting and lock on this device. It also opens right where you left it.

Tip: To lock a garden so nothing moves or changes, press Cmd/Ctrl + K and choose Lock this garden.

Daily garden and Today

Your Daily garden keeps one entry per day, newest on top, and opens on today. A red line marks today, with the days still ahead faded above it. When you scroll away, click Today on the date rail to jump back, even before today has an entry.

Tip: A link to a day, or a day you pick in Cmd/Ctrl + K, opens right on that day.

Trash and restoration

Deleted thoughts go to the Trash in the menu at the top left. Restore one and it goes back to its garden, right where you can see it if you're looking there. Emptying the Trash deletes them for good.

Tip: Delete a thought that holds others and they appear right where it was, with the connections between them, while your view stays put.

Sharing gardens

Click Share at the top right to invite people as viewers or editors. Viewers can look, and editors can make changes. Sub-gardens are shared one at a time.

Tip: You see each other's cursors while you work together.