Keep notes

Notes is where anything bigger than a task lives: a plan, meeting notes, a recipe, a page for everything about one project. Every page can hold more pages, so your notes grow into a shape that fits you.

On a computer it's in the sidebar, or press 5. The panel beside your pages shows the whole tree, and Ctrl+\ hides it. On a phone, tap Notes in the bottom bar; New page is at the top of Notes.

• Organise by dragging pages in the panel: onto the top or bottom edge of a page to reorder, onto its middle to put it inside. Or use a page's ⋯ menu and Move to….
• Favorites sit at the top of the panel. Tap the star on any page.
• Templates give a blank page a shape to start from: meeting notes, a project brief, reading notes, a weekly review.

Type / anywhere for the full list of blocks. Formatting also happens as you type:

Hover a block to see its handle: drag it to move the block, click it to turn the block into another kind, duplicate it or delete it, or + to add a block below. Select words to make them bold, colour them, highlight them, or link them.

Code blocks carry their language: pick it in the corner of the block, or write the language right after the three backticks (python, sql, ts) to open one in it. The code is coloured to match, Copy takes the whole block, and Tab indents inside it rather than leaving the page. A language Kairo does not colour is still kept exactly as written, fence and all, when the page is downloaded as Markdown.

Paste a link on a line of its own and it becomes a card: the page's title, a line about it, its picture. A video, a track or a post from a site that offers one plays right there instead. Hover the block for Show as card, Play here, Show as link or Remove. A link pasted into a sentence stays an ordinary link.

Pictures: paste a screenshot, drag an image in from your desktop, or pick Picture from the slash menu. It uploads as you watch, then sits in the page at Small, Medium or Full width. Kairo keeps the address, never the file itself, so pages stay small; a picture is never stretched past its own size.

Share a page to the web: open the page menu (the three dots) and choose Share to web. Kairo makes a link nobody can guess, and anyone who has it can read that page. They cannot change it, they cannot see anything else of yours, and pages inside it stay private until you share them too. Edits show up on the shared page as you make them, the switch takes it down again, and turning it back on gives you the same link. A locked page cannot be shared, and locking a shared one closes the link. Search engines are asked not to list it.

• Toggle lists tuck details away until you open them. Click the arrow to open or close one.
• Tables grow with + Row and + Column in the bar above them. Drag a column's edge to widen it.
• Callouts make something stand out. Click the icon to change it.
• Sub-pages made with / then Page appear as a link on the page they live in.

A line of a note can become a real Kairo task. Select the words and tap ✓ Task, use a block's handle and Make it a Kairo task, or type /task. What you type is read the same way Capture reads it, so "pay rent friday" is planned for Friday.

The task shows on the page as a live chip: tick it there and it's ticked everywhere in Kairo, and the other way round.

• Hover over a page's title for Add icon and Add cover. Click either later to change it.
• The ⋯ menu sets the font, small text and full width for that page.
• Lock page stops a page from being edited by accident, on every device, until you unlock it.
• Linked from at the bottom of a page lists every page that links to it.

Deleting a page moves it and every page inside it to the Trash, with an Undo straight away. Restore it from the Trash for 30 days; after that it's deleted for good.

Pages save as you type, and everything is kept on your device first, so a dropped connection or a closed tab doesn't lose words. If the same page changes on two devices at once, nothing is overwritten: Kairo lets you Keep both, keep yours, or use the other one.

• Assistants you connect to Kairo can only use your notes if you tick Include notes on their connection key. They can search, read, make pages and add to them, but never delete or rewrite one.
• Export as Markdown from a page's ⋯ menu. Everything at once is downloadable too, even after a subscription has ended.
• Deleting your account deletes every page, trash included.