Blocks

Tip: blocks that have a title (Task List, Section, Database, Kanban, Gantt, Dashboard, Widget) drop the caret straight into the title when created — name it, press Enter, and keep writing. Mentions, hashtags and dates work inside those titles too.

Moving & styling a block

Hover any block and a small grip (⠿) appears in the left margin.

• Drag the grip to move the block. As you drag, the spot where it will land lights up — the destination column or section gets a highlight, and a line shows the exact position between blocks.
• Click the grip to open the block menu:
  • Mark complete — greys out and strikes through the block (click again for Mark incomplete).
  • Colour — pick a preset to give the whole block a coloured background panel and matching text. Choose Default to clear it. (A completed block shows its grey "done" look instead; un-completing brings your colour back.)
  • Copy link to block — copies a link to this exact block. Paste it into any note and it becomes a clickable reference pill that jumps straight here.
  • Duplicate, Move to notebook…, Copy to notebook… (search for the destination), and Delete.

Tip: click any empty space — between blocks, or inside a Section, Callout, Column or task list — to drop a new line right there (inside a task list it adds a new task).

Changed while you were away: when you reopen a notebook, any top-level block that was edited since your last visit by something other than you at the keyboard — a connected app over MCP, an agent, a background task — gets a small accent dot in the left margin. Hover the dot for a label (“Edited while you were away” or “Edited by a connected app”). The dots clear themselves the next time you open the note.

Text basics

Automatic links: finish typing a web address or an email — https://…, a www. host, a common domain like github.com, or name@example.com — then press Space and it turns into a clickable link pill on its own. It’s deliberately conservative: bare words like node.js, README.md or e.g. are left as plain text.

Task List

A titled checklist card. Create it from the / menu or by typing [] + space at the start of a line.

• Editable title — name the list; pressing Enter in the title jumps to the first task. @mentions, #hashtags and dates work in the title.
• Progress badge — the card header shows 3/5 style progress as you check items off.
• Collapsible — the chevron folds the list down to its title row.
• Auto-complete — when every task is checked, the whole list turns green and counts as complete. Add a new task and it flips back automatically.
• Backspace on an empty list deletes the whole list cleanly; arrow keys escape out of it in every direction.

Note: the / block menu is intentionally disabled inside checklist items — checklists stay checklists. Press Enter to leave the list first.

To do

A lighter, Apple Notes–style checklist. Type /todo for a frameless list — no card, no title, just circular checkboxes sitting flush with your text.

• No card or title — unlike Task List, a To do list reads as plain content in the note, not a bordered widget.
• Enter adds a row; Tab indents a row as a subtask.
• Ticking a row completes it the same way as any other task — it still counts in Smart Views, Stats and Insights.

Reach for Task List when you want a titled, progress-tracked card; reach for To do for a quick inline checklist inside your prose.

Containers

Follow-up chains

Spin a follow-up section off any block to continue a thread of work. Chained sections inherit the source block’s title with a locked prefix, and a connector line draws between them so you can see the whole chain at a glance — handy for turning a single block into an ongoing series of next steps.

Database

The Database is Nomima’s table — but every row is a record and every column has a type. Create it from the / menu (“Table / Database”). Name it in the title row, then Enter drops into the first cell.

• Typed columns — click a column header to set its type: plain Text, Date, Number, or any Smart Tag type (Person, Status, Project…). Cells in a typed column become real Smart Tags, so the people and tags inside your table show up in search and the Knowledge Graph.
• Records & completion — each row is its own block. A #complete in a Status cell (or the row’s checkbox) marks just that row done; mark the title #complete to complete the whole table.
• Totals & sorting — the calc strip under each column offers type-aware totals (Sum/Average/Min/Max on numbers, Done-count on status, Count on anything); the column menu sorts rows; drag a header edge to resize.
• Keyboard — Tab/Shift Tab walk cells, Enter adds a row, and arrow keys hop between rows and out to the title.

Pasting a table from a web page, Google Docs, Notion or Markdown drops in as a Database automatically — the header row becomes your columns and each row a record.

Derived tables: /entity-table builds a live table of every entity of a type (one row per Person, Project…, editable straight from the grid), and /query-table builds a filtered view of blocks across your notebooks. Both stay in sync as you edit elsewhere.

Code, math & diagrams

Terminal

Type /terminal to drop a real command-mode shell straight into a note. Run a command and its output streams in live — each line lands as it’s produced. Stop a command mid-run, and every command shows its duration and exit code when it finishes. Page back through what you ran with ↑/↓, and watch the working-directory chip update as you cd around. Up to 200 commands are saved with the note.

Calendar

Type /calendar to embed a live calendar view in any note. Switch between Day, 3-day and Week layouts. Events and dated tasks from your vault appear on the grid — click an item to jump to the source block. Tick a task directly from the calendar to mark it complete without leaving the view. A date-guard prevents the block from being created without a valid date anchor.

Boards & timelines

Kanban Board

Draggable cards in three fixed columns — To Do, In Progress and Done. Dragging a card to Done marks it complete, and a #complete card sits in Done — the board and your notes stay in sync. The header shows an active-of-total count. See Advanced blocks for the full walkthrough.

Gantt Chart

A timeline of tasks with start and end dates. Switch between Fit (default), Day, Week and Month zoom. Edit mode exposes name, start, end and assignee fields per row; preview mode shows just the chart. Tasks complete via their checkbox or a #complete tag. See Advanced blocks for details.

Dashboard & Widget

Dashboard is a live grid of widgets showing stats and trends about your vault; Widget is a single resizable chart or metric you can drop anywhere in a note.

Media & references

RSS Feed

Type /rss to drop a news reader straight into a note. Every feed is fetched privately in the background and cached in your vault, so articles stay readable offline.

• Adding a feed — open Edit feeds and follow up to five topics from a searchable, tabbed catalogue, or paste any site address (theverge.com) and Nomima auto-discovers its feed for you — no need to hunt down the feed URL.
• Three views — switch between List (compact email-style rows), Grid (visual cards with cover images) and Reader (a magazine river with excerpts). Unread items carry a dot and a “N new” badge; Mark all as read clears it, and there’s a search box to filter the current articles.
• Read in place — click an article to open it right inside the block. The feed’s own text shows instantly, then a clean, readable full-text extraction replaces it (a chip reads Summary or Full article), cached after the first fetch. Expand the block to a full-height reader, or hit Open original to read the source in Nomima’s in-app floating web-view without leaving the app (it only falls back to your browser if the web-view can’t open).
• RSS Memories — hit Pin on any article to fold it into a standalone RSS Memory block: the headline, image and snippet are captured read-only, with an editable field below (seeded with #rss_memory #read_later) for your own tags and notes. The article’s text joins your search and Knowledge Graph.

AI

Summon — opens the AI assistant with your cursor’s context (current block, selection) already attached. See Summon assistant.

Assign to Summon (/assign) — hand a task to Summon to run in the background. Type it inline (/assign research the EV market), select text first, or use the whole current block; a task pill drops in at your cursor and the work runs in Summon’s task queue. When the task came from a block, that block is stamped #complete once it finishes.

Just for fun