Paste, templates & shortcuts
The quality-of-life layer: paste that understands where text came from, reusable note templates, comments, and a keyboard that always does what you expect.
SmartCopy — paste that reads the room
Paste with ⌘V and Nomima looks at what you’re pasting and where it came from, then converts it into real blocks instead of a wall of flat text:
- AI chat answers (Claude, ChatGPT…) unpack into proper headings, lists, checkboxes, Databases, code blocks with the right language, Mermaid diagrams and rendered math.
- Source-aware cleanup — Slack pastes lose their markup junk but keep links; Outlook bullet salads become real lists; Excel ranges and web tables become Databases; GitHub code keeps its language.
- Tags on arrival —
@names,#tagsand dates in pasted text become smart pills. Code is exempt: a#in a comment stays a comment. - Safe by construction — scripts and
javascript:links are stripped; pasting can never run code.
Want it raw? ⌘⇧V pastes plain text with no interpretation at all.
Templates
- Use a template (free): when creating a notebook, pick a template and it starts with that structure — meeting notes, weekly review, whatever you’ve saved.
- Save as template: open the
⋯menu on any notebook and choose Save as template… — its block structure becomes reusable. Rename or delete templates from the same picker.
Version history — time travel
Open a notebook’s ⋯ menu and pick Version history… to scrub back through how a note grew, version by version. Drag the slider (or arrow-key it) and watch any past version replay as the real, rendered notebook — blocks that were added show tinted green, blocks that were deleted stay in place struck through in red — so you can see exactly what changed at each step.
- One snapshot per session — Nomima captures a version once per editing session, not on every keystroke, so the timeline stays meaningful.
- Restore, never lose — hit Restore to bring a past version back. It writes that version in as the live note and drops a restore-point marker on the timeline; your pre-restore work is already the newest auto-saved snapshot, so nothing is ever thrown away.
- Pin checkpoints — pin any version (the Pin icon) as a checkpoint that’s kept forever.
- Tidy by design — history is compressed and thinned as it ages. Settings → Vault shows the space it uses with a one-click Clear-all.
On-device: your version history stays on your Mac like the rest of your notes.
Comments & follow-ups
Select any text and add a comment. Threads support replies and a resolved state. Comment locations show as accent-colored dashes on the Smart Scrollbar — hover to peek, click to jump to the thread. Resolved threads fade out of the way.
Follow-ups give a completed item a running log. When you finish a checklist or section, click its ↳ button to open the side window on a Follow-ups tab — a timestamped trail of what you did next (“emailed @Sara”, “moved to tomorrow”) instead of cluttering the note with extra blocks. The entry box is a real editor: @ mentions, # tags and dates (“tomorrow”) all turn into Smart Tags as you type. A small ↳ marker stays in the margin so you can reopen the log anytime.
The Entity view
Click any @mention or #hashtag to open its card, then hit Expand for a full page about that person, company or tag: how often and where you've used it, how it ranks among your other tags, what it most often appears alongside (click to hop between entities), usage trends over time and by notebook, and how complete its profile is. If you've recorded the same thing two ways, Merge (in the card's Manage panel) folds one into the other — every mention is rewritten to the survivor (only within the same kind, so # tags and @ mentions stay separate).
Sharing & publishing
Publish any notebook to the web from its ⋯ menu — Nomima creates a pixel-exact, read-only page at read.nomima.io gated by a view-code. Edits auto-update the published page, and the raw note JSON never leaves your device. Free, like the rest of Nomima.
Keyboard reference
Nomima also ships this reference inside the app: press ⌘/ anywhere (or open Settings → Keyboard shortcuts) for a grouped list of every shortcut it responds to — general, navigation, Summon, writing & formatting, blocks & smart tags, and zoom. The tables below cover the same ground plus the editor-specific motions.
Markdown-style shortcuts
| Type | Get |
|---|---|
[] + space | Task list |
/ | Block menu |
@ / # | Mention / hashtag menu |
| “tomorrow 3pm” + space | Date pill |
Navigation & editing
| Keys | Action |
|---|---|
| ⌘K | Command palette — search notes, your reference library and commands (references appear in their own group) |
| Tab | Accept the suggested tag / ghost suggestion; indent in lists and code |
| Tab (in a Carousel) | Hop to the next card — and add a card when you Tab past the last one, so you build a strip by typing then tabbing. ⇧Tab steps back a card. |
| Enter | Accept tag suggestion; arm a reminder; jump from a block title into its body |
| Esc | Dismiss menus and ghosts; close Summon |
| ← → | Step across a pill as a single unit |
| ↑ ↓ | Move between lines normally — pills, blocks and lists never trap the caret |
| Backspace | Delete a whole pill in one keystroke; on an empty task list, delete the list |
| Triple-Enter / ↓ | Exit a code block — press Enter on two empty trailing lines, or arrow down past the end |
| ⇧Tab | Outdent in lists and code |
Staying up to date
Nomima checks for new versions quietly (it never auto-installs anything). When an update exists you’ll see a dismissible banner, and Settings → About always has a Check for updates button with a download link to the latest release.