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title: "Selecting, moving & deleting"
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Selecting a note always selects everything nested under it. There's no
way to select a note without its children.

## Selecting multiple notes

To select every note between two notes, click the first one's bullet and
drag to the other. Shift-click extends a selection from the note you already
have selected.

While you edit a note, press **Cmd/Ctrl-A** to select the note itself. Press
it again to select every note on the page.

Selecting all of a note's text is the same as selecting the note, however
you do it: dragging across it, triple-clicking it, or Shift and the arrow
keys. Start typing and your text replaces the note's.

Press **Escape** to collapse a selection back to a single caret.

### Selecting with the keyboard

When nothing is selected or being edited, press the up or down arrow key
to highlight a note without opening it. Keep pressing to move the highlight.

- **Shift-Up** or **Shift-Down** turns the highlight into a selection,
  extending it a note at a time.
- **Enter** opens the highlighted note for editing instead, caret at the
  end.
- **Backspace** or **Delete** deletes the highlighted note.
- **Left** and **Right** fold and unfold the highlighted note.

Selecting a note that's folded shut selects its hidden children too. A
fold only hides notes from view. It doesn't take them out of a selection.

With a selection, **Cmd-Up** folds every selected note that has
children, and **Cmd-Down** unfolds them. The selection ends so you see
the result.

### Selecting on a touchscreen

Drag two fingers down over the notes to select them. A bar appears at
the bottom with **Copy**, **Publish**, and **Cancel**. Cancel dismisses
the selection.

Drag any selected note sideways to indent or outdent the whole selection
at once, the same as **Tab** and **Shift-Tab** do. The selection moves one
level per drag, and it stays selected after it lands.

Drag further to the left, past the last indent the selection can take, and
every selected note turns red. Release there to delete them all. One
**Cmd/Ctrl-Z** brings the whole selection back. To cut, copy the notes and
then delete them this way.

Publish needs Cloud Sync to be on. Hold the button until its ring fills.
After you publish, the button stays greyed out for 30 seconds while its
ring drains.

## Moving a note

You can move a note up or down among the notes at the same level. The
notes nested under it move with it. To put a note under a different
parent, move it into place, then press **Tab** or **Shift-Tab**.

**On a Mac**, hold **Cmd** and drag the note up or down. You can grab it
anywhere on its line. The pointer turns into a hand when you hold **Cmd**
over a note and move the pointer. The other notes slide apart to show
where it lands. Once the drag starts, you can let go of **Cmd**. To put the note back
where it was, press **Escape** before you let go of it. On
a Force Touch trackpad, you feel a tick each time the landing spot
changes.

**On a touchscreen**, put three fingers on the note and drag. The note
lifts and follows your fingers, and you feel a tick each time the landing
spot changes. It lands where you lift your fingers. A fourth finger
cancels the move.

Hold the note near the top or bottom edge of the window and the page
scrolls, faster the closer you get. It still only moves among the notes
at its own level.

**With the keyboard**, press **Cmd/Ctrl-Shift-Up** or
**Cmd/Ctrl-Shift-Down** to move the note you're editing, or the
highlighted note, one place at a time.

## Deleting a note

**A note with no children** deletes when you press **Backspace** at the
start of its empty line.

**A note with children** loses its own text on the first **Backspace**.
A second **Backspace** does nothing until you outdent its children.

**A selection of several notes** deletes all of them, children included,
when you press **Backspace**.

**On a touchscreen**, drag a note left past where it would outdent, and
keep going. It turns red along with everything nested under it. It turns
red at the same distance for every note, however deeply it's indented.
Release to delete, or drag back right to cancel. The same drag on a
selection deletes every selected note.

Every delete is one undo step.

## Undoing and redoing

Press **Cmd/Ctrl-Z** to undo, **Cmd/Ctrl-Shift-Z** to redo. Every change
you make, such as typing, deleting, indenting, or moving a note, is one
undo step.

**On a touchscreen**, use the keyboard toolbar's Undo button, or tap with
two fingers anywhere on the screen. A two-finger tap works even with no
keyboard on screen, such as right after you drag a note away to delete it.

Undo and redo put you back where you were: in the note itself if you were
typing when you pressed the key, or in browse mode if you weren't.