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Organizing your library

Onnoir gives you several ways to arrange work. You do not need all of them on day one. Start with notebooks, then add the other spaces when they solve a real problem.

Before you start

Create at least one notebook. The rest of the workspace is easier to understand once there is real content to organize.

Step-by-step

  1. Use Shelf as the home for notebooks.
  2. Use Today for quick captures and the running thread of the day.
  3. Use Cabinet for images, recordings, films, documents, and other media.
  4. Use Threads to group related notebooks.
  5. Use Collections when you want a curated or rule-based view.
  6. Use Cardboard for cards and lightweight planning.
  7. Use Atlas to inspect relationships such as backlinks.
  8. Use Trash to review and restore archived or trashed items.

What to expect

The same work can appear in more than one organizational view. A notebook can be on the Shelf, related through backlinks in Atlas, grouped by a Thread, and surfaced by a Collection. That does not mean copies were created.

Safety notes

Trash and archive flows are designed to be reversible for normal user actions, but they are not a backup strategy. Use .onbk backups for recovery from device, disk, or app-level failure.

Troubleshooting

If something disappears from one view, check whether the view is filtered, archived, or scoped to a specific notebook. Search can also find notebooks, chapters/pages, Cabinet items, Today captures, Collections, and indexed document text.