Desktop and phone

SILOs, tags and layouts

Give each part of your life its own compartment, let hashtags route notes automatically, and arrange the list the way you think.

Creating and editing SILOs

1On the desktop, click the + beside the SILOS heading in the left rail. On the phone, open the drawer and tap Create New SILO.
2Give it a name, an icon and an accent colour. The colour is what you will actually recognise it by in the list.
3Optionally nest it under another SILO, up to four levels deep: Projects › LOOM Engine › D&D SRD 5e, or Journal › 2026 › October.
4Set a default SILO so new notes land somewhere sensible without being asked.

The SILO drawer on Android showing several SILOs with colours and gear icons — Each SILO has a colour, a gear for its settings, and a chevron to expand its sub-SILOs.

Hashtags route notes for you

Write #travel anywhere in a note and it becomes a tag. If a SILO matches that tag, the note also shows up there without leaving the SILO it lives in. This is how one note can sit in Work and still appear under Travel.

Tags are captured as you type, no separate step.
You can also add tags in the tag field under the note title.
A note keeps one home SILO. Hashtag membership is additional, not a move.

Six ways to see your notes

Switching SILO, then through four of the six layouts.

The layout button beside the search box changes how the list is drawn. All six are on both platforms.

Classic: What it gives you: The original card list, with a preview under each title.

Pinned Shelf: What it gives you: Starred notes as a swipeable shelf across the top.

Compact Rows: What it gives you: Roughly twice the notes per screen, with colour stripes.

Gallery Grid: What it gives you: Two columns of colour-washed cards.

Timeline: What it gives you: Grouped by date: Today, Yesterday, and so on.

Zen List: What it gives you: Titles only. Nothing else.

Layout	What it gives you
Classic	The original card list, with a preview under each title.
Pinned Shelf	Starred notes as a swipeable shelf across the top.
Compact Rows	Roughly twice the notes per screen, with colour stripes.
Gallery Grid	Two columns of colour-washed cards.
Timeline	Grouped by date: Today, Yesterday, and so on.
Zen List	Titles only. Nothing else.

The note list in Compact Rows layout — Compact Rows.

The note list in Gallery Grid layout — Gallery Grid.

The note list grouped by date in Timeline layout — Timeline.

The note list in Zen List layout showing titles only — Zen List.

Sorting, pinning and locking

Sort by newest, oldest, recently updated, title, or storage size. Pinned notes float to the top unless you tick Ignore Pinned notes (sort inline).

The Home Layout picker on Android — The layout picker.

The Sort Notes By dialog on Android — Sort options, including by storage size.

The sort menu open on the desktop — The same options on the desktop, with the pinned-notes toggle at the bottom.