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Writing & editing notes

Learn about Writing & editing notes in WaymakerOS.

NotesEditingArchive
Last updated: June 22, 2026•5 minutes read

Notes in MyVault are plain markdown — easy to write, easy to read, and something your AI assistant understands natively. This guide covers writing and editing notes in Commander (web), how archiving works, and how to bring existing notes in.

Create a note or folder

From the MyVault area in Commander:

  1. Use the New note button to start a note (it opens in the editor, ready to type).
  2. Use New folder to group related notes. Folders can be nested as deep as you like.
  3. Your work saves automatically as you type — there's no Save button to remember.

You can also ask your AI assistant: "Create a note in my vault under research/2026 called market-scan."

The editor: Live and Source

The editor has two modes, switched from the toolbar:

ModeWhat you seeBest for
LiveYour markdown rendered in place — headings, bold, lists, tables, and links look finished while you type.Day-to-day writing and reading.
SourceThe raw markdown characters, exactly as stored.Fine-grained edits, pasting, or fixing formatting.

Both modes edit the same note — switching never changes the file, just how it's shown.

Formatting you can use

MyVault notes support standard markdown plus a couple of extras:

  • Headings, lists, quotes, and code blocks — the toolbar has buttons, or type the markdown directly.
  • Tables — write a normal markdown table and it renders as a clean grid in Live mode. Click into it to edit the raw rows, click out to see the grid again.
  • Links — [text](https://…) for any web link.
  • Wiki-links — type [[Another Note]] to link to another note in your vault. These show as a chip you can click to jump straight there — handy for building a connected web of notes.
  • Insert menu — add a table, code block, image, or wiki-link without typing the markup.

Version history

Every save is a new version. Open a note's history from the toolbar to see earlier versions and restore one if you need to. Nothing is ever quietly overwritten — you can always get an earlier draft back.

If the same note is changed in two places at once (say, the web editor and your IDE), Commander notices and offers to keep your edits or take the other version — your work is never silently lost.

Archiving vs deleting

These are two different things:

ActionWhat happensHow to get it back
ArchiveThe note is moved out of your folder tree into the Archive — kept safely, just out of the way.Open Archive in the sidebar and Restore it.
Delete permanentlyThe note is removed for good.It's gone — use archive if you might want it later.

Where archived notes live. Archived notes do not appear in your normal folder tree — that's the point, they're tucked away. To find them, click Archive in the MyVault sidebar; the count next to it shows how many are filed there. Archive is the right home for things you're done with but don't want to lose.

Editing in your IDE? When you clone your vault as a folder, archived notes sit in an archive/ folder. That folder is reserved for archived items — if you're adding or importing notes, put them in a normal folder so they show up in your tree.

Importing existing notes

Bringing notes in from another tool (Evernote, Obsidian, a folder of markdown)? A few things to know:

  • Imported notes land in a visible folder you choose — Commander won't let an import drop notes into the reserved Archive area, so they always appear in your tree.
  • If your export is raw clippings with no folders, expect them to arrive in one folder. You can then ask your AI assistant to organise them by theme — "sort my Imported Notes folder into topic folders" — and it will file them for you.
  • For large imports, your AI assistant or the CLI handles the upload in batches.