tuno noteshow to use tuno notes
everything happens on one board. there is no menu to learn.
making a note
hit "new note" in the header. a card lands on the board with a title and an empty line. click any bare patch of the board and the panel that opens has "new note here", which puts one exactly where you clicked.
double-click a card to open it, then click any line and type. one click does not open anything, so brushing past a note leaves it alone. the card is the editor, so there is no save button and no separate writing mode.
type at the start of a line to change what it is:
#makes a heading-makes a bullet- [ ]makes a checkbox---makes a divider
**bold** and _italic_ work inside a line.
"add block" at the bottom of a card does the same thing with buttons if you would rather not remember the shortcuts.
moving and resizing
drag a card by the tape at the top, or by any part of it that is not text.
the corner handle resizes. squares and circles keep their proportions; everything else stretches freely.
the board grows as you push cards further out. drag one to the bottom and the page follows it down. the board is as wide as the window, so a card can sit right against the left edge as easily as the right.
if you would rather not drag: focus a card, press "move", and use the arrow keys. hold shift for bigger steps. the resize handle works the same way.
shapes and colours
double-click a card and its controls appear underneath. click away and they go, so a card at rest is only what you wrote.
six shapes, six colours. a new note starts on plain paper; colour is there for when one note needs to stand out from the rest.
backgrounds
every card carries its own pattern, and so does the page. "shuffle" draws a new one.
patterns are generated from a number, not stored as pictures, so the supply does not run out and nothing gets downloaded.
we only offer a pattern if the text on top of it still passes contrast. that check happens before you see it, not after.
your pet
open a card with "expand". the pet sits in the right-hand rail: name it, pick a colour, choose from 131 animals.
it is one pet, not one per note. change it anywhere and it changes everywhere. it lives in the expanded card, not on the board, so it does not come along into a downloaded file.
tuno, the cat in the header, is ours and does not change.
the board panel
click any bare patch of the board and a small panel opens where you clicked.
it holds the things that belong to the page rather than to one note: the page background, "write here" to drop a loose text at that spot, the reading font, and "delete everything".
it also lists anything you have hidden, so that is where you go to bring a piece back.
click away or press escape to close it.
making things go away
almost everything on this page can be removed. the headline, the note count, the footer shortcuts, the footer line, the small print. each one has a "hide" next to it.
what stays: the header, the mascot, and the credits at the bottom.
nothing is lost when you hide it. the board panel keeps a list and puts any of it back.
the page itself
the headline and the footer line are yours to rewrite. click and type.
both can be hidden. a small link brings them back if you change your mind.
a checkbox can be ticked without opening the card. that one is meant to be quick.
an image block wraps whatever you paste, so a tall picture does not sit between two white slabs. once the picture is in, the link field folds away; "change link" brings it back.
pictures
"download" in the header saves the whole board as a png. a single card has "save a picture" under it. the file lands in your downloads and no print dialog opens.
the picture is cropped to what is actually on the board, with the same margin on every side, and it carries the page background. a wide board makes a wide file; nothing is cut or rearranged to fit a paper size.
there used to be a pdf here and it is gone. it was one image on one page — a picture wearing a document's clothes, with text you could not select or search. a png says what it is. if you want the words back, keep the .tuno backup. that is the copy you can edit.
gifs come out on a single frame.
a picture loaded from another site can refuse to be drawn into the file. when that happens the download stops and the board tells you, rather than handing you a hole.
sending a board to somebody
"share this board as a link" in the board panel packs the whole board into the address itself. there is no server and nothing is stored anywhere — the notes ride in the link. the part after the # is never sent to any server by any browser, which is the only reason this can exist here.
whoever opens it sees your board with a line saying it is not theirs. their own board is untouched and nothing they change while visiting is kept. "keep this" copies it in as a new board of their own.
pictures on a visited board wait. an image is an address, and fetching one tells that site somebody is reading — a site the reader never chose. it shows the description with "load this picture" beside it, and that is their call to make.
a big board makes a link too long for chat apps and mail to carry, so past about eight thousand characters it refuses and tells you to send the .tuno file instead.
tying two notes together
open a card, press "tie a string", then pick another card. a line hangs between them and stays tied while you drag either one around. escape backs out.
click the string to cut it. delete a note and its strings go with it. nothing is ever tied for you and nothing is suggested — a string exists because you tied it.
finding things
press / and type. notes that do not match fade; they do not move and they do not leave. the board stays exactly where you built it and your eye does the rest. escape puts it back.
more than one board
the board panel keeps a list. "another board" starts an empty one, the name is a field you can type in, and switching writes the one you are leaving back before it picks up the next.
a backup holds all of them in one file. a backup written before there were several still opens — that one is a board.
taking it back
ctrl+z undoes the last thing you did to the board — a delete, a move, a resize, a colour, even "delete everything". shift with it to redo. it holds the last thirty steps.
typing is not in there. a text box has its own undo and this one stays out of its way, so ctrl+z inside a note takes back words, not the note.
the history lives in memory and nothing else. reload the page and it is gone — what survives is the board, not the road you took to it.
backups
your notes are in this browser and nowhere else. we never send them anywhere.
one exception: an image or gif you add is a link, so your browser fetches it from whoever hosts it. the link is stored, the picture is not.
that also means clearing your browser data deletes them, and no one can recover them for you. there is no account to log back into.
"backup" in the header writes one .tuno file with everything in it. "import" reads it back. do it now and then.
some browsers can do it for you. open the board panel and pick a file once; from then on the board writes itself there on every change, a couple of seconds behind. it is your disk and your file — nothing goes anywhere else, and there is nothing to sign in to.
the browser forgets the permission when you close it, so the panel asks once more before it starts writing again. if your browser cannot do this, the option is not there and the button is the whole story.
a .tuno file is gzipped json, nothing clever. any tool that can gunzip will open it, so a backup never depends on this site still existing.
keyboard
tab reaches every control, including the ones that only appear while you are editing.
arrow keys inside a text field move the cursor. they only move a card when you have turned on move mode.
"reading font" lives in the board panel and switches to atkinson hyperlegible.
if your system asks for reduced motion, nothing animates and gifs hold on their first frame.