Finding, linking & moving your notes

Opening search

• Press ⌘ K on a Mac, or Ctrl K on Windows and Linux — from anywhere in the app, even while writing.
• Or press / while you're on the canvas.
• Or click the magnifying glass in the top bar.

How matching works

Type a few words. A note matches when every word appears somewhere in it — in its title, its body, or its address. Fewer words cast a wider net.

• Titles rank above body text, so the note that's about your words surfaces before notes that merely mention them.
• Addresses rank highest. Type 1a to jump straight to that branch of your web.
• With nothing typed, search shows all of your notes — an easy way to browse.

Every notebook at once

Search looks through all of your notebooks, not just the open one. Notes from other notebooks show the notebook's name on the right of the result. Choose one and Weave switches notebooks, centers the web on that note, and opens it — one motion, no clicking around.

Keyboard reference

From the note panel

Open a note and click into + Link to another note… under Connections. Start typing — a ranked list of your notes appears as you type, using the same matching rules as search. ↑ ↓ to choose, Enter to link. The box stays focused afterwards, so you can add several links in a row.

While writing: type [[

In a note's text, type [[ followed by a few letters of the note you mean. Pick a match and Weave inserts a readable reference — like [[1a · In your own words]] — and creates the connection at the same time. Your hands never leave the keyboard, and the link happens at the moment the thought does.

No match? The last row offers ＋ New branch note: it creates a fresh note as a branch of the one you're writing (a child address, like 1a1 under 1a), already titled with what you typed, linked, and referenced in your text.

On the canvas: hold ⇧ and drag

Hold Shift and drag from one dot to another. A dashed thread follows your pointer, the target lights up as you hover it, and releasing makes the link. Without Shift, dragging simply moves a note around — same gesture, two jobs.

Installing

• iPhone & iPad: open weaveideas.app in Safari, tap the share button, then Add to Home Screen. Weave gets its own icon and opens full-screen, like any app.
• Android: open weaveideas.app in Chrome and choose Install app from the menu (or tap the install prompt).
• Mac & Windows: in Chrome or Edge, click the install icon at the right end of the address bar. Weave opens in its own window with a dock/taskbar icon.

Installing is optional — everything works the same in a regular browser tab.

Offline

After your first visit, Weave keeps a copy of itself on your device. No connection? The app still opens, and your notes are right there — they live on your device first, always.

• Writing offline works fully. New notes, edits, links — everything is saved locally.
• Signed in? The sync badge shows Offline until you're back on a connection; changes sync when it returns.

What's free, forever

The whole app: unlimited notes and notebooks on this device, search, linking, import, export, offline. If you never sign in, Weave never even talks to a server.

Weave Sync — $42/yr or $4.50/mo · Lifetime — $89 once

Signing in and syncing across devices is the paid part. Every new account starts with a 31-day free trial — no card needed — so syncing and publishing work right away. When the trial ends, upgrade from the account menu (your avatar, top right) to keep going. Every plan unlocks the same things; yearly simply costs less than monthly, and Lifetime pays once. Checkout and card handling run on Stripe, and you can cancel any time from Manage billing.

Publishing — included with any plan

Paying users can put any notebook on the web as a read-only page: the graph, the notes, the links — explorable by anyone with the link, editable by no one. Open the notebook menu and choose Publish notebook · public link. Republish after changes to update the page; Unpublish takes it down instantly (that always works, even if your plan lapses).

Open the notebook menu (click your notebook's name in the top bar). At the bottom you'll find three export choices:

• Export notebook · Markdown — a readable .md file of the current notebook. Notes appear in address order (1, 1a, 1a1, 1b, 2…), each with its title, its text, and a line listing the notes it's linked to. Best for reading elsewhere or pasting into another app.
• Export notebook · JSON — a complete backup of the current notebook: every note with its address, color, position on the canvas, and all of its links.
• Export everything · JSON — all of your notebooks in a single file. This is the one to use for backups.

Files land wherever your browser saves downloads.

Step by step

1. Open the notebook menu — click your notebook's name in the top bar.
2. Choose Import notes · JSON…
3. Pick any file Weave exported — a single-notebook JSON or an "everything" backup.
4. That's it. Weave adds the file's contents and switches you to the first imported notebook.

What import does — and never does

• Import always creates new notebooks. It never merges into or overwrites the ones you have — restoring a backup can't destroy anything, even if you import the same file twice. (You'd simply get a duplicate notebook, which you can delete from the notebook menu.)
• Links come along. Connections between notes in the file are kept exactly. A link that points at a note missing from the file is dropped quietly.
• Colors, addresses, and canvas positions are preserved. Your web looks the way it did.
• Signed in? Imported notebooks sync to your account like everything else, and appear on your other devices.