Title

Alongside its content, the title is one of the two main attributes of a note. It's the short, human-readable name shown in the editable field at the top of every note, and it's what identifies the note throughout the interface (in the Note Tree, in tabs, in the Breadcrumb and win Internal (reference) links.

Internally, notes are identified by a unique Note ID rather than by their title, so the title is purely for your benefit. This has a few consequences:

• Titles don't have to be unique. You can have any number of notes that share the same title without conflict.
• Renaming a note never breaks links to it. Links between notes point at the underlying note, so changing a title leaves existing links intact (they'll simply display the new title).
• The title can be left empty. Notes with no title display a placeholder (type note's title here…) but are otherwise perfectly valid.

In addition:

• There is no limitation on the length of the title, however in exports the title might get trimmed.
• There are no forbidden symbols, unsupported characters will get trimmed when exporting.
• When exporting to a ZIP file, a meta file will contain the full title which will be recognized by Trilium when importing again.

Inline title

Text notes have a special title bar behavior in which the note title is initially displayed in a larger font, while also displaying additional information such as the creation and the modification date.

Whenever the title is scrolled past, the fixed title is shown instead.

Note types that take the entirety of the screen, such as Code and Canvas, will always have only the fixed title bar.

Under the note title, the New note type switcher appears if the note is empty.

Editing the title

To rename a note, simply click into the title field and type. Changes are saved automatically as you type.

You can also begin editing the title directly from the Note Tree by selecting a note and pressing Enter (see Edit note title in Keyboard Shortcuts), which focuses the title field for the active note.

Easily navigating between the title and the content

When the cursor is in the title field, pressing Enter moves focus into the note's content. For Text notes this also inserts a fresh empty paragraph at the very top of the document, so you can start writing immediately — much like other note-taking apps.

This makes it possible to create a note, type its title, press Enter, and continue straight into the body without reaching for the mouse.

Working with new notes

When you create a new note it's given a default title (new note) which is pre-selected, so you can type a name right away to replace it. The default title for new notes can be customized per-section — see Default Note Title.

If you decide you don't want the note after all, pressing Escape while the title of a freshly created note is still focused will discard it.

Automatically generated titles

Some notes get their titles assigned automatically rather than typed:

• Day, week, month and year notes in the Day Notes are named from a configurable date pattern.
• Saved Search notes are named after the search they perform.
• When a note is duplicated, a suffix is appended to the copy's title to tell it apart from the original.

Protected notes

The titles of Protected Notes are encrypted along with their content. Before entering your password, Trilium cannot decrypt the title: the note tree, the title field, the breadcrumb menus and the tabs label the note Protected, and the title cannot be modified.

Once you enter your password and a protected session is active, the real title is decrypted and displayed, and becomes editable again.