Save an answer to a note

Keep a whole answer, or only the sentences you selected, in one of your notes, with its citations attached.

Before you start#

You need to be signed in, and the answer needs to have finished. Saving to a note works on every plan and doesn’t use any allowance.

Save a whole answer#

1. Under the answer, select Save to note in the row of actions. From the keyboard, press Ctrl+Shift+S (⌘+Shift+S on a Mac).
2. The header reads Save answer, with how many sources come with it, for example Save answer · 4 sources.
3. Choose where it goes:
   • one of your 3 most recently edited notes, listed first
   • a note you find by typing in Find a note…, which lists up to 6 matches
   • + New note “[the discussion’s title]”, which starts a note named after the discussion
4. Inkling confirms with the note’s name, for example “Saved to Leap second readiness · Open”. Open takes you to the note.

Save only part of an answer#

1. Select the sentences you want in the answer.
2. Select Save to note, or press the shortcut. The header now reads Save selection, for example Save selection · 2 sources.
3. Choose a note, as above.

Only the words you selected are saved, with only the citations inside them.

What you’ll see in the note#

The passage is added at the end of the note, or starts the new one, with its numbered citation chips. The Sources in this note column lists its sources under a line naming the answer and the day you saved it, followed by Open the answer, which goes back to the discussion it came from.

On a phone, the column is behind Sources 4 · Inkling (the number is the note’s count of sources) at the foot of the note.

A passage saved from a direct answer has nothing to cite, so the column marks it “From a direct answer · not sourced”. See Answers that didn’t need a search.

Limits#

Good to know#

• The shortcut isn’t available in Edge or Firefox, which use that key combination themselves. Use the Save to note button there.
• The shortcut opens Save to note for the answer your selection is in, or for the newest answer if nothing is selected. It does nothing while you are typing in a box.
• Figures aren’t carried into notes. When an answer or a selection contains one, the header says so, for example 1 figure not saved.
• If a note can’t take the passage, you see “That note is full. Save to a new note instead.”
• If you later delete the discussion, the passage and its sources stay in your note. Only Open the answer goes.
• The Share sheet also has Save to a note.
• On a phone, Save to note opens as a sheet from the bottom of the screen.