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Guides for the Sidekick Note web app and Chrome extension — from your first note to private notebooks, AI and shortcuts.

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  1. Protection & private notebooksStandard protection for every note by default; private notebooks with their own passphrase and recovery code for end-to-end privacy.
  2. Troubleshooting & FAQSign-in trouble, an old page or DNS cache, stuck sync, a lost private-notebook passphrase, and reloading the extension.
  3. Notes & notebooksCreate notes, use Views and Notebooks, add an icon and a cover, star, pin to a page, move, and restore from Trash.
  4. Sharing a notePublish links with chat previews, live or snapshot, password, expiry and custom addresses; the Shared view; Duplicate to my Sidekick; end-to-end private links.
  5. Getting startedSign in with IDUnify, pick Retro or Clean, write your first note, and choose between the web app and the Chrome extension.
  6. Tour of the screenOne annotated screenshot of the web app and one of the Chrome Side panel, with the name of every part.
  7. UI names (glossary)The official name of every part of Sidekick Note — the words we use in the app, in these guides and in our replies.
  8. TemplatesStart a note from a built-in template (daily note, meeting, trip plan, meal plan …) or your own; insert ready-filled card presets. English and Thai, with live cards.
  9. Search, ⌘K Command palette & tagsFind any note fast, filter by #tag, and run actions, tools and themes from the Command palette.
  10. ImagesPaste, drop or link images, and draw on them: arrows, text, numbered steps, blur, crop. Encrypted on your device before upload; size limits per plan.
  11. AI: menu, chat and privacy⌘J AI menu, the change preview, smart paste, AI chat with Context chips, models, credits — and exactly what is sent.
  12. Chrome extensionInstall the beta, open the Side panel, pin notes to pages, capture selections and use page AI.
  13. Export & importTake your notes anywhere as .md, .html or one .zip, import Markdown files, folders, Obsidian vaults and Notion exports, and bring notes over from the old Sidekick extension.
  14. Import notesBring in Markdown files, a folder, or exports from Obsidian, Notion, Bear, Joplin, Logseq, Evernote, Google Keep and Day One, Word documents, EPUB books and saved web pages (or a .zip of them): the preview, what is converted, how to undo and what to do if something looks wrong.
  15. Plans & AI creditsEverything is free during the beta. Plus and Pro come later. How AI credits work.
  16. What's newThe latest changes to the web app, the Chrome extension and this help center.

Topics

Getting started

Sign in, write your first note and learn the names of the parts.

Notes & writing

Notebooks, Markdown, search, the Command palette and images.

AI

The AI menu, change preview, AI chat, credits and privacy.

Sync, protection & sharing

Devices and Save now, private notebooks, encrypted share links.

Look, layout & keys

Nine themes, folding panes and every keyboard shortcut.

Chrome extension

Notes beside the page: the Side panel, pins, capture and page AI.

Your data & account

Export and import, plans and credits, fixes for common problems.

For your team

Admin pages and roles, for the Sidekick Note team.