User Guide

Here a few tips & tricks to get you well started with Mimiri Notes.

If you are new to Mimiri, this guide will give you a good introduction to the features and how to use them.

But first things first - download and install the latest version for your desired device.
Then create a new account:

• choose your username carefully as this cannot be changed and needs to be unique
  
• use a secure password, but make sure you have a way to remember it
1. Warning: Due to the way we protect your data we cannot recover your account if you forget it!

Login and you are now ready to create your first note.

When starting out you will likely want to create a root note.
You can either use the toolbar button for this or go via File -> New Root Note.

You will notice there is a very similar toolbar button next to it called New Note - you can use this to add a sub-note under the currently selected note - or you can simply right-click any existing note and select New Note from the context menu.

Your notes can be organizied hierarchially in a treeview.

However, you wont find folders in Mimiri Notes - instead every note can simply contain other notes underneath it - or in other words, a note is also a folder.

This can be quite practical because sometimes you want to store a note at a folder-level and with Mimiri this has always been a design principle. Another principle is that you are in control - you design this hierarchy however fits you!

To search globally throughout all your notes simply use the search bar at the top or the toolbar button on mobile.

To search within a note press ctrl + f (⌘ + f on mac) to bring up the search box.

While you can always use the save button in the toolbar or ctrl + s (⌘ + s on mac), your notes are also automatically saved whenever you give focus to another application or if you select another note - this ensures you will not loose any unsaved work.
In case you saved something unintentionally, it is always possible to recover the previous version from the note history.

In general we believe notes should be simple and not contain a lot of formatting - thus the note toolbar in Mimiri does not contain a lot of formatting options by design.

We do however support a few special syntaxes that adds valuable functionality:

Mark as Password
Sometimes in a note you may want to store a login or other sensitive data - for this we recommend using the Mark as Password feature.

To do so, simply wrap the password or sensitive information in a password paragraph using the syntax: p`123abc` or select and press ctrl + shift + c (⌘ + shift + c on mac). This will then become p`******` and you can easily copy it to your clipboard by double-clicking or on touch-devices long-pressing it. This prevents exposing these in the case someone else is looking over your shoulder or you are connected to an external screen for a meeting session.

Note: As a principle any special syntax is always visible in the editor, we do not remove any characters, and thus these can easily be edited or removed again - there is no edit / presentation mode toggling in Mimiri Notes.

By default Mimiri Notes is hidden when you share your screen in a call or take a screenshot.
This is for security reasons. It would be unfortunate if your private data is exposed in a screen sharing session.
Likewise when you take a screenshot it is not uncommon for these to be uploaded to cloud services e.g. OneDrive or Dropbox which could cause leakage of sensitive data.

You can toggle this behavior from the camera icon in the title bar.
If it is yellow sharing / screenshotting is allowed.

We recommend keeping Mimiri Notes hidden as your default option and only enable it temporarily when you have a need.

You can access the history of any note via the history toolbar button.
We are aware the experience is somewhat rudimentary at this stage, but you can see the timestamps and what the note looked like at a given time.

For recovery simply copy and paste the content into the current note (make sure to close the history view between as this is read-only)

We currently do not support a proper diff view, but we plan to bring this feature eventually.

As a paid subscriber you will be able to share notes with others. This includes whole hierarchies of notes and of course the same security principles apply ensuring only you and those you have chosen to share with can read the content.
This is a great way to share credentials or confidential information for small businesses or between friends.
Simply right click a note and choose share to start the process - make sure you know the username of your friend or colleague as they will have to accept the request on their side.

Your data is cached locally in encrypted form.
This means that even if you are offline you can still log in and view the cached data.

However, at this stage we do not support editing notes while offline so everything is read-only. We are aware that this is a highly requested feature and are contemplating adding support eventually.

Mimer notes is always readily accessible from your systems systray - simply click the icon to open the main window.
You can also right-click the icon to access a few additional options:

• Show: Opens the main window
• Dev Tools: Pasting us the content of the console, might help us investigate an issue
• Allow Screen Sharing: Toggle on or off - also affects screenshots
• Keep Tray Icon Visible: Forces the systray icon to be visible next to the clock
• Show in Taskbar: Can be used to hide the main window from the taskbar if you prefer
• Launch on Startup: Start together with your operating system so Mimiri is always available