Opening a note no longer throws away the list you were looking at.
Side panel
A plain click on a note — in Grid, Table, or Board view — now opens it in a side panel over the list instead of navigating to its page. Scroll position, filters, sort, search, board columns, and multi-select all stay exactly as they were.
The panel is the full editor, not a preview: tags, properties, child notes, linked notes, Similar Notes, version history, and sharing all work there.
JandK(or↑↓) step to the next and previous note in the current list order, so you can review a filtered set without going back to it each time. Hidden on the board, where columns have no single order.⌘↵, the toolbar's Open full page, or a middle-click on the card opens the note's own page as before. Cards are still real links, so "open in new tab" and "copy link address" are unchanged.Esc, the✕, browser back, or a click on the panel's left seam closes it.Escinside the title or editor leaves that field first.Drag the left seam to resize the panel between 480 and 1100 pixels. The width is remembered.
The open note is part of the URL (
?peek=…), so it survives a reload, can be shared or bookmarked, and re-sorting or re-filtering the list keeps it open.
On screens narrower than 768 pixels, notes continue to open as a full page.
Sidebar
The sidebar now collapses to a narrow rail. Click the seam on its right edge, or press
⌘\from anywhere.The AI chat panel closes the same way — a click on its seam.
Improvement
The note menu now offers Restore for a note that is in the Bin, so a note opened from the Bin is no longer a dead end.
Fix
Editing a note with unsaved changes while sorting, filtering, or typing in search no longer interrupts you with a "Saving note…" dialog.
A conflicting edit from another workspace member is no longer silently discarded when you navigate away from the note.
Background on the design decisions: The list you lose every time you open a note.