Every note keeps its own revision history, so a bad edit is never permanent.
Open it
Note menu → Version history, with the note open — either in the side panel over the list or on its full page. A panel lists snapshots newest first, each showing a timestamp and that version's title.
If a note has not been edited enough to snapshot yet, you will see "No version history yet".
What a version contains
This is the part worth understanding before you restore anything.
Each snapshot captures the note as it was before a save — not the text you just typed. So the newest entry in the list is the state immediately prior to your most recent edit, and your current text is what is on screen, not in the list.
Put another way: the list is a series of "before" pictures. To get back the text from an hour ago, pick the snapshot from around that time and preview it.
Preview before you restore
Click Preview on any version to expand it read-only, right in the panel. Nothing changes and you do not navigate away — click again to collapse.
Always preview first. It is the only way to confirm you are restoring the version you actually want.
Restore
Click Restore. You will be asked to confirm:
Restore this version? Your current note will be saved as a new version first.
That second line matters: restoring is itself reversible. Your current content is snapshotted before being overwritten, so if you restore the wrong version you can restore back.
Restoring brings back the title, content, and the tags the note had at that moment. Its links follow the restored text: a note it linked to in that version lists it under backlinks again, and links you added since disappear. You will see "Version restored" when it completes.
One caveat: if a tag has been deleted from your workspace since the snapshot, it cannot come back — it no longer exists. Everything else restores.
How snapshots are captured
Snapshots are automatic. You never press save.
A new version is captured at most once every 5 minutes while you edit
Versions are kept for 30 days, then removed by cleanup
Your first edit to a note always creates one
Every change AI chat or a connected assistant makes — an edit, a rewrite, a rename — takes its own snapshot, however soon after your last one, so any single change can be rolled back
The 5-minute spacing keeps the list readable. A long writing session produces a handful of meaningful checkpoints rather than hundreds of keystroke-level entries.
What it does not do
Set expectations honestly:
No diff or compare view. You preview a whole version; there is no side-by-side highlighting of what changed.
No naming or labelling versions. The list is timestamps only, and untitled notes show just the timestamp.
No version limit. Retention is purely time-based — there is no cap on how many versions a note accumulates inside its 30 days.
Version history vs. undo
Two different tools, and using the wrong one is the most common confusion:
You want to... | Use |
|---|---|
Roll back note content | Version history |
Undo a delete, board card move, or property change |
|
Undo typing you just did | The editor's own undo, also |
⌘Z does not roll back note text across sessions — see Undo and the Bin.
A note on attachments
Files referenced by an older version are kept while that version still exists. Once versions age out at 30 days, files that nothing references any more are cleaned up. So restoring a 3-week-old version still shows its images; restoring one older than the retention window is not possible at all.