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Choose where your notes are kept on the Mac

On the MacFree

Your library is the folder Soot keeps your notes in: each note is a Markdown file there, with its pictures and files beside it. You choose the folder when you first open Soot, and you can start another library or open a different one later.

On iPhone or iPad? Soot keeps your notes in the app, so there’s nothing to choose.

Opening a folder as your library doesn’t move or copy anything: Soot works on the files where they are. To bring in notes from another app, import them instead.

Start a new library

The first time you open Soot, click Start a new library in the welcome window. Choose where the folder goes, give it a name, and click Create.

If you already use Soot:

  1. Choose Soot ▸ Settings… and click Library.

  2. Click New library…

  3. Choose where the folder goes and give it a name. Soot suggests a folder called Notes in your home folder.

  4. Click Create.

Open another library

  1. Choose File ▸ Open Library…, or click Open library… in Soot ▸ Settings… ▸ Library.

  2. Choose the library’s folder and click Open.

A library you open for the first time starts with sync turned off. Each Soot account syncs one library.

See where your library is

Choose Soot ▸ Settings… and click Library. It shows your library’s folder and how many notes it holds. Click Show in Finder to open the folder.

If you use Soot Pro, keep your library out of cloud drives

A library in iCloud Drive, Dropbox, OneDrive or Google Drive works, but Soot can’t sync it with Soot Pro (why Soot Pro needs its own folder). When your library is in one of them, the Soot Pro tab in Soot ▸ Settings… names the service and has a button to move the library.

  1. Choose Soot ▸ Settings… and click Soot Pro.

  2. Click Move library…

  3. Choose a folder outside the service, such as your home folder, and click Move Here.

If the library is in iCloud Drive, Soot first downloads any notes iCloud Drive is keeping only online. Then it moves the library and opens it from its new location, with sync turned off. To sync it again, click Sign in… in the Soot Pro settings and sign in to your Soot account.

Move a library that isn’t in a cloud service

  1. Quit Soot.

  2. Move the library’s folder in Finder.

  3. Open Soot and choose File ▸ Open Library…, then choose the folder in its new place.

The library opens with sync turned off. If you use Soot Pro, sign in to your Soot account again in the Soot Pro settings.

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