Create
Click New note at the top of the left sidebar. There is also a plus in the note list header, and a New note button if the vault is empty. Keyboard:⌘⌥N / Ctrl+Alt+N. Browsers usually steal ⌘N for a new window, so the button is the path that actually has to work. ⌘K then “New note” also creates one.
The note files into the folder selected in the sidebar. If nothing is selected, or you are looking at a date folder, Ela files it under today.
The new note opens immediately, untitled, with an empty body.
Edit
Open a note from the list. Title at the top, body below. There is no Save button. Ela writes after you pause typing. A Saved indicator shows in the header, then fades. Type/ for headings, lists, tasks, and the rest of the slash menu. @ and [[ link to other notes.
If a note uses formatting the editor cannot preserve byte-for-byte, Ela makes it read-only and tells you to edit the file directly. On a read-only vault, New note is hidden. Edit the markdown on disk. Ela re-indexes it.
Delete
Open the note. In the footer, open the⋯ menu, choose Delete…, and confirm. That removes the file. There is no trash.
Archive is next to that menu. It hides the note from the active list without deleting the file. Find it again under Archived in the sidebar, then Restore.
The folder is the note. Create, edit, and delete in the app change the file on disk. Edit the file somewhere else and Ela picks up the change on the next index. The app is a window onto the folder, not a second copy of your notes.