Columns
Put blocks side by side. Type "/2 columns" or "/3 columns", or drag any block to the left or right edge of another one. Drag the gutter between columns to resize them, and everything you can normally write works inside a column.
Notes don't have to be one long stack. Anywhere you're writing — a Page, an entry's note, a Collection description — you can put blocks side by side in two or three columns.
Make columns
Two ways, whichever feels quicker:
- Type it. On an empty line, type
/and choose 2 columns or 3 columns. You get an empty row with the cursor in the first column, ready to type. - Drag it. Grab any block by its ⠿ handle and drop it on the left or right edge of another block. A vertical line shows where it will land, and the two blocks end up beside each other. Drop another block on the edge of an existing row to add a third column.
On a phone, use the 2 cols / 3 cols buttons on the toolbar above the keyboard.
What can go in a column
Anything. Headings, lists, to-dos, quotes, code, tables, images, links, bookmarks, YouTube embeds, toggles with things nested inside them — a column is just a normal piece of the note that happens to sit next to another one. The slash menu works inside a column exactly as it does anywhere else.
Resize
Hover the gap between two columns and drag. The two columns either side share the space between them — the others don't move — and one undo puts the whole drag back the way it was.
Delete a row
Clear everything out of the columns, then press Backspace at the start of the empty row. The row disappears and you're back to a normal line.
On a phone
Phone screens are too narrow for real side-by-side columns, so a row you made on a computer shows stacked — first column, then the second — with a faint line between them. Nothing is lost: open the same note on a computer and your columns are exactly as you left them.
In the Kaizendex phone app, columns are read-only for now. You can see everything in them; editing the blocks inside a column is something you do on a computer.
A note on search and exports
Search, card previews, and plain-text exports read your note as one flowing document, so a row of columns reads as its blocks one after another. That's just how plain text works — your actual note keeps its layout.