Everything you have open lives in a strip of small tabs at the top of the workspace. You move between them from the strip's hover list, by keyboard, or by swiping.
The strip
Home is always the first tab and can't be closed - it's your fixed starting point (see home). After it come your open tabs, one per open item, each holding its place in the strip - the strip holds up to six tabs besides Home. Notes and tag pages sit side by side here: a tag page is a tab like any other.
Each tab is a small marker - a dot for a note, a pentagon for a tag, the star for Home, a dashed ring for a fresh empty tab. The resting strip is just this row of markers; hover it and a popover opens. Home sits at the top - click it to go Home - and below it every open tab is listed by name. Click a row to jump to it, or hover the row to reveal its close control. At the foot sits a New Tab row with its ⌘T hint.
Tabs work like a browser
Open a note or a tag - from search, a link, anywhere - and it fills the tab you're on, which keeps its place in the strip. If the item is already open somewhere, you simply switch to its tab - never a duplicate. Opening something while you're on Home starts a new tab instead: Home is never replaced.
Tabs don't expire - every tab stays until you close it. The one exception: anything that adds a tab instead of filling one - opening something while on Home, a new note with ⌘N, a dropped file, New Tab - can push the strip past its six-tab cap, and then the oldest tab - the leftmost after Home - drops off. It isn't lost, just closed: still in your library, a search away.
Close the active tab and you land on the last tab in the strip; close everything and you land on Home.
Empty tabs
Sometimes you want a clean slate without giving up what's open. ⌘T, File ▸ New Tab, or the New Tab row at the foot of the strip's popover opens a fresh empty tab - a dashed ring in the strip, listed in italics as Empty Tab in the popover. The editor greets you with "A fresh tab." - New Note and Open node buttons, and a reminder that ⌘O opens search. Just starting to type works too: any character begins a new note. Whatever you create or open from there fills the empty tab in place, so no blank tab is left behind.
Keyboard and swipe
- ⌘1 jumps to Home.
- ⌘2-⌘7 jump to the tab at that position in the strip - Home is position 1, so ⌘2 is the next tab along. They also live under View ▸ Open Tab.
- ⌘T opens a new empty tab; ⌘N opens a new note in its own tab.
- A horizontal swipe flips to the next or previous open item.
For the full list, see shortcuts.