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title: Meta Sidebar
description: Inspect note information, properties, and related notes.
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The Meta Sidebar opens on the right side of Octarine and follows the note or Inbox capture in the focused pane.

Open it with the right-sidebar button in the top-right breadcrumb, or press `Cmd/Ctrl + /`. The sidebar remembers the last tab you used.

## Note Info

The **Note Info** tab shows read-only information about the current item:

- Created and last-updated times
- Word, character, and line counts
- Estimated reading time
- Notes, media, and external files linked from the current note

When text is selected, the statistics show the selection alongside the total for the document.

Backlinks and plain-text mentions are no longer shown in this tab. Use [References](/note-management/references) to see which notes point to the current note.

## Properties

The **Properties** tab is where you add and edit YAML frontmatter for the current note. You can apply a note type, add existing workspace properties, create new definitions, reorder rows, generate suggestions with AI, and use the actions menu to copy or manage the current properties.

Properties require a Pro License. See [Properties](/note-management/properties) for property types, frontmatter examples, and workspace-level management.

Inbox captures also expose a Properties tab, but Octarine hides the lifecycle fields it manages itself.

## Related Notes

The **Related Notes** tab uses the local embedding index to suggest notes with similar meaning. It requires a Pro License and is unavailable for Inbox captures.

You can open a suggestion, preview it, or save it as a deliberate relationship in the current note's `oct.related` frontmatter. See [Related Notes](/note-management/related-notes) for setup and indexing details.

## Outline

The document outline now lives inside the editor rather than in the Meta Sidebar. Use the in-editor outline control or the **Table of Contents** command to jump between headings. See [Outline Navigation](/note-management/outline-navigation).

#### Quick Answers

### How do I open the Meta Sidebar?

Click the right-sidebar button in the top-right breadcrumb, or press `Cmd/Ctrl + /`.

### Where did backlinks move?

Open **References** from the editor, Command Bar, or `Cmd/Ctrl + Shift + R` to see linked references and plain-text mentions.

### Where did the Outline tab move?

The outline is now displayed inside the editor and is also available through the **Table of Contents** command.