Bubble Menu

The bubble menu is your quick-access formatting toolbar that appears when you select text. It puts the most common formatting options right at your fingertips.

How to Use the Bubble Menu

1. Select any text in your note by clicking and dragging
2. The bubble menu automatically appears above your selection
3. Click any button to apply formatting
4. The menu disappears when you click elsewhere

Available Formatting Options

The bubble menu includes these formatting tools:

• All Basic formatting tools
• Highlight - Apply background highlighting
  • This is a dropdown that allows you to set a color for the highlight. Clicking on the same color on a highlighted text, de-highlights it.
• Add to Chat - Adds the selected text to the Writing Assistant as context.
• Create linked note from selection - Creates a note with the text selected (if it doesn’t contain invalid characters) and auto links it.

When the Bubble Menu Won't Appear

The bubble menu only appears when you select text in an editable note. It doesn't appear when:

• The note is locked or otherwise read-only
• The inline Writing Assistant is already open for the selection
• You've selected an image, video, link preview, code block, horizontal divider, or math block
• The selection is part of a regular link, doclink, or tag
• You've selected an entire table cell, row, or column using the table controls

The menu can still appear when you select text inside a table cell, but it only shows inline formatting options. Headings, links, block formatting, lists, Writing Assistant actions, and Create linked note from selection are hidden.

Inside a bullet, numbered, or task list, the heading, callout, code block, and quote options are hidden because those block types can't be applied to an individual list item.