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Manual rename, move & delete

Reorganize your notes right in the Notes list — and let Minerva keep your links pointing to the right place as you go.

Rename, move, delete

Everything you need is in the right-click menu on a note, or a simple drag.

Rename
Right-click a note and choose Rename. You can also start it from the command palette by searching Rename Note.
Move
Drag a note onto the folder you want it in. Prefer to type a destination? Use Move Note from the command palette.
Delete
Right-click and choose Delete. See Safe delete & dangling links for how Minerva warns you if other notes still point to it.
Cut / Copy / Paste
The right-click menu also offers cut, copy, and paste — another way to move or duplicate notes between folders.
Right-clicking a note in the Notes list opens its menu, with Rename, Delete, cut, copy, paste, and the rest of the per-note actions.
The right-click menu on a note

Your links stay correct

When you rename or move a note, Minerva finds every other note that links to it and updates those links for you, so nothing breaks:

Wiki links
A link like [[old title]] becomes [[new title]] everywhere it appears. Any custom display text or heading you added to the link is kept intact.
Links and images to files
Links to other notes and to images are adjusted so they still point to the right file, both from the note you moved and from the notes that link to it.

Citations that point to a source or a saved quote keep working on their own — they refer to the source itself, not to where a note happens to live, so moving a note never disturbs them.

Renaming folders

You can rename or move a whole folder by dragging it, just as you would a single note. Object views limited to that folder follow it too — both views saved in notes and view tabs you have open — so they keep showing the same notes.