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Your First Look

Once Loud Outline is enabled, nothing changes about your file explorer until it finds something to show you.

  1. Open a note that has at least one heading — any level.
  2. Look at that note's row in the file explorer. A small collapse arrow now sits to the left of the filename, just like the one on a folder.
  3. Click the arrow (not the filename — that opens the note). The note's headings appear as indented rows underneath it, nested by level: an H2 sits under the H1 above it, an H3 under that H2, and so on.
  4. Click a heading row. If the note isn't already open, it opens; either way, the cursor jumps straight to that heading.
  5. If the note has any headings with their own subheadings, or any tasks/lists, you'll see further arrows nested inside — expand as deep as you like. Everything starts collapsed, so a big note doesn't flood the sidebar the moment you open its first-level arrow.

Close-up of a single note expanded three levels deep in the sidebar

Try it with a checklist

If Show tasks and lists is on (it is, by default — see Settings Reference), add a checklist under one of that note's headings:

## Groceries

- [ ] Milk
- [x] Eggs
  - [ ] Free-range, if they have them

Expand that heading in the tree and the checklist appears underneath it, checked items shown struck-through — including the nested sub-item, indented one level deeper again. Click any of them to jump straight to that line.

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