What Views Does Flotes Offer for Notes and Learning?

Flotes provides four interactive views on top of plain Markdown notes: Study, Canvas, Wiki, and Summary. Each view serves a different purpose — reviewing material, mapping ideas spatially, connecting concepts, or compiling long-form content. You can switch between them without converting or duplicating your notes, because all views read from the same Markdown source.

Study View: Turn Notes into Review Sessions

Study view is built for active recall. It converts your notes into fill-in-the-blanks and concealed sections, so you test yourself rather than re-reading.

• Fill-in-the-blanks and concealed sections hide parts of your note and prompt you to recall them.
• Self-grading lets you mark how well you remembered each item.
• Spaced repetition schedules the next review based on your grading, so items you struggle with come back sooner and items you know well come back later.
• Progress tracking shows where you stand across your material.

This is the view to use when you have written notes and want to actually memorize them. The workflow is: write in Markdown, switch to Study, grade yourself, and let the spaced repetition algorithm decide when you see each item again.

Canvas View: Spatial Thinking on an Infinite Canvas

Canvas view places your notes on an infinite canvas where you can arrange and relate them visually.

• Group and link nodes to show how ideas connect.
• Embed web content directly alongside your notes.
• Export using the open JSON Canvas specification, so your canvas isn't trapped in Flotes.

Use Canvas when relationships matter more than sequence — brainstorming, mapping a topic, or planning a project. Because the export format is open, you can move the canvas elsewhere if needed.

Wiki View: Build a Second Brain with Backlinks

Wiki view turns your notes into a connected knowledge base.

• Backlinks connect related ideas in both directions, so you can see what links to a note, not just what it links to.
• Links are stored as standard Markdown links, which keeps them portable and compatible with export.

Use Wiki view when your notes accumulate over time and you want to navigate by association rather than by folder. Because the links are plain Markdown, the structure survives export.

Summary View: Aggregate Notes into Long-Form Content

Summary view pulls notes together into longer-form content.

• Aggregate notes into a single long-form piece.
• Suited to blog posts, documentation, or summarizing a notebook in one place.

Use Summary when you have scattered notes on one topic and want a single readable draft. It's the opposite direction from Study: instead of breaking notes into recall prompts, it combines them into prose.

Choosing Between the Views

You don't have to pick one permanently. The same Markdown notes feed all four views, so a typical pattern is to write once and then choose the view that matches the task at hand — Study before an exam, Canvas while planning, Wiki while researching, Summary while writing.

Practical Notes

• All views are built on plain Markdown, and Flotes supports free import and export with no lock-in.
• Notes are organized into Notebooks — customizable folders that hold these interactive views.
• Full-text search and sync across devices apply across your notes regardless of which view you're in.
• Flotes states it is free to use with unlimited notes and all views; check the pricing page for current details, since plan terms can change.

If your goal is to decide where to start: write your notes in Markdown first, then open Study view to begin reviewing, and add Canvas or Wiki links once your collection grows large enough to need them.