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id: notes
title: Notes
category: Notes
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![Fig 1. Note options under Settings → Resources → Notes](notes-1.jpg)

Drop a note anywhere on the chart to mark something worth remembering — a
good anchorage, a hazard, a spot to check next time you're through.

**To add a note**, open the edit menu (pencil icon) and choose **Add Note**,
then tap the chart where you want it.

**To work with an existing note**, tap it on the chart. By default this
opens a quick popover with **Move**, **Edit**, **Delete**, and **Info**
(the info panel or a details dialog, depending on your **Prefer Info-Panel**
setting under **Settings → Display**). If you'd rather skip that popover and
go straight to the note's details, turn on **Single Click for Note Details**
under **Settings → Resources → Notes** — a single tap then opens the details
directly, and the details view itself offers **Move**, **Edit**, and
**Delete**, so you don't lose anything by skipping the popover.

A note with rich content — an embedded image, or a graph like the one on a
tide-station note — resizes its details dialog to fit, instead of clipping
the content or forcing you to scroll in two directions.

**The rest of the note options** live in that same **Settings → Resources →
Notes** group. **Display Notes on Map** turns notes off entirely, and
**Notes Zoom Level** sets how far in you have to be zoomed before they
appear — between them, that's how you stop notes cluttering a
passage-planning view.
**Fetch Notes radius** controls how far around the chart center notes are
retrieved from the server (a fresh fetch is triggered once the center moves
more than half that distance), and **Notes fetch filter** narrows what comes
back. The remaining two concern groups: **Edit Group Names** makes a note's
group editable in the note editor, and **Position Group Note** asks you to
place a new group note on the chart rather than adding it without a position.
