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description: Annotate your workflows using sticky notes.
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Sticky Notes
Sticky Notes allow you to annotate and comment on your workflows.
n8n recommends using Sticky Notes heavily, especially on template workflows, to help other users understand your workflow.
Create a Sticky Note
Sticky Notes are a core node. To add a new Sticky Note:
- Open the nodes panel.
- Search for
note. - Click the Sticky Note node. n8n adds a new Sticky Note to the canvas.
Edit a Sticky Note
- Double click the Sticky Note you want to edit.
- Write your note. This guide explains how to format your text with Markdown. n8n uses markdown-it, which implements the CommonMark specification.
- Click away from the note, or press
Esc, to stop editing.
Change the color
To change the Sticky Note color:
- Hover over the Sticky Note
- Select Change color
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Sticky Note positioning
You can:
- Drag a Sticky Note anywhere on the canvas.
- Drag Sticky Notes behind nodes. You can use this to visually group nodes.
- Resize Sticky Notes by hovering over the edge of the note and dragging to resize.
- Change the color: select Options
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Writing in Markdown
Sticky Notes support Markdown formatting. This section describes some common options.
The text in double asterisks will be **bold**
The text in single asterisks will be *italic*
Use # to indicate headings:
# This is a top-level heading
## This is a sub-heading
### This is a smaller sub-heading
You can add links:
[Example](https://example.com/)
Create lists with asterisks:
* Item one
* Item two
Or created ordered lists with numbers:
1. Item one
2. Item two
For a more detailed guide, refer to CommonMark's help. n8n uses markdown-it, which implements the CommonMark specification.
Make images full width
You can force images to be 100% width of the sticky note by appending #full-width to the filename:
