The default note type in Trilium, text notes allow for rich formatting, tables, images, admonitions and a handful of other features.

## Formatting bars

Most of the interaction with text notes is done via the built-in toolbars. Depending on preference, there are two different layouts:

- The Floating toolbar is hidden by default and only appears when needed. In this mode there are actually two different toolbars:
- A toolbar that appears when text is selected. This provides text-level formatting such as bold, italic, text colors, inline code, etc.

Fore more information see Formatting toolbar.

## Features and formatting

Here's a list of various features supported by text notes:

Dedicated article | Feature
--- | ---
General formatting | Headings (section titles, paragraph) Font size Bold, italic, underline, strike-through Superscript, subscript Font color & background color Remove formatting
Lists | Bulleted lists Numbered lists To-do lists
Block quotes & admonitions | Block quotes Admonitions
Tables | Basic tables Merging cells Styling tables and cells. Table captions
Developer-specific formatting | Inline code Code blocks Keyboard shortcuts
Footnotes | Footnotes
Images | Images
Links | External links Internal Trilium links
Include Note | Include note
Insert buttons | Symbols Math Equations Mermaid diagrams Horizontal ruler Page break
Other features | Indentation Markdown import Cut to subnote
Premium features | Slash Commands Templates Format Painter

## Read-Only vs. Editing Mode

Text notes are usually opened in edit mode. However, they may open in read-only mode if the note is too big or the note is explicitly marked as read-only. For more information, see Read-Only Notes.

## Keyboard shortcuts

There are numerous keyboard shortcuts to format the text without having to use the mouse. For a reference of all the key combinations, see Keyboard Shortcuts. In addition, see Markdown-like formatting as an alternative to the keyboard shortcuts.

## Content width

For readability purposes on wider screens, the width of text notes is limited via a configurable option. See Content width for more information.

## Technical details

For the text editing functionality, Trilium uses a commercial product (with an open-source base) called CKEditor. This brings the benefit of having a powerful WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) editor.