Turn a case note into a notebook entry

Write the note in the case while you remember it. Then use “Move to Notes…” in the case editor to make it a new note or append it to one you keep. The added text starts with a line naming the case. The new note is saved before the case note clears, and the case still links to the note.

By Christopher Cutler, MD, CA-1, anesthesiologyUpdated October 2026

The thing you learned is written on the case. Six months later you want it in the note where you keep that topic — not buried on a case you would have to find first.

1. 1

   Write the note on the case

   Every case has a private note. Write in it at the time, while you still remember which detail mattered.

2. 2

   Tap “Move to Notes…”

   Open the case, go to its note, and tap “Move to Notes…”. Capnolog offers two choices. Make this a new note of its own, or append it to a note you already keep.

3. 3

   The moved text names the case it came from

   Add the text to a note you already keep, and Capnolog writes one line above it. That line carries the case's id, its date, and the procedure. Months later, that line tells you which case a paragraph came from.

4. 4

   The move never loses your text

   The text is saved in Notes first, and the case's note is cleared only after that save succeeds. If the save fails, nothing changed — and the screen says exactly that. If the clear fails, the text is in both places and it says that too, rather than reporting a move that half happened.

   Undo puts the text back on the case first, for the same reason. At every step, the text exists somewhere.

5. 5

   Find the note again from the case

   The case editor lists the standalone notes linked to it, so a note that moved is still reachable from the case that produced it.

The note is encrypted on the case and encrypted in Notes. The move never writes readable text to storage.