#11509·Trilium

Clone Note to this Note

Author: itsjakobxCreated Sep 15, 2026Updated Sep 16, 2026

Describe feature

Assume you have a note about Cars, and want to collect all Car Models through your notes in this note by having them as child notes. This currently has massive friction (see interaction complexity)

Scenario

You are building out a master "Cars" dashboard note. Across your entire notebook, you have scattered notes for specific models like Ford Mustang, Tesla Model S, and Porsche 911. You want to pull all of them underneath your "Cars" note as child clones without losing your context.

Interaction Complexity

  1. search up the car model
  2. then go to the note
  3. then clone it
  4. go back
  5. Paste: You click on the "Cars" note and press Ctrl + V to paste it as a child clone.
  6. It would be much more powerful to clone to this note as a child

Do this 5 times, meaning 35 actions for 5 cars.

Solution Complexity

Imagine you are already sitting comfortably inside your "Cars" note:

  1. You do a search for Tesla Model S
  2. Then it arrives, you can just select it, it gets cloned as a child

Do this 5 times for 5 cars -> 10 actions for 5 cars.

Summary

In summary it would be the equivalent of Clone notes to but in the inverse direction.

Image

its currently ctrl+shift+c (it seems the documentation for it is missing, but quite a valuable feature in inverse)

Additional Information

It would be optimal for the user to stay focused at this note, as cloning to this note implies not switching to the child note then, but instead it implies that you will clone many many notes below this note.

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