Add notes and documentation

Sticky Notes allow you to annotate and comment on your workflows.

n8n recommends using Sticky Notes heavily, especially on template workflows¹, to help other users understand your workflow.

Create a Sticky Note

Sticky Notes are a core node. To add a new Sticky Note:

1. Open the nodes panel.
2. Search for note.
3. Click the Sticky Note node. n8n adds a new Sticky Note to the canvas.

Edit a Sticky Note

1. Double click the Sticky Note you want to edit.
2. Write your note. This guide explains how to format your text with Markdown. n8n uses markdown-it, which implements the CommonMark specification.
3. Click away from the note, or press Esc, to stop editing.

Change the color

To change the Sticky Note color:

1. Hover over the Sticky Note
2. Select Change color

1. Choose from seven preset colors, or click the rainbow gradient button to select a custom color

Custom colors

In addition to the seven preset colors, you can select any custom color for your sticky notes:

1. Click the button with the rainbow gradient and plus icon
2. Use the color picker to select your desired color, or enter a hex color code (for example, #FF5733)
3. Click Apply to set the color

Your recently used custom colors (up to 8) are automatically saved and displayed in the color picker for quick access.

Custom colors feature theme-aware borders that automatically adjust for optimal visibility in both light and dark modes.

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

to open the color selector.

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:

![Source example](https://<IMAGE-URL>/<IMAGE-NAME>.png#full-width)

Embed a YouTube video

To display a YouTube video in a note, use the @[youtube]() directive with the video's ID. For this to work, the video's creator must allow embedding.

For example:

@[youtube](ZCuL2e4zC_4)

To embed your own video, copy the above syntax, replacing ZCuL2e4zC_4 with your video ID. The YouTube video ID is the string that follows v= in the YouTube URL.