To access your notes, click the Tomboy icon () on the GNOME panel, then select one of the notes you recently viewed or created from the menu, or Search for older notes (see Section 11.2, “Searching All Notes” for more information). The Table of Contents lists all your notes in the order they were last modified.

To force a note to always appear in the panel menu regardless of when you last accessed it, click the thumbtack icon to the right of the note to “pin” it to the menu. Notes that are pinned to the panel menu have a thumbtack icon that look like this: . Notes that are not pinned to the panel menu have thumbtack icons that look like this: .