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### Templates

Having to add facets to every new mental note — and configure them — would be quite time consuming and repetitive. Mental Case allows you to save the attributes of a mental note as a template, which can be used as the basis of new notes, or applied to existing notes to make batch changes.

For example, if you need to make a lot of notes with three facets, with the background color of the third facet colored green, you could make the first note, save a template, and create the rest of the notes using that template. New notes will be begin with three facets, and have a green background color on the last facet.

A template does not store note content like images and text; it stores structural aspects like font, text alignment, slide background color, and facet role. When you create a new note from a template, the note is created with the same number of facets, and the same facet configurations, as the note that was originally used to save the template.

You can make batch changes to existing notes by selecting the notes, and applying a template. The template will be applied to any facets that already exist in the note. If the note has more facets than the template, or the template has more than the note, the excess facets are simply ignored.

Each stack of notes can have a default template that will be used when adding new notes. For example, you would probably have a different template for a stack of reversible foreign language notes than you would for a stack of simple sticky-like notes, or question and answer notes.

#### See also

Mental Note Topics
Saving Templates
Applying Templates to Notes