Clinical Note Editor
Learn how to use the Clinical Note Editor and its features for writing your notes
The Clinical Note editor is packed with many useful tools to help make writing your clinical notes easier.
Layout
When writing a clinical note from a template, you will be taken to the Clinical Note Editor. This page is split into 2 sides:
Your Template on the left to complete (the Editor)
A preview of your output notes on the right (the Preview Panel)
You will be able to see the name of the Template you are using at the top of the page.
Drafts
You can see when your Clinical Note was last saved in the top right corner of the page:

Auto-saved notes are available to continue editing in your Drafts section for 48 hours before they are permanently deleted.
Saved drafts are stored for up to 14 days before they are permanently deleted
Auto-save
Clinical Notes are auto-saved every few seconds to ensure you do not loose notes due to a loss of internet connection. You do not need to manually keep saving your note.
Save a draft
To save a draft of a clinical note to complete later, click on the 'Save as Draft' button.

Here you will be able to add an identifier to the note so you can what appointment it was for.
Ensure not to include any patient identifiable information in the identified!
Editor Tool Bar
The tool bar in the editor contains features to help you complete your clinical note.

This includes:
Bold
To make text bold
Insert Snippets
Easily add in Snippets
Symbols
Quickly insert symbols to your notes
Emoji
Speech to Text
Undo and Redo changes
On the far right side of the tool bar is the Undo and Redo buttons.

These will undo and redo actions or input to your clinical note. You can also use the following Hot Keys:
Crtl (or ⌘) + Zto undoCtrl (or ⌘) + Shift + Zto redo
Adding Snippets
To quickly add in a Snippet to your clinical note, select the 'Snippet' option in the tool bar. Learn more about Snippets here

Snippets can also be added in using the Shortcut command
Actions toolbar

On the right side of the screen you will find the Actions toolbar. This contains some additional features for your clinical note, including:
Actions menu
Help menu
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Actions menu
To access this menu, click on the 3 dots in the Actions Toolbar

This is where you can:
Open and close the preview panel
Enable Prettify mode
Remove emojis from your output notes
Quickly edit your Template
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