Notebook is a new note taking tool from Mendeley Reference Manager. Notebook allows you to highlight PDFs attached to your references, keep your notes from multiple PDFs in the same place, and retains links back to the source PDF.

You can highlight passages and attach notes to any .pdf attached to a Mendeley reference. 

Highlighting

1. Select a reference with a .pdf attachment, and select the attachment.  The Notebook screen should open.
2. In the upper left of the screen, select the arrow icon.  In the document, select and highlight the passages you want to highlight.
3. Once you've finished highlighting the passage, you should see an option to highlight that passage.  Select that option and the passage will be highlighted.
4. You can change the color of the highlight by selecting the highlighted passage and then selecting a new color using the menu in the upper left of the screen.

Inserting Notes

1. Select the note tool (the word bubble) in the upper left of the Notebook screen.
2. Place your cursor at the point where you want to insert a note and select.  A note window should open up, allowing you to type in a note.

You can create individual Notebook pages to collect highlights and notes from several attachments.  This is really useful to help organize passages from across several sources.

1. Create a Notebook page by selecting the Notebook button in the upper left.  The Notebook menu will open on the right of the screen.  Create a page by selecting the New Page heading at the bottom of the menu.
2. Add a title for your page, and you can type your own notes into the body of the page.
3. To add highlights, select the .pdf you want, and then select the highlighted text by clicking on it.  You will see a dialogue box that offers 'Change color', or 'Add to Notebook' or 'Delete Annotation'. Click on Add to Notebook, and you will see the highlighted text copied to your Notebook (boxed and italicised).