# Extract a selection to a new note

**URL:** <https://community.bear.app/t/extract-a-selection-to-a-new-note/14088>\
**Category:** Feature Request\
**Created:** [October 30, 2024, 4:17pm UTC](https://community.bear.app/t/extract-a-selection-to-a-new-note/14088 "2024-10-30T16:17:25Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![JonathanB](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/user_avatar/community.bear.app/jonathanb/32/5589_2.png) [@JonathanB](https://community.bear.app/u/JonathanB)\
**Post date:** [October 30, 2024, 4:17pm UTC](https://community.bear.app/t/extract-a-selection-to-a-new-note/14088/1 "2024-10-30T16:17:25Z")

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_Applogies if this is already a feature that I can’t find or has already been requested but I couldn’t see anything similar in a quick search!_

If you highlight a section of a note, I’d like to be able to extract that selection into a new note leaving a link to that new note in the original note.

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**Author:** ![krssno](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/user_avatar/community.bear.app/krssno/32/1338_2.png) [@krssno](https://community.bear.app/u/krssno)\
**Post date:** [October 30, 2024, 5:06pm UTC](https://community.bear.app/t/extract-a-selection-to-a-new-note/14088/2 "2024-10-30T17:06:18Z")

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The context menu of the selection has a command “Note from selection” to achieve that

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**Author:** ![JonathanB](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/user_avatar/community.bear.app/jonathanb/32/5589_2.png) [@JonathanB](https://community.bear.app/u/JonathanB)\
**Post date:** [October 30, 2024, 5:18pm UTC](https://community.bear.app/t/extract-a-selection-to-a-new-note/14088/3 "2024-10-30T17:18:12Z")

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Thankyou! I see it does on the Mac (so I’ll use that) but not on the iPhone.

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**Author:** ![krssno](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/user_avatar/community.bear.app/krssno/32/1338_2.png) [@krssno](https://community.bear.app/u/krssno)\
**Post date:** [October 31, 2024, 10:13am UTC](https://community.bear.app/t/extract-a-selection-to-a-new-note/14088/4 "2024-10-31T10:13:42Z")

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Actually I use iPhone - if at all - just for reading notes or to quickly jot something. I took a look and wasn‘t able to find it in iPhone‘s bear app