# Aliases

Aliases let the same note appear in several places in the document; most changes made to the alias are automatically applied to the original note as well, and changes to the original will appear in the alias.

Agents create and hold aliases of notes that match the agent’s criteria. You can also create aliases manually.

To make an alias of a note:

- Select the note.
- Choose Make Alias from the Edit menu.

Aliases look like other notes, but the name of an alias is drawn in italics. Because some languages do not use italic typefaces, you can also request that the names of aliases be underlined using a checkbox in the General pane of Document Settings.

### Aliases and The Original Note

The attribute values of an alias are almost always identical to the values of the original note. For example, the $Color of an alias is the color of the original. If you make the original note red, the alias will be red; if you make the alias green, the original note will also be green.

If the original note is deleted, all its aliases are also deleted. Deleting an alias, on the other hand, has no effect on the original note.