# Tables, checklists and a copy button in Second Brain

> Second Brain notes now keep their tables and checklists, the editor gains a formatting bar, and every Alfred answer can be copied in one tap.

Source: https://www.alfredscholar.com/changelog/second-brain-tables-and-copy/
Published: 2026-10-11

Second Brain is where your research thinking accumulates, so it should hold the shapes that thinking takes: a table of action items, a checklist for next week, a prompt you mean to reuse. This release makes those work properly.

## Tables and checklists stay intact

Notes with tables now display as tables, and they stay tables when you edit and save. Checklists keep their ticks. If a note's table looked like rows of vertical bars, open it again: it now reads as a table, and saving it once tidies it for good.

## A formatting bar in the editor

The note editor has a quiet row of tools above it: headings, bold, italic, bulleted and numbered lists, checklists, quotes, links and tables. Inside a table you can add or remove rows and columns from the same bar.

If you prefer to type, markdown works as you go. Start a line with `##` for a heading, `-` for a list, `[ ]` for a checklist item or `>` for a quote.

## Copy any answer

Every finished answer from Alfred now has a small Copy button beneath it, in Ask Alfred and in the Alfred panel on every page. Code and drafted text, such as a prompt or an email Alfred writes for you, sit in their own block with a copy button of their own.

## Titles read as you wrote them

Note and folder names with characters like `&`, `<` or `>` now save and display exactly as typed. A name that already shows odd characters is corrected the next time you rename it.