--- title: Attachments | Relic Help description: An item can carry files as well as text. How to add them in the editor, how much they may weigh, how to take one off, and what the row shows. canonical: https://relic.space/help/attachments source: https://relic.space/llms.txt --- Keep and organise # Attachments An item can carry files as well as text. How to add them in the editor, how much they may weigh, how to take one off, and what the row shows. Updated 10 September 2026 · Every platform ## [What an attachment is](#what-they-are) An item in Relic is usually one thing: some text, a picture, a file. A note can also carry files alongside its text. Those files are its attachments. This is how you keep a thing and its paperwork together. The note says what the job was, and the invoice, the photo of the receipt and the signed PDF ride along with it. All of it is encrypted the same way and syncs the same way. You can add and remove attachments on a note, on a computer. A picture or a file item shows its attachments but does not let you change them, and neither does a phone. ## [Adding files](#add-files) Open the note ([double-click its row](https://relic.space/help/edit-an-item)), scroll to **ATTACHMENTS**, and press **Add files**. Pick as many as you like. The button reads _Adding…_while your computer's file picker is open. Files you have just picked sit on a warm gold background, so you can tell at a glance what has not been saved yet. Next to the button a running total counts what the item weighs against the limit for one item, like _1.2 MB / 25.0 MB_. Anything that would push you over is left behind, and a line under the button says how many and what the limit was, like _2 files skipped, over the 25.0 MB limit_. Nothing is truncated and nothing is uploaded half-finished. Either a file fits or it is not added. The limit for one item comes from your plan and from [Settings › Capture › Max item size](https://relic.space/help/settings-capture#max-size), whichever is lower. The total counts the files already on the item plus the ones you have just picked. The [composer](https://relic.space/help/compose) has the same section, so you can write a note and attach files to it in one go. On a computer you can also drop files onto the Relic window to save them. ## [Taking a file off](#remove-a-file) Press the **×**at the end of a file's row. The name goes grey and gets a line through it, and the × becomes an undo arrow. Nothing has happened yet. Press the arrow to change your mind, or press **Save** to make it stick. A file you added in this sitting has not been saved yet, so its × removes it outright. The running total drops as soon as you do, which is the quick way to get back under the limit. ## [What the row shows](#on-the-row) A row with attachments carries a paperclip and a count on its small second line, after the device and the time. One attachment shows that file's own icon instead of the paperclip. Two rows in the Relic window. The first is a note called Maplewood Studio setup, and its second line reads Windows PC, 4d, then a paperclip with the number 3, then a work tag. The second row is a plain note with no paperclip. The paperclip and the count on the meta line say the item carries files. Open the item and each attachment is a row of its own with its name and size. Pictures show a thumbnail. Two buttons sit at the end of each row: one opens the file in whatever app your computer uses for that type, the other saves a copy to your save folder. A file that has not reached this device yet says _Loading…_ where its size goes, and the buttons appear once it lands. ## [When a change does not stick](#when-they-stay) Saving an item writes its title, note and tags first, and its attachments second. If the second part cannot go through, the first part is still saved and the toast tells you the files were left as they were rather than pretending it worked. * Attachments kept as they were: over the size limit. The files you added would push the item past the limit for one item. Take one off and try again. * Attachments kept as they were: connect to the internet and try again. Changing attachments means rebuilding the bundle they live in, and a file that has not been downloaded to this device yet has to be fetched first. * Attachments kept as they were. This kind of item does not take attachments. When it does go through you just get the usual _Saved_, and the new set of files goes out to your other devices with the next sync. Related [Edit an itemKeep and organise](https://relic.space/help/edit-an-item)[The VaultKeep and organise](https://relic.space/help/the-vault)[Write a new item by handCapture](https://relic.space/help/compose)[Settings: Vault and storageSettings reference](https://relic.space/help/settings-vault-and-storage)