Use the toolbar button highlighted below to show or hide the panel which contains new note stacks. Here you can capture description of new Rules, Scenarios etc. and then drag the notes to the right.

Once the notes have been dragged to the right they become part of the Feature file and are persisted when you press the Save button.

Always show new Story notes
By default new notes stack for User Stories gets hidden once you have dragged over at least one user story note to the right. It can however be made always visible via the editor option menu highlighted below.

This can be useful when you need to split the current user story into further separate stories. You can temporarily capture the newly split story onto another User Story note card in the current Feature before creating a new Jira issue and moving it there under its own Feature panel.

Slide out from the right

The new notes panel can be configured to slide out from the right rather than from the left using the menu option highlighted below

Place the mouse cursor at the bottom of any note so that the note’s drag handle becomes visible. Then click and hold the left mouse button to “grab” the note. Move it with the mouse to the desired location and then release the mouse button to drop the note.

The locations where a particular note can be dropped is colour highlighted when the note is dragged over it. The note will be auto aligned after dropping so you don’t need to be precise with positioning. Where exactly each type of note can be dropped is explained in the following sections.

Dropping User Story Notes

User Story notes are top level elements and can be dropped onto an empty space or next to other User Story notes dropped earlier.

More than one User Story note

At times you might discover another User Story not previously known as part of your team’s Example Mapping discussions. When this happens it is useful to be able to capture it quickly under the same feature so that it doesn’t get lost and then later after the meeting move it out into its own Jira issue and Feature panel.

Dropping Rule Notes

Rule notes can be dropped onto a User Story note that doesn’t yet have any Rule notes

Or next to other Rule notes dropped earlier

Or onto a User Story note that is currently folded (see Fold Note Groups)

Dropping Scenario Notes

Scenario notes can be dropped onto a Rule note that doesn’t yet have any Scenario notes

Or next to other Scenario notes dropped earlier

Or onto a Rule note that is currently folded

Story scenarios
Cucumber syntax supports having Scenarios without a preceding Rule, so you can also drop a Scenario note directly onto a Story note

See below for difference between a Scenario that belongs to a User Story vs a Scenario that belongs to a Rule

Dropping Question Notes

Semantically questions can belong to User Stories, Rules or Scenarios, so you can drop them accordingly

You can also drop a Question note onto Story, Rule or Scenario note that is currently folded

Dropping Step Notes

Unhide Step notes

Step notes are hidden by default, but they can be made visible by unchecking the editor menu option shown below

Step notes can be dropped onto folded Scenario notes or next to other Scenario steps or question notes like shown below

Steps & questions mixed

Step and question notes that belong to a Scenario can be arranged in any order like shown in example below