New notes are created within the context of the note you are currently looking at within your editor and the vault that note is stored in: - https://wiki.dendron.so/notes/98JMUIQUEKfU83f0MgMbF/ By default, it will try to intelligently decide which vault the note belongs in. If you want to always be prompted with new notes, you can configure

vaultSelectionModeOnCreate

to be

alwaysPrompt

instead of

smart

. - https://wiki.dendron.so/notes/F9LWJEjscrGkxnYi2JNby/#vaultselectionmodeoncreate