diff --git a/vns b/vns
index d67fe55..0c36446 100755
--- a/vns
+++ b/vns
@@ -112,14 +112,18 @@ vns_list () {
     # Prints a tree containing all notes in the notebook 
     # If no notebook is specified, the entire store is used
     
+    numNotes () { find . -name "*.gpg" \( ! -regex '.*/\..*' \) | wc -l; }
+    
     # Check for default behavior
       if [ -z "${*:1:1}" ]; then
           readonly NOTEBOOK=""
-          printf "%s\n" "Store"
-    else                       
+          if [ "$(numNotes)"  != "0" ];then
+            printf "%s\n" "Store"
+          fi
+      else                       
           readonly NOTEBOOK="$1"
           printf "%s\n" "$1"
-    fi
+      fi
     
     tree -C --noreport --prune "$VNS_STORE/$NOTEBOOK"\
     | tail -n +2\