How to make the most of Apple Notes

Apple Notes is 1 of those apps you tin move to connected a regular ground without ever really making afloat usage of each nan different features and functions it’s sewage to offer. That’s wherever this peculiar guideline comes in. The thought is to constituent you to immoderate of nan lesser known but very useful tricks that Apple Notes tin do. 

I’m going to attraction connected nan mobile app, but you’ll find astir of these tips use to nan desktop type of Apple Notes connected macOS arsenic well.

Link notes together

Maybe you’ve sewage 2 notes that are abstracted but besides related — 1 statement for readying a trip, for example, and different listing various sights you want to see. Apple Notes lets you nexus them some together. 

Open 1 of nan notes. At nan constituent you want to insert nan link:

Another measurement to insert a nexus is to type >> where you want to spot nan link. In that case, you’ll simply get a pop-up paper listing nan disposable notes.

Now, you tin pat connected nan statement nexus to quickly jump to it. To delete it, pat and clasp connected nan link, past take Remove Link.

Embed PDFs wrong notes

Notes tin incorporate PDFs, which tin beryllium publication and annotated if needed.

To adhd a PDF from different app (like Mail) to a note:

When you’ve sewage a PDF wrong a note:

You tin scribble connected apical of PDFs pinch nan pen instrumentality to annotate them and prime and item matter wrong a PDF successful nan aforesaid measurement arsenic normal statement text.

Show lines aliases grids

You tin bring immoderate bid to nan chaos of your scribbled (but not typed) notes by dropping lines aliases a grid connected apical of everything.

Change nan heading

By default, caller notes will commencement pinch a title successful a larger font astatine nan top, but that layout mightiness not beryllium thing you want to use. To alteration nan measurement that caller notes are formatted:

Create notes quickly

If you request to jot down thing arsenic accelerated arsenic possible, you tin quickly create caller notes from nan Control Center. 

Lock notes away

Your iPhone’s fastener surface should support notes good protected from prying eyes, but you tin adhd immoderate other information for notes that are peculiarly sensitive. (Note that immoderate notes — for example, those pinch video, audio, tags, PDF, aliases record attachments — can’t beryllium locked.)

Inside a note, pat nan 3 dots (top right), past Lock. By default, locked notes tin beryllium viewed utilizing nan aforesaid passcode aliases biometric authentication you usage to get into your iPhone. If you’d alternatively group a different password for Notes, pat Create Password erstwhile nan Lock Notes surface comes on.

Organize notes pinch tags

Folders are 1 measurement to shape your notes, but tags springiness you a batch much elasticity because each statement tin person aggregate tags. To tag a note, conscionable type a hashtag (#) symbol, followed by nan tag you’d for illustration to use.

On nan main Folders surface wrong Apple Notes, you’ll spot tags listed astatine nan bottom: pat connected immoderate tag to spot matching notes aliases All Tags to spot each statement pinch a tag attached. Notes lets you hunt for circumstantial tags aliases lucifer notes pinch aggregate tags.

Collaborate connected notes

Notes tin beryllium shared — conscionable make judge you prime nan statement pinch nan shopping database connected and not nan 1 wherever you’ve journaled your innermost thoughts.

To collaborate connected a statement you’ve sewage open:

Changes successful notes are tracked, truthful you tin spot which collaborator has made which changes. Tap nan collaborate fastener (which looks for illustration a personification and a positive sign) astatine nan apical of a statement to modify really overmuch search accusation is shown aliases to extremity sharing a note.

Build a table

Tables wrong notes tin be useful for keeping accusation organized. When you’ve sewage a statement successful edit mode, pat nan array fastener supra nan keyboard to driblet successful a table. (It looks for illustration a elemental grid.) If nan toolbar supra nan keyboard isn’t visible, pat nan + (plus) icon conscionable supra it.

When you’re wrong a table, you tin pat nan array fastener again to delete, share, aliases transcript nan array aliases person it to plain text.