7 Tricks To Hack Apple Notes

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Apple Notes has been on the comeback for years. After being objectively one of the most useless apps on the iPad, it’s turned into a genuine tool.

Here are 7 tricks to make the most of Apple Notes:

🤝 Sharing

To share a note, tap the share button (square with an arrow pointing up)

Choose where you want to share the note or who you want to share it with.

You also have the option to edit the share settings if you want.

If there’s an orange dot to the left of the title of a note, someone has changed the note since the last time you looked at it. Open the note and swipe right to view editing history.

🤏 Collapsible Sections

This is Notion-esque. And I love it.

Click “Aa” to open formatting options. Click something big (like Title or Heading).

Once it is in your notes, you will see a chevron symbol when you hover over the text. Click this to toggle visibility of individual sections.

📄 PDFs

Apple Notes has been big on PDFs lately.

Now, you can view full-width PDFs and document scans. This is 10x better for interacting with your documents.

Annotating documents is as easy as liking this post.

📁 Folders

I love organization. Especially folders.

Thank god Apple Notes has folders now. Users can create up to 5 levels of sub-folders. That is better than 90% of note-taking apps out there.

To create a sub-folder, tap the more button inside an existing folder and tap add folder.

🔖 Tags

Use tags to organize your notes by typing or writing #TagName.

This is great for keeping related notes together. You can search for notes that contain a specific tag (or a combination of multiple tags).

🔗 Link Notes

One more organization thing.

Link your notes together by typing “>>” to reference another note.

This is great for 1-to-1 note relationships. For greater needs, tags or folders are probably better.

💨 Quick Notes

Quick Notes is my favorite feature.

To open a Quick note, swipe diagonally from the bottom right corner (↘️).

Like other notes, Quick Notes can be typed or handwritten.

To view them, go to the Notes app and tap on the “Quick Notes” folder.

Final Thoughts

Apple Nows is beautifully simple yet powerful for the average user. There are so many other features I couldn’t cover today. Be sure to check out the app sometime this week.

Thanks for reading!

Adi

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