11:05 - PDF annotations is really a killer feature when you're on a training and lecture material is delivered in this form. Thanks to this you can create best ever notes. Tested in my last 5 classes, everybody liked notes I created in this way. Cheers!

Only one thing missing to make it the best : Pinch to Zoom. Excellent video. Oh, and if you click on the color wheel in the Pen toolbar you can change from P3 to sR GB color profile.

Wow, continuing to watch what you’re doing with Apple Notes and getting more and more inspired to move away from OneNote after years of usage. Notes is much more eco-system friendly to be sure as I’m almost entirely in the “Apple orchard”.

Thanks for your review I was looking for a digital notepad to keep all my notes together and was considering Moleskin or ReMarkable yet this review showed clearly that that the regular notes within the iPad and iPhone suits this job just perfectly compared.

Another great vid Tom! I love how you present just the useful information and no irrelevant, time-wasting fluff like so many other You Tubers. Keep up the great work (and maybe zoom in on some of that tiny text sometimes) 😊

Thanks Tom! I got an Ipad from my kids for christmas and I ahven't really been using it as much as I wanted to, didn't occur to me to take notes on it but I love the idea of being able to search, definitely need to take a closer look now!

Bravo Tom! As usual you have cut to the chase - it is increasingly evident that many thought leaders are moving to Apple Notes. Apple is on a trajectory to make notes (and future Freeform) Stellar - As a long time EN power user - I recently made the move and find that my work flow has become frictionless - I had become a habitual hoarder with EN because of all the automation available. I now use read later or watch later apps for non-reference materials - as far as emails to notes I create a link for the email or a pdf - a more elegant solution. drag and drop is too cool- well done for your usual passionate and informative delivery 🎉

Solid tutorial. Learned a few new tricks from this one. Will forward it to my Apple bubble.

I use Notability for handwritten notes and Notion for typed notes. Although I don’t think I’ll abandon them for Apple Notes, I may start using Apple Notes to make quick notes in a pinch.

Thank you for this detailed video! Im trying to decide whether to buy the iPad or the Remarkable and this video helped clear a lot of questions for me.

I use Apple Notes for learning. So my trainer sends training videos and notes to me and I can have them all in one note for each lesson. Thanks for showing even more I can do with this

Very informative! Thanks for making this video!

Just saw your video! Awesome! I love apple notes thanks for making this!

What I miss with the Notes the most is the watch app. Bidirectional linking would be great too.

Fantastic video, great usage insights. Thank you

Amazing !! I am so happy to found this tutorial because everything works perfectly on my device !!!

Hi, you told a nice trick I didn't know yet. "A new note every day". thanks.

Under rated channel, Amazing work!! I'm convinced

Great Video. - Really comes to my mind, that this is now the ideal general Inbox tool to collect ALL Items that hit me since now it supports All formats … text, handwriting, photos of Handwriting and Text, websites, voice … the thing would be how to process this Inbox to the more permanant information stores that we all have - maybe siri shortcut processing is the way to go …

Really well done. Thank you.

I have most of the big note Apps but if I need to just take some notes, Apple Notes is my go to 100%. I don’t have time for “pretty” in a meeting or out on site to jot things down. I need quick. Notes is perfect. It’s pen and paper on the move. I can come back to them later when I have time, find everything, and do whatever I need with my scribbles and such. If you are studying for school/class and have hours , the others are prime. Thanks! Great tips and tricks.

Thank you for such a great video!

Guten tag! Thank you for this video, Tom. About 3 years ago, I switched from Apple Notes to Evernote for what I thought were better features at the time. Then, maybe 6 months ago, I saw a video from someone who suggested how powerful Apple Notes had become, so I've been considering a switch back to Apple Notes. While Evernote is a great app, I don't think its cost is worth it for me. This video, however, has pushed me over the edge and really convinced me that Apple Notes is far superior for my Apple connected lifestyle. Vielen Dank! Tschüss.

Many many many thanks to you for this great source of learnings

very good video

You should do a video on your thoughts on the new 16.2 Advanced Data Protection Feature

Thank you for this video

Great video. You master the App! Outstanding improvements are coming with new iOS. With the newly introduced changes in Apple Notes and Reminders, I do not see the need of using other Apps like Evernote. Integration among Mac, iPhone and iPad supposes a great advance for those of us that are in the Apple ecosystems.

Another great vid! I am a senior still in the workplace. Believe it or not I am just now moving from a Franklin Planner to the digital world. I almost bought a Remarklable2 but asked someone that uses one if he would buy it again. He said no, he would get an iPad. After looking at some of your videos its easy to see why.

Wow! A ton of really useful information... rapid fire! Great video!

🚀✨ Join us and build your Productivity System Today: paperlessmovement.com CHAPTERS for this video BELOW 👇 00:00 Intro 00:50 CREATING & FORMATTING NOTES 00:57 How to single tap access your notes 01:44 Sharing websites with Apple Notes 02:23 How to use Quick Notes in Apple Notes 03:02 Use Siri to create new Notes in Apple Notes 03:30 Create Note via Icon and Control Center 04:04 Create Checklists in Apple Notes 04:38 Gestures inside Apple Notes 04:51 Creating Tables in Apple Notes 05:15 Sharing KZfaq videos in Apple Notes 05:52 Watch full Apple Notes Course 06:01 HANDWRITTEN NOTE-TAKING IN APPLE NOTES 06:17 How to convert handwriting to text in Apple Notes 06:39 Translate handwritten text in Apple Notes 06:59 Drawing Shapes in Apple Notes 07:43 How to insert space in Apple Notes 07:54 Why Dark Mode is great in Apple Notes 08:17 DOCUMENT SCANNING & MEDIA FILES IN APPLE NOTES 08:27 How to Scan Handwritten Paper Notes into Apple Notes 09:12 How to search handwritten documents in Apple Notes 09:50 How to share documents from Apple Notes 10:01 Using Live Text on videos in Apple Notes 10:52 How to annotate scanned documents in Apple Notes 11:15 Adding sketches to your Macbook using an iPad 11:39 Adding photos to your Macbook using an iPhone 11:57 How to add Voice Memos to Apple Notes 12:27 Drag & Drop files into Apple Notes 12:45 NOTES ORGANIZATION, SEARCH & SHARE 12:48 How to create Hashtags in Apple Notes with Apple Pencil 13:35 Folder and Note organization in Apple Notes 15:31 View ALL Attachments added to Apple Notes 15:54 How to use Smart Folders in Apple Notes 18:16 How to only show notes with unticked Checklist items in Apple Notes 19:39 How to use Apple Notes as your Single Source of Truth 20:36 Using Spotlight to search your Apple Notes 20:49 How to use Apple Notes Widgets 21:42 Is Apple Notes really the best note-taking app 22:24 Find & Replace in Apple Notes 23:27 Final words about Apple Notes

Apple Notes has turned into a very decent note application. I was an early adopter of Evernote as a source for my "Second Brain" long before Tiago wrong his book on the subject but disliked Evernote's ability to see all my notes (needed for their search capability). Apple Notes could work great (and even has a fantastic Evernote import), but I have one issue others should be aware of. Getting your notes out. Yes, you can export any note as a pdf. But only 1 note at a time. There is no option I can find to do a bulk export so if you end up with 1000's of notes, it would be essentially impossible to ever get them out of Apple notes. I don't see any way to use Shortcuts. "Maybe" there is a way with Applescript on a mac but I'm not sure.

Coole Sache, Tom! Ich bin gerade dabei, Apple Notes intensiver zu nutzen. Ein wenig Fragezeichen habe ich noch bei der Ordnerstruktur. Viele Ordner machen Apple Notes aus meiner Sicht unübersichtlich. Die Ebenen sind optisch nicht so gut abgrenzbar. Deswegen überlege ich weniger Ordner zu nutzen und stattdessen die großartige Suche. Mal schauen, was am besten passt. Vielen Dank für das Video!

You are a PRO! You're my best. Thank you.

Great! ✨👏🏼

Tom is back! Great!

Great Video

Thank you sir. Great vid and I shared w some friends and Mom to hopefully get them to use Notes more, truly priceless

I agree

This is truly amazing. Goodbye Evernote and goodbye Asana. Thanks so much Tom!

Still using notability and goodnotes as my main note taking app..

Great video just got a iPad 12 pro there is no tool bar on the very top is this the norm

Impressive, I had no idea!

it is a nice video man

Love your content, would appreciate a true Apple Notes, vs GoodNotes vs notability video 2022/3 version. I am trying to decide between apple notes and good notes...would lean on your expertise.

I would like to know how to use charts with voice control. How do you move through the chart /spreadsheet formatting in apple notes iPhone? For example what voice command can you use in place of the “next” button to move between fields?

Professor Tom has certainly provided many useful videos. Being a senior citizen, and a IPad Pro owner, I always look for constructive ways to use my iPad effectively. I use GoodNotes as my main app for taking notes. Thank you Tom. Would you please share, maybe in a video, useful ways for seniors to use our iPads? Many of us are no longer students so using the iPad for taking class notes isn’t practical. I would be willing to help with providing ways I currently use my IPad. There just has to be more. Thank you.

I watched this again and originally missed that I can use smart folders to show unchecked lists. Very powerful. The only advantage that evernote has on this is the ability to have a master list of all unchecked tasks without having to goto the note. Apple could do better by integrating reminders as the check list and show all checklists in the Reminders app.

What do you think is the best system to study? I would like to use Apple notes, Freeform, pages and possibly notion. With which program do I do what best? (notes during lecture, summaries at home, studying).

very very nice video

I really like the app. My biggest issue with Apple Notes is it has no bi directional linking, and even creating links to notes for external applications is a very tedious process (such as linking a note to a task or project in your task manager). Craft, Evernote, and many other note taking apps does this well, I wish Apple Notes would bring this too.

Thanks!

nice man now i can watch free stuff thanks on my android

Most informative and interesting. As a casual but addicted user of Notes I do wish there was a way of “slowing down” such a presentation to allow me to more easily assimilate and appreciate each feature!! A much more mundane question if you will allow me:- I use my Apple pencil extensively but often, I’m sorry to say, as a stylus. Is there a way I can instantly switch back to the full screen keyboard while still holding the pencil or placing it back on it’s magnetic mount?

can you share a note to Calendar on apple where it links back to the note?

Tom - We have recently launched a major version of our app Noteshelf 3 with AI-assisted note-taking features that allow users to generate notes in handwriting and many more useful features.

What would be your suggestion for people that are not do not want to get stuck in the apple world?

Good notes is more fun but apple notes is very good too.

I currently use evernote and one of their best features to meis that they have a good tool for scanning and capturing things I think the app is called scannable, but apple notes seems like a much better tool for capturing information with all of the features you just mentioned. I think my favorite feature that you covered was the smart folders its definitely an amazing feature I will be trying in the near future.

If you copy an image like a jpeg into Apple Notes, can you write over it, add arrows, underline and so on?

Holy crap, so many features explained so fast my brain is sore. I started using Apple Notes about 3 years ago. I was looking for a basic checklist task manager for marketing plans. Every year the program gets better for free. Your video just blew me away. I realize I Porsche in my hand but was driving it like a farm tractor. Great video!

~ where can I find quick notes? Thanks!

How to use page break in apple notes ipad

Hey chief. Can we add an image. Write handwritten text on it. And then search on the text?

There is one drawback of scanning documents. The OCR is not saved inside the PDF so when you export or share the document, it is no longer searchable. I keep using Scanner Pro because of this.

Thanks

I mostly use Obsidian for my note-taking, but I may consider this app for my temporary notes (that's a good idea, btw). The main issue I have, at the moment, is that I only have an iPad, in terms of Apple devices!

UpNote is the best note taking app in 2022!!!

Only thing missing is a simple way to back up all your notes in case you need to. Using it in spite of that. Thanks.

Ik kijk graag naar je KZfaq filmpjes ik vind ze heel interessant. Alleen kan je meer tijd nemen voor de uitleg. Het lijkt wel of je met de trein mee moet.

Das Deutsch kam überraschend 😂 Habe gerade auf Apple Notes geswitcht und bin mega happy einige Apps weniger benutzen zu müssen

I have large notes and always or almost always I open a note it start's on top. I have large notes and is annoying always to scroll down at the end of the notes. It's possible to change it?

I envy the users whose mother tongue is among the languages that can use Scribble in Apple Notes + other apps on iPad. I’ve got the Apple Pencil and that would help me taking down the minutes of various meetings I go to - if the language I use wasn’t Danish. It’s taking Apple forever to support Scribble in written languages with many accents - such as Polish and the Nordic languages. Why is that? I realise that the programming was simpler for Graffiti on Palm devices - but it certainly was a far speedier affair - it didn’t take years before someone had written a hack for Palm OS that enabled users to write accented characters! Thanks for reading my rant! 😂 I don’t suppose anyone has heard of a way to write in Danish or Swedish or Norwegian - or Polish, for that matter - using Scribble?

try the Samsung tablet next

Taking notes is capturing ideas. Ideas sometimes arrive at unexpected places. This is why capturing via dictation on the Apple Watch is essential for a note taking app. Drafts and Bear have had an Apple Watch dictation feature for years. Apple notes is falling behind and they own the hardware design.

The features you explained make Apples notes a great App. Now just before a give my feedback, I am a Apple supporter, since 2004. I now have many Apple products, I'm well entrenched into the Apple ecosystem. Apple Notes is the most unstable Apple App I have ever experienced. I have lost notes, refresh can be very slow, handwritten notes overlay themselves to other hand written notes, no ability to zoom in or out, slide in notes have a different hand written size when viewed full screen. I'm glad you mentioned you only use Apple note as a quick note taker, you then transfer notes to a different App. This is the only way I would advise anyone to use Apple notes. I also use Notability and Nebo. I'm writing this on Nebo in a side in window, similar to Apple Notes. Any issue, that are few and far between, are dealt with quickly, when reported to Notability & Nebo, not so with Apple Notes. Giving feedback is difficult and you'd be very lucky if you got a response, I never have. If I did not know better I would say Apple notes is not written by Apple! Its instability is very unlike Apple.

We got even more great features for Apple Notes on iOS 16. The best I like: • Ink Pen in Handwritten Notes • You can choose to straighten handwritten text (doesn’t always work perfectly) • Everything’s organised by date by default • Some features from Markup such as text boxes and shapes come to handwritten notes • Apple Notes support custom fonts, text size, colour and formatting (Bold, Italic, Underline & Strikethrough) • PNG images on the app no longer have the grey background that plagued the app for a long time • Collaboration via Messages or FaceTime. • You can now use your iPad’s passcode for note locking

It's great until it stops synching for some reason. Somehow my laptop is not updating my phone-based Notes.

After installing iPadOS 16.1 I noticed that the graphite pencil setting in Apple Notes has been replaced with a pen! How do we get the graphite pencil back?

Best. Just one problem: Apple lock-in.

Export to PDF option is broken in apple notes app.

As much as I want to like and use Apple Notes primarily (especially due to integration, it would make sense), I can't get away from Good Notes for one reason - and that is PDF annotation. In that regard sadly Apple Notes has no upper hand, as it cannot import PDF forms to anotate them, whereas GoodNotes does it with ease - there I can keep my entire e-office with all my documents. Though, I do wish Apple Notes would get better in that regard and include that option as well.

Apple Notes is very nice but major issue with it is scaling.. It streches the page to the width of the app. If you take notes in landscape mode, it shrinks in portrait mode vs. Also as there is no Windows software, you have to use iCloud web. But on iCloud web the note is processed as picture and the longer the note is, the smaller it is on web, which is really unfortunate.. That's why I use OneNote.. It is a little slow wrt Apple Notes but has no problem with all the aspects I mentioned here..

I liked it, until I updated it to iPadOS 16. Now I can’t even use it for more than 30 minutes without my tablet burning up :\ This never happened before prior and even after I close the app and use other apps it starts to cool off. I was wondering if somebody can tell me if my issue is with the new update or tablet

No webclipper!

My biggest problem is just the amount of stuff I keep in Evernote. If there was an importer function I would switch.

My friend, thank you for helping. This video is amazing and you do an incredible job explaining in details. It has helped me a lot. I send you a shower of blessings.

I love apple note but I can’t understand why can’t we search for a folder in the search It’s annoying!!!

Why does my handwritten text turn to type? I hate that. How do I change that

Except, if you use a windows computer alongside an Apple phone and tablet. The iCloud Notes has a fraction of the functionality and you cannot even paste images via the web which makes it pretty much useless for so many use cases.

trying handwritten hashtags for me is a hit-or-miss experience - sometimes it works, most of the it doesn't

The only reason for me to not use it, is because I want the ability to wright in Dutch, but it sucks at translating/transcribing it! Just not working :(

It is clear that for some functions and features of Apple Notes, Apple favors its own application, while harming third-party applications. This doesn't seem like fair game to me.

There is no palm recognition in notes app. I find it nonsense to use with the pencil

Of course there’s support in German and Arabic, but none for Hebrew.

I can't switch to Notes because there's NO undo button... sometimes I make a wrong line in a doodle or accidentally change a text and it's incredible that I can't undo!

It's fine right up until you need to download pdf files out of apple notes to archive them. One at a time. No batch downloads. No drag and drop. If there is a solution to this, I can't find it. Eventually when you all need to free up space and you go to archive, you will run into this. It is a huge drawback and if I had known about this, I would never have started using it.

I don't think so. The best for me is OneNote. I wish Notes will be because i use Apple, but is far behind. Apple put profit before Steve hart.

As far as i can see, you cannot import PDF files into Apple Notes. To comment and highlight work of others.

Pro Tip: Use GoodNotes instead :)