Agreed!

I totally agree, I think its simplicity is perfect for most users.

I totally agree, and I think Apple Notes is the perfect simple-to-use notes app without sacrificing functionality. Thank you for the sub!

Awesome, glad you found this helpful!

You're welcome!

Glad it was helpful!

Thank you, glad you enjoyed it!

You're welcome!

Glad you liked it!

Glad it was helpful!

Thank you! I’d love that 😂

Glad it was helpful!

Thanks for your feedback.

You can zoom on the video

Pinch and zoom in to magnify your screen?

That's a nice suggestion. Notes has come a long way but that doesn't mean there aren't more improvements that could be made.

I’m still on iPhone 5 and have very few of these features!

Glad it was helpful!

Awesome, glad you found it useful!

Glad you found it helpful!

The closest you can get to web clipping is either: 1) using the link function to add the whole website to your note, or 2) highlighting part of the website you want to reference, right-click and add to quick note, then drag that clipping into the main note you're writing.

You can drag PDFs from your Files app into your Notes.

You're welcome! 🇵🇱

No problem, I’m glad you found it helpful. What features did you learn that you didn’t know about before?

Thank you!

Glad it was helpful!

Thank you, glad you found it useful! 🇳🇱

Thank you, I'm glad you found it useful!

I agree 🤝🏼

Thank you, I appreciate it. Do you use Notes on your iPhone or MacBook? I may be able to help with your 'Title' issue.

I use iphone 13 ProMax and MacBook Pro@@ShivsStudio

On your MacBook, go to your Notes app and click on 'Notes' in the top left corner, select 'Settings' and make sure that the 'New notes start with:' setting is selected as 'Title'. That should solve your issue.

Thanks, but this is already in the description.

Glad it was helpful!

Glad you found it useful.

Thank you!

If you're on MacBook, can go to File > Print, or press Command + P.

This is very straightforward! Have you logged in to the same iCloud account across your devices?

You're welcome!

I don't believe there is a way to back up your notes other than iCloud, but you can manually share your notes via email or export them as a PDF if you want to have a copy.

Thank you!

Thank you!

Thank you, I'm glad you found it useful! What do you use your contacts app for, and what images do you need to add in the notes section for your contacts? I never use it as you can access your contacts from the Phone app instead!

@@ShivsStudio the phone app IS the Contacts app. It’s the same database, but written slightly differently to interface with iOS and macOS, respectively, but the appearance and the fields are identical. I use the Contacts app like I imagine most everyone else, to keep track of my contacts, both business and personal. I would like to be able to make more detailed notes in the notes section that refer to the particular contact which may include let’s say a photograph of their house, or add a link to a photo on the Photos app for some other kind of reference that I cannot come up with at the moment. I do know that there have been many times where I feel hampered by the inability to embellish information on the contact and lament its limitations. The other problem with the Notes area is that it tends to time out while you’re typing something and you find you having typed a couple of characters or even a couple of words too many that have gone into outer space because the time out just threw you off of the Notes area. It is a contrast that the Notes app has been constantly though gradually improved over time while the Contacts app has been left unchanged since it was introduced. It’s as if all those people that wrote the app, up and left and went to some other project within Apple!

I didn't realise there were so many issues with the app! I'll be honest, I don't add too many details into my contacts list - just name and phone number, so I wasn't aware of these problems.

Hopefully Apple updates these in the next update!

You’re welcome!

Glad you found the video helpful! That's a question I've had a lot, and unfortunately the answer is no 🙁 The only way to transfer notes would be to copy and paste them which is not ideal at all. If you do really want to move to Apple Notes, the only thing I can recommend is to start using Notes as soon as possible and just copy over your most important notes from OneNote - you've got to start somewhere!

Which toolbar?

What an interesting use case 😂🕵️‍♂️

Good idea!

I’m glad you found it helpful. Unfortunately it doesn’t have the capability you refer to - you’d have to manually add the checklist item.

Whereabouts?

Of course, just hold and drag an image you want to move to another place in your note.

Smart Folders technically don’t contain notes; they contain references to notes in other folders. Smart Folders also can’t be locked, turned into subfolders or shared, although they can reference shared notes. I hope that helps!

That's a good point, and I find Notability and Goodnotes to be far superior when it comes to making notes with an Apple Pencil.

Thank you! Stay tuned 😉

People really underestimate the app, so I'm glad you found this helpful. Unlocking a note requires FaceID so there's no way you can forget your password 😄

I’ve not tried this, but can you drag a numbers file into your note?

Fantastical!

You need to be logged in to the same iCloud account across all your devices for your Apple Notes app to sync across them.

@@ShivsStudiothank you very much …😊

You can’t, this would require some form of multitasking.

I appreciate your feedback. To address these issues, you can try slowing down the playback speed by going to Settings > Playback speed, and try watching the video in theatre mode (t) or full screen (f).

Yes, if you lock a note on your phone, it will lock on your other devices too.

Notes takes the first line of your note as the title of the note.

When I add a tag in a note, the note itself gets added to the Smart Folder. In the same way, if you have a Smart Folder called 'Suggestions', and applied a selected tag called '#suggestions', then all of your students notes that have '#suggestions' in them should come up in that Smart Folder. Is that not the case?

@@ShivsStudio I tried but if I create a Smart Folder called Suggestions, and then I have different other folder, with various names, in which the notes have the tag #Suggestions; then what goes in the smart folder are not the single notes but the folder that contains them. At least this is how it works on my computer.

I don’t think being a non English native speaker impacts your ability to watch the video without stopping. I am U S citizen and always need to pause these instructional videos as I find the author seems to speak too fast. Just an fyi.

They're called webcam cover slides and they're great for privacy.

That's a really great point, maybe Apple should look to add 'version control' like Notion does so that if you do mess up or need to go back to a previous version, you have that option. Thank you for your valuable input!

I also use UpNote, and it's one of the best apps for writing notes!

@@FoodMyDreamsTips awesome - does it have an iPhone and Mac app? I might need to try this...

​@@ShivsStudio I think it has the support of all platforms and all popular mobile devices. I'm using it on iPhone, Android, iMac, and iPad, and I am super happy with it. It's also not perfect and has some lost opportunities. But it's the app of the category when you buy Premium not because the Free Version does not have all needed functionality, but because you are so happy to work with it, that you think that you need to buy it because projects like this should grow and make more people happiness. I think you can make your own review and decide for yourself what is the best app for you, and even maybe create a new KZfaq video, that will help other people. I think it will be a very interesting video. Something like: "It Could Be The Perfect Note App, but only if ...". 😎

Thank you for the suggestion!

How many columns have you added to your table?

@@ShivsStudio 3

@@Thefootynutritionist 3 columns stays within my 14 Pro Max's width - maybe it depends on which phone you're using. What do you use?

@@ShivsStudio 12 pro. I thought the video said you can set the column to stay within the width of the device. Maybe I misunderstood

@@Thefootynutritionist ah, unfortunately you can't specifically set the columns to stay within your phone's width, they just do it automatically if your table doesn't have too many columns.

You can't go back to the originating note unless you include a link back to it.

What's this in relation to 🤔

That’s odd! Were you in the process of backing up/moving your information to a new device? Or did they just randomly start deleting?

It was random, no new device nor was I organizing notes on any device. What was really strange is that it kept happening over a few days until all my folders were gone.

That’s quite unlucky, never heard of that happening before. Does OneNote fulfil all your requirements?

Yes, it is quite good on Mac and Windows@@ShivsStudio

Nice, I'll check it out! How's the iPhone app?

On the iPhone or MacBook?

Thank you. They're called webcam cover slides and they're great for privacy.

Isn't Evernote a paid service now? It may be time to start writing new notes in Apple Notes!

@@ShivsStudio but is it possible to transfer my notes from Evernotes (which is a paid software ) to Notes?

Maybe if you can copy your Evernote tags into the actual body of the notes you want to transfer to Apple Notes, that may be a solution and avoid you having to start using Apple Notes afresh. Let me know if that works?

Yes unfortunately Notes separates the area where you type and write with the Pencil. Hopefully they update this in the next iPadOS.

The rows and columns of Apple Notes's tables should automatically adjust to fit content. There is no control to explicitly set a width or height, apart from adding whitespace to increase text length.

Thank you!

I'm note sure, you may need to download the latest iOS software to get some of these features.

Try checking your iCloud settings?

What's that?

@@ShivsStudio BoardNotes is a handwritten note taking app designed specifically for iPads

Oh nice! Do you use it often?

There's a few ways to clip from the web, you can highlight text and add a quick note, share a webpage to notes, or add your current webpage inside the note itself.

@@ShivsStudio That's rather weak compared to the Evernote's web clipper. We can save the whole webpage for offline viewing with that feature :(

Sure, above your scanned PDF you will notice a Title with a downwards arrow to its right. If you click on that, it reveals a menu with a 'Share' option. Once you click this, you'll be able to share your PDF via email. Hope that helps!

@@ShivsStudio. Thanks, It worked, I appreciate it.

Are you using the Notes app for handwritten notes? Apple Notes is best for typing notes, while for handwritten notes there are better apps such as Goodnotes and Notability.

That is one drawback, although I guess the 'Markup' feature is the closest solution Apple provides. Do you find yourself having to write over typed text a lot?

@@ShivsStudio not very often, but I do from time to time want to scribble over some text or highlight text that I’ve typed. For that reason I use Goodnotes 6 instead of

Goodnotes is great for writing notes with your Apple Pencil, but I find it less useful when making typed notes. Notability is a great alternative too - have you used that?

@@ShivsStudio I’ve tried notability but always find myself returning to Goodnotes. Just a preference I guess

For sure, and I think their features have converged a bit over the years too.

Yes - you can write with the pen farthest from the ruler, which has an "A" on it. Your handwriting will convert automatically to text as you write.

@@ShivsStudio how to edit doc file in iPad with Apple Pencil.regarding this plz make a video

I’m not sure if you can edit doc files but you can write on PDFs using the Markup function.

I don't think it's possible to delete an Apple stock app from your MacBook. Have you tried searching for it? Try pressing Command + Spacebar together to bring up the Spotlight Search, and search for 'Notes'.

You can already do the first one, no?

Unfortunately not, only scanned documents can be turned into PDFs.

Thanks for your feedback, I've made this adjustment in my more recent videos.

Thank you

When you're on a website, you can click on the share icon at the bottom of your screen and select the Notes app or 'Add to Quick Notes', both of which will let you save your website in the Notes app.

@@ShivsStudio thank you for reply I want to tag the screenshot of the web page so I can save in seperate categories. Is it possible in notes ?

Yes - check out the Smart Folders section at 01:02 of the video which talks about how to set up Smart Folders and use tags to automatically file your notes.

Link to other notes still works on desktop, how are you trying to add a link? I agree with your comments on Notion, Apple Notes seems to be a lot easier to navigate.

Thanks for the feedback.

Apple Notes supports Markup, just click the pen icon and start writing on your PDFs.

@@ShivsStudio ​ Apple Notes doesn't have Markdown. Markdown and Markup - it's not the same. Markdown move notes to the next level.

Do you mean inside your Notes app, or to your Files?

Apple Notes is great for typed notes, but there are better apps for handwritten notes such as Goodnotes and Notability.

@@ShivsStudio yeah I use Goodnotes for handwritten and Notes for typed

PDF Expert for hand written notes is excellent and everything is pdf, you can save anywhere in your file system and there are also internal and external links.

Thanks for your feedback. I’ve corrected a few of these points in my more recent videos.

You can drag notes into folders. When you’re in the folder, press the … button in the top right corner > Sort By > Date Created.

Thank you for the feedback.

Agreed, and the way they're optimised to work on your devices makes them even more useful!

What about iCloud backup?

Thanks for your reply. I use notes on iMac. If my Mac developed a problem and it lost all my stuff, all my stuff would be saved on Time Machine all except my notes as they are synced with it. If I delete a note on my iPad or vice-versa, within seconds it's gone from my iMac and on iCloud. The kicker is, Time Machine doesn't save Notes and would be lost but my other stuff would be saved.

I understand now, it’s quite surprising Notes aren’t backed up with the Time Machine.

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Unfortunately not, you can sort the notes within the folders but not the folders themselves. You can however manually move folders by pressing Edit and then using the three lines to the right of the folders to move them around.

You can! Just add a hashtag to the notes and documents you want to save together and Apple Notes will create a Smart Folder for you.

@@ShivsStudio I mean Excel Word, Pages Numbers PowerPoint etc documents. Like reports, presentations etc. You can’t have a project consisting only of notes I think.

That's a good point, although with iOS 17 and macOS Sonoma, Apple has introduced a feature where if you are typing something on Apple Notes and start to find it too restrictive, you can actually finish writing your note in Pages. That way you can start in Notes and save it as a Pages doc with all your other documents.

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That's a good point that another viewer also mentioned. I think it would be a great feature if Apple added version control so that you could go back to previous versions of your notes in case you accidentally delete something.

@@ShivsStudio just give us the ability to make it read only so we can’t accidentally delete anything off it while browsing

Sorry, I don’t get your point, an accidental deletion goes to the recently deleted folder and can be recovered for up to 30 days.

@@eugenemccafferty2255 not an entire entry deletion but a few accidentally deleted words or lines. Since it can’t be converted to read only, while browsing a specific note and erroneously deleting a word or words.

I think the best option you have is to swipe away the keyboard so you don't accidentally delete anything.