Apple Notes: the ONLY notes app you NEED | tips for students and everyone else too

🚨🎥new vid alert! watch my video on newly updated apple notes features: https://youtu.be/_8GzBbcjj7A

People here need to realize that almost all Apple Apps are intended to be the most basic starter apps. They will never have all the features you want, that is what 3rd party apps are for. Apple apps are basic, easy to use for pretty much everyone and are free with your device. “Pro” users should look to 3rd party but expect to pay for those extra features. But for 98% of the population the Apple apps are more than good enough.

I manage my whole private and professional life in Apple Notes. Most would be puzzled if they saw which tasks and data management is possible with Apple notes and Apple reminders. You can manage your whole business with it believe it or not.

Finally, a youtuber giving practical techie advice for the average person like me, presented in an understandable yet informative way. Your videos are of very high quality, thank you!

I finally made the switch to Apple Notes after trying every other note taking app under the sun, especially for someone with ADHD. There are so few distractions that the entire screen is your note with only the few formatting options you need to structure notes. I've tried going back to something like Obsidian or Notion, but the sheer amount of customization of every aspect of your note-taking process, it made me realize that I spent more time working on structuring my notes than I did actually focusing on the content of my notes and found it to be incredibly distracting overall. With Apple Notes, you just dive right in and start writing.

Not being able to change the font, color, size quickly and easily using iPad or iPhone really sucks! When using Notes on an apple laptop (MacBook Air) you are able to click on FORMAT > FONT and you can change font size, color, etc. This needs to be implemented on the iPad. Plus the ability to save a note as a PDF and print it would be great, as of now trying to print a note really sucks

Brooke, I'd like to see a video from you about your folder design & structure. Over the years, I've come across only 4 approaches. (They are listed below.) I believe that most people, particularly beginners, seem to fall into the structure of their folders by evolution, rather than by design. That may be effective for the first 200 notes, but when the notes get up over a 1,000, I found that a pre-established design is helping in finding notes. Types of Folder Designs/Structures * Topics (Art, Equipment / Parts, Family, Food, Investing, Medical, Politics, etc.) * Life Roles (Son, spouse, father, businessman, teacher, chef. Etc.) * Tiago Forte’s PARA Method (Projects, Areas, Resources, Archive) * Days of the Week (Monday, Tuesday, etc.)

Brooke, I'd like to see a video from you about how you use tags. Because the search function of Apple Notes is so fast and effective, I don't use tags very much. But, when I do, I have narrowly defined how I use tags. I think of tags as “meta” data. That is, they are information “about” a Note and not part of the “content” of the Note itself. Here are examples: * Type of Note (Article, instructions, invoice, map, receipt, etc.) * Status (Planned, Active, Completed, etc.) * Format of Note (PDF, Excel, JPEG, etc.) * Locations (San Diego, Home, Farm, Ohio, etc.) * Sources (Email, boss, teacher, Internet, etc.) * Retentions (DeleteAfter2023Q2, DeleteAfter2023Q3, DeleteAfter2023312023, etc.)

WHEN WILL NOTES ADD DIFFERENT FONTS & COLOR

When I try to write in notes with my Apple Pencil, it only moves the page around. It won’t write. How do I solve that?

Hi. Which iPad should I go with? I can buy an iPad air 5 for $370 and 12.9” m1 iPad Pro for $620. (Both are used and I have a macbook air as well.) My main usage will be note taking, reading news, papers, articles, watching youtube videos and mostly for the educational purposes.

Can I record class/meetings??.. that’s the only reason I stay with Notability bc not only does it record, but it follows and jumps to what I was writing at any exact moment of a recording.

I have had a lot of trouble with Notes on my mac.. I use it to create checklists and it works fine for this.. but the search function does not show you the results, instead it highlights the word you wrote everywhere in the note and you have to scroll to find it yourself..It does not jump to it...Which in my case is over 1000 lines of text so its very annoying. Also its damn near impossible to select text with my mouse or edit it as Notes appears to treat text as some sort of an object and moves the whole sentence instead of selecting words or letters like a text editor would. Maybe im just dumb and im doing it wrong?

If I’m trying to retro-organize what I already have in notes .. is there a way to search and then group the results in some way? Thx

Can handwritten notes be converted to text? My current note taking app does that, but it has not added support for the new Apple Pencil Pro.

What’s the export of Apple Notes like?

Can you rotate your shapes?

After the iOS 17.1 update, if I scan doc and it’s a PDF, when I send it from Notes, people can’t open it. Also, when I’m in an email, (on my fully updated 2023 MacBook Pro), when I’m generating a gmail email and click attach, Notes is not an option. Highly frustrating. Hopefully they’ll fix this basic stuff

can attach image to note?

Apple notes has failed me, I made sure it’s sync to my iPad n cloud but my notes still disappeared 😭😭😭😭 n I have exam next week