Apple Notes - Become a Power User in 2022! 

I agree with you…Apple needs to integrate notes, reminder and calendar TOGETHER!!! I never understood why they have not already done this

There are many RU-vid channels devoted to the iPhone and iPad but I can honestly say that when it comes to explaining how to use a particular Apple App.Yours is by far the best. Your clear diction, explanation and careful guidance is far ahead of the others. As a “Senior” and a lover of the capabilities of the iPad, you as been an immense help in my learning and User experience. Many thanks indeed.

Tom, I can't imagine how many hours it took you to put this together. The presentation is so smooth - no fumbling for words (I assume you must script it out?). You undoubtedly spent hours researching the functionality of the app itself, then put together all the appropriate screen shots, etc. The result is a very professional-looking, thorough, and informative tutorial. If I might offer one small suggestion, it would be to add some kind of emphasis (red circle, arrow, etc) showing the button or icon you refer to when navigating. Very well done, sir!

"I'd love to see Apple integrate Notes, Calendar and Reminders together in a future iOS." YES!!! If they did this, I would be able to end my search for an app that I like that does this!! Couldn't agree more!!

Two things in particular that will serve me well. • assigning Face ID to locked notes • folders within folders. I have a pet sitting folder with many documents. I was able to create a sub folder for the client info notes, a folder for the forms about my business, and contracts that I send to them, and a packing checklist folder. Thanks again.

I’m glad somebody with a high profile has mentioned that Apple should have a more comprehensive version of this facility. I really think there should be an option to toggle between an “all-in-one” app, like having Numbers, Pages, Notes, Reminders and anything else useful bundled in a synced “Office 365”- type program, and the option to keep them separate.

Great video! I’m constantly using the Note app. It’s my immediate go-to. I love the way I can copy web links into a table which is nested into a folder.

This was terrific. I really appreciate you added chapters here. Thank you for all the time/effort you put into these videos. I learned so much from your tutorial. Very easy to follow & understand. Notes is very, very good and sure there are things that can be improved on but when used correctly nobody should complain too much about the application. IMO, the most difficult task or one I trip up on the most is creating a subfolder within a previously existing folder.

Really useful-I knew most things but picked up a few tricks. One small correction that I only recently realized myself - you don’t actually have to tap just on the flat part of the Apple Pencil to get it to switch uses. For a long time I thought this was the case which I found irritating because I had to make sure my grip was touching the flat part and just the right way, but if you double tap it anywhere it will still do this function.

Tom, your tutorials have been an absolute game-changer for me! Your straightforward and comprehensive approach to explaining Apple app features has made learning a breeze. Thanks to you, I've mastered so much and feel more confident using these apps. Keep up the amazing work!❤

The clearest and best Apple tutorials anywhere on You Tube. Great job!

Your descriptions are so succinct and helpful. I regularly turn to you to figure out how to use features on my Mac, iPads, and iPhone. Thank you !

I love Apple maps and use it all the time and I thought I was pretty good at using all functions but this video has given me a few more tips and info. This video explains information clearly and simply which i love. Keep posting.

I have tried other note apps and I just love Apple notes it is perfect with my phone and ipad. I prefer it over anything.

Excellent, thank you!

Excellent details.so helpful. I have been using Notes for many many many years this time only I was able to make use of it as designed. Thank you.

I have recently got a iPad and I tend to use the iPad notes a lot to save some crochet patterns and some good baking recipes

Thank you! I’ve been using Notes for several years. Picked up some useful tips from you!

I found your instruction style to be the most compatible with my learning. Good job.

All your videos are SO HELPFUL! Thanks so much 😀

Thank you great info learned a ton

Thanks for your valuable content

I love your videos, so informative. I have stopped using paid for apps and started using Notes and Reminders. Thank you!

Appreciate your efforts taken sir

Wonderful tutorial!! Thx sooo much for sharing!👍🏾💯

Thanks, very helpful. There's a lot of power in a lot of the Apple provided apps that many of us never realize.

Thanks for the well explained video.

Very helpful! I’m not a power user but there are a lot of things here that I will start using. Thank you!

I love your voice! So soothing and calming This video is full of valuable information, thank you!

Thank you

Very clearly explained. Good job!

Great video. Thank you

So glad I watched your video because I really was unsure of how powerful Apple Notes were and then I did a search on dictation and apple help had a short 30 second video on dictation into notes this is a powerful dictation note taking app. I will have to see if thousands of folders will break it but I am game. Appreciate the sharing and folder organization of your video. Thanks again.

Thanks🎉

Thanks for a very informative and easy to follow guide on Notes for iPads…..very helpful 👍😊

I hope they add bidirectional linking. Great video.

Great job. Cheers!

Great sound track !

you've done another useful and practical video. thank you!

Very comprehensive 👍

good video thanks

Nice job, thanks! I'd like to suggest using an eye-catching indicator to highlight your cursor movement/position. It will help keep up with your audio stream..

REALLY GOOD AND VERY USEFUL , NOT BEATING THE BUSH AROUND

thank you so much, everything I needed to know, I found in your video :)

Excellent video!!!!

Excellent

Excellent! 👍🏻

Great tutorial!

Thanks!

Good clip on notes! I’m still learning more about them. Some I discover on my own. Very useful app.

Brilliant detailed instructions/ lot of work went into. This!!!! Thank you 🙏

excellent tutorial, question, how do you increase the size of the font? would also love to see a segment on how to fully use the pencil with notes. thanks again. George

Thank You. ✨👍🏻✨

Great video, I like love the notes app!!!

Thanks

Awesome!!!

thanks so much...

VERY GOOD VIDEO. So Clear and Concise full of very vital information for the beginner on a very basic level essential for understanding the basics of this APP. Thank you for your tutorial.

Seriously, you are one of the best here on RU-vid! thank you for the incredible amount of time and effort you take in putting these tutorials together. Quick question about the notes app. Is it possible to link a heading or subheading to a specific part of the note further down the page so that it jumps down to that section when you click on the heading?

I am an old dog that hates learning new tricks. But you have given me a great incentive to work on the NOTE. TQVM.

Thanks, Greta Job!

Thank you about a notes easy for me

This guy should definitely have a million subscribers. Amazing

Thank you for taking the time to make a note and pencil tutorial for dummies (like me). So many of the other tutorials assume the user has some knowledge.

I got a lot out of this. But, I was looking for information relative to using the Apple Pencil for handwriting, and how the app converts it to text, and also drawing diagrams, pointer arrows, etc in my notes. I didn’t see you cover any of that.😊

Love this video. One additional thing I learned. You can only add hashtag after a period in the note. Otherwise, Notes thinks the hashtag is just part of the note.

I am new to Apple. I have watched a few of your videos...This is excelent work....short, informative and educational, pertinent and clear language....I subscribed you are THAT GOOD❗️

Nice video. Thanks. Can I merge multiple notes into one?

I just bought that IKEA desk lamp that you have! 😀

Thank you so much?! This was so helpful I am a collage student who i got an apple iPad and notes is app for notes😅 so thanks!!!

bloody hell mate that was an awesome video

A very handy video

Even though it's a bit limited compared to other apps like GoodNotes or Notability, I'm still using Apple Notes for work because it's free. One thing I wish I could do is add notes on top of images like when I'm discussing something with a client and want to visually call his attention. OneNote could be an alternative but it's not supported within my company. Besides Apple Notes, are there any other free apps you recommend for iPad? Awesome in depth video about Apple Notes. Awesome and fluid way to present everything. Thanks for sharing! Subscribed 😄

Maybe I missed it but I think you didn't mention how you can have 2 notes app windows side by side. It comes in handy when organizing notes or moving stuff from one note to another, you can just drag it across.

i wish notes allowed drawing over text on iPad ;(

Good video and nicely explained. Recommendation, could you highlight what your doing on screen in addition to describing where it is and what sour doing.

Thanks for a great tutorial. The photo-scanning feature w/b much more useful if I could crop within the Notes app before committing. Instead, I have to take the photo with the camera, crop in photos app, and then import it into Notes. Apple should fix this.

Wow help at last. I am 79 and you talk fasts but not toooo fast. Learned a bunch in two of you videos. Thanks

Very well organized and presented. Thanks for your effort and care. I have a question in regards to Notes and Time Machine. There is no way that I can find to retrieve an individual note from a Time Machine Backup. One can only get the total Notes package. This a serious drawback and seems to me to obviate the use of Notes as a serious application. Recently I deleted some information out of a note. I could not go back and retrieve the earlier version of that individual note. Can you help with resolution of this issue? Thanks very much

I have been playing with notes apps for the past week and have pretty much decided that this is the best all around option. That said, I would feel much better if there were an option to pass export all notes to a backup folder. It could be a plain text or a JSON folder. I would feel better knowing that my data needn't be locked up in a proprietary app forever.

Can you integrate these notes into OneNote or Notion?

Great info about how to use notes. Can you cover info of how to retrieve accidentally deleted notes in your next presentation? Would appreciate it very much.

Impressive content and delivery. I’ll start to go over your back catalogue of videos. I have a question on Notes: are you aware of aware of a way to add additional Fonts to the limited choice available on the “Scribble” function?

Brilliant. I am now fully convinced to use Apple notes. If I am on handwriting (not scribble pen) and I do a whole paragraph of handwriting. How do I convert that to typed text?

Thank you so much for creating this video. I always read books but then I thought of starting with an iPad for my studies considering the weight of the books I've to carry all around. It's been a week and I was cursing, why on earth did I buy this because I wasn't able to use it. Thank you very much for helping me out. As a student please make such more videos and help me use the iPad effectively. Thank you again. I've a query. While making notes, can I change the colour of the font/highlight the typed words?. (I'm not asking for handwritten words, that we can do, I learnt that.) Thank you

While limited, Shortcuts adds some features that can be handy. You can use it to create and open notes with standard titles and/or content, perhaps in a diary or journal folder. I've also created and used a shortcut that records audio, converts it to text, then appends it to a previously specified note. It date time stamps the entry, and can also add the note's location. I was using it to record quick bits of info while out and about, so I could enter then in a permanent record later. There are probably a lot of applications for this kind of log note. I just wish Apple would give us more Shortcut actions to play with in Notes.

Good video. Is there a way to change font colors in Notes??

I’m debating on whether or not to use either hashtags or folders

Great

Can you make a video on the file transferring notes to Windows computer?

I agree with Bryan and other, your content and approach are better then most if not the best. As I watched this vid once again you mentioned there is no way to set a reminder from a note or about a note, well the little bell in my head went off and I think you need to update with a new Notes/Reminders vid. I ran across away to set reminders from a note and also a very useful photos hack using notes. As for the Notes/Reminders Open the note you want to set up a reminders about and highlight the title or the first few words or anything in the note and you will get a pop up (cut,copy,paste, and share), click share and pick Reminders and then sets date/time and whatever you like. Works Great. From reminders it will label the reminder with your text you copied or the Title if the note has a Title and will also give you a link to open the Original note. As for the Note/Photos hack If you have photos that are let say for your eyes only, select the photos and send them to the Notes app. Once in the notes app you can lock them or not, but the cool thing is you can now delete them from your Camera Roll so others don’t see them there and they are still in your Notes app for your viewing pleasure, locked or not. One other thing I noticed if you have several Notes locked and unlock one it unlocks them all till you lock them back. Not sure why they did it this way, but I guess it saves you having to come up with multiple passwords for all the notes you want to lock. I’m sure this is just the tip of what all we can do to link all the Apple apps into one working unit. Thanks

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hello, you're usually quite good at answering questions so here's one: when I close and then reopen a note in the desktop app, my text color is lighter than it was originally set to.....black text becomes grey and red text becomes light red etc. if I change it back....then close the note and reopen it.....same thing....its back to grey etc.

Many times in these tutorials the speaker speaks so quickly, that it is worthless to me. This tempo is reasonable and easy to take a small step back to rehear. THIS IS MY FAVORITE!!!

Very good video. I agree with all the improvements and suggestions as you go along. Eg tables and numbers, lists and tasks integration with reminders and more. Currently we use Evernote for a small group. Would love to be able to jump wholly to Apple Notes, but its not quite there yet, maybe that will always be the case , its the age old problem of sacrificing some tools. 🤗🕸

Can you break up handwritten notes within a folder by pages? or will it just be an endless scroll?

Excellent tutorial. Many thanks. I noticed on your desk that you have Bluetooth peripherals for your desktop. Please consider a wired keyboard and mouse. EMRs are not safe (Google Scholar, a good source for papers).

What if compared to notes on Samsung Galaxy Notes? Which one is better?

Hello What videos do you have to create lists , on iPad like creating a video I guess like a power point . Love your content, very clear and easy to understand.

Hi, great video - THX 🙏 Have a question, on all my iPads and iPhones I am able to open RU-vid any note saved from RU-vid. But on my newest iPad pro its going directly to Safari. Any idea how I can setup again to be able saved notes from RU-vid. I did check al the settings and they look identical on all devices but for some reason iPad pro not working as I would like to... thx