iPad Tips for Seniors: How I Use Apple Notes 

This video is just what I’ve been looking for, but couldn’t seem to find. An easy to follow, more than basic, tutorial on notes. So many content creators seem to be geared towards younger folks, with fast moving dialogue. As an aside, we’ve lost the “owners manual” for our hardware and software and created a space for these kinds of badly needed resources. Our devices are wonderful, but costly, and we don’t even get much in the way of instruction from the manufacturer. I recently downloaded the iPad owners manual on  books, and found it to be a notable exception to my previous complaint. Quite extensive, exhaustingly so, it is a great resource to have. Thanks ,as always, Rich.

Thank you I'm not a senior, but have not been a tech person. Now after starting a business apple products have been purchased. Operating this product with your assistance has been great!

Thank you for sharing your experience!

I didn’t know about the tags. Thank you for a clear, concise tutorial. ❤

Great advice, Thank you.

Oh my gosh, I’m going to have to watch your videos repeatedly until I can really grasp it! I’m amazed at the information you’re providing in such an easy to follow and understand way. I’m so anxious to get started on improving techy self with your help😃🤩. Please keep your tips coming! I liked the comment by someone requesting using iPhone with CarPlay! That would be very useful I think🙃

Hi Rich, Thank you for the video and always bringing us new information on how to do new applications. I use quick notes a lot. I’m impressed that you downloaded your appliance manuals in to “Notes”. Kindness, Teresa 8:40P

Very well done video 💪🙏 I am a "notes expert" and you even helped me learn something ❤

Thanks Rich. Very clear and well structured

very helpful. thanks

Thanks Rich One again you taught me something new. I will be using tags going forward. I will be tagging notes that I refer to most often.

Great video! I decided to use Apple notes more because of your video.

Greetings from England. Thank you for this excellent video, which has given me some new techniques and ideas🤗

Thank you! Everything was explained very well. Just what I was looking for.

Rich, thank you. I think I am quite good with technology, but I still get a lot out of your videos. You make them very easy to follow and your suggestions are good for people of all ages.

What is quick notes?

You are really good ! You always teach me something that I hadn’t quite figured out despite years of using these apps

Thanks very much for this video. I am just moving into Apple Notes and the information in the video was very helpful. In another video I saw that you can use Siri to create notes. I may give that a try in addition to the note creation methods that you mentioned.

That Apple mug looks cool!

Good informative video - Thank you.

Really glad I found your channel 👍🏻

Your video is masterpiece …in simple ,essentials ,or basic to the point without any clutter…like well filtered drinking orange juice…pulp removed ..only 0ne cup…in Hand

Thanks!

So glad I found your channel…great video.

Can you please show how to add folders. Thank you for sharing! 👍👍

I just started watching your channel, maybe 2 days ago. Yes, I subscribed after watching the 1st. One. (Which I VERY seldom do), I’m 80 yrs. Older than wiser, I guess. Anyway, I’ve lived here, in Japan, for 50 of them. Your video about ‘Notes’ impressed me enough to add a note to you. I’m smarter now, after I watched your video. It gave me some better ways to do things than I had before. Mostly, I’m self taught on Apple products. I bought the first “Fat-Mac”, Macintosh computer when it became available here. At that time NO support at all. I used it to make teaching materials for kids just learning English. I retired about 10 years ago due to deteriorating health problems related to my army service in Vietnam. “Nuf, said”. I like your style, it seems to have almost NO “hype” involved. I’ll continue to watch your vids. as long as they seem ‘truthful’ to me. So far, I like what I see. Feel free to use any or all of this “comment” that you want. I’m not looking for recognition, advertising, or anything more than ‘friendly’ association. It’s not even necessary to reply, but I hope you at least read it, before deleting. Anyway, thanks for the “knowhow”, anyhow. I’m a ‘funny foreigner’ living in a far away place. Thanks, Gary🧸

I love your organization on AppleNotes. I going to rearrange . Confessional: 😔 I have over 1200 notes but I do have a folder for my EMS / A&P. I have it super organized there. I have recipes, diary rants, reminders, Bob&Brad YT videos. I never thought to place manuals there in notes. I make PDFs and they are in Apple Books.

Chapter markers please. Thank you for the great video 😊

Hi. Rich. Would you please do a video sometime that shows how to improve Ipad's spellchecker? On my ipad 9 I'm tempted to turn the spell check feature completely. I've watched other another video on how improve the feature but found it quite confusing. Your videos tend to be easier to understand. Thank you.

Wow, thanks for the info and channel - Very Helpful! I’ve been trying to create a link to a specific Apple Note to put in another Apple Note, have you had any luck linking between notes?

Excellent video as usual, thank you. I'm a very experienced user, but I still find useful tips in your videos. There is another way to open Quick Notes in Safari; swipe up from the bottom right of the iPad and it will open a new Quick Note. I thought that using Tags was a great idea, but my iPad 9th gen doesn't seem to have them in the folder list, nor does my iPhone 13 Max Pro.

Great informative video- you got a new subscriber. 👍

The PARA system is an excellent organizing method, That being said, be extremely careful with dragging and dropping. I lost my entire AREAS folder (that had dozens of sub folders) and somehow a lot of the information repopulated in my RESOURCES folder (which was no where near my Areas Folder) and I lost a lot of information, that was permanently deleted. I am now having to rebuild the entire system. Even the Apple tech could not find the main folder.

I just locked my NOTE file where I keep my passwords and phone numbers. That is a VERY IMPORTANT TIP for everyone to use. Many people do use NOTES for that and it is a MUST; I used my fingerprint.

I really like your videos. Just curious if you would know why Notes and Calendar apps on iPhone don’t sync with my iPad.

Very good tutorial videos. I recently got an I-pad Air, 5th generation. Is it a good idea to install a screen protector and do you have any suggestions for the brand that you would recommend .

Hi Rich, this was very good; I use NOTES a lot; anything else you can think of about how to use NOTES please give it to us. I would like NOTES to have more formatting options and if you find an app to do that let us loyal friends know. I use it like a word prosser option and write articles and working on a book. 12:25 Roger of Orlando

Great video, thx. Can you please show/describe the Quick Note app/icon you use? I looked in the App Store and there are several. Thank you.

Hi Rich, excellent video! How do you decide what goes into Resources and Areas? I assume Resources is manuals and similar type documents but not sure what type of information would go into Areas rather than everything going into Resources. For Archives, I assume that is where completed Projects are kept - correct?

Thank you so much, this help me a lot, i have a question, how can I edit a photo when I already put it in a note, because sometimes I take a photo in the app of notes and it’s a large photo so I want to cut it I can’t :( hope you can help me, thank you so much

I have iPad of 6th generation. What type of pencil should I purchase? There are different kinds of pencils available in the market. Which one will compatible?

Is there a way to keep you on while going to other apps to try the things you are talking about? Thanks so much

Wouldn’t you put Call Carol into reminders?

What is a share sheet?

Can you also use the Apple File Folder to search for things in Apple Notes?

I HAVE A TAB FOR “TRAVEL” AND TO REDUCE THE NUMBER I TRIED TO DO A SUBFILE OF “TRIPS” SUCH AS “TRIP KEY WEST” BUT IT WOULD NOT ALLOW ME TO HAVE A SUBFILE OF “TRIPS”; OR AM I DOING SOMETHING WRONG? I HAVE ABOUT 22 TRIPS AND WANTED THEM ALL UNDER TRIPS; SO UNDER TRAVEL I HAVE LOTS OF FILES I WOULD RATHER REDUCE IN NUMBER; ROGER OF ORLANDO

I need more detail. I can't figure out how to make a quick note. Then I found the Apple Manual and you've got it backwards. Left swipe, not right, is the default, apparently. So I made some quick notes. Great! Except now I can't find them. They are, apparently, in the Quick Notes folder. But where is the Quick Notes folder? I don't know. Even Google doesn't know -- all I get is the Apple Support link where it's supposed to say something about that, but it doesn't. However I heaer you an you can pull up a list of folders. How? I don't know, the Apple support page doesn't say anything about that either. I appreciate your attempt to give an understandable review, but if you don't give every step, it's not going to work, for me, anyhow.

This is too advanced for me! I don’t know what the terms mean, nor how to get the quick notes icon to appear when swiping down up from the corner

hey, can you please tell how to change the colour of white pages into something different or black in apple notes?

I used to keep all my passwords in notes. I should organize them into a folder. Is there a way attach a name and password to the folder, so someone else can’t get in?

How old can I get a para template with sub folders so I can start setting up my Apple notes?

I watch you on a smart tv. The problem is I can’t look below to make a comment or do you see a link that you might put there because the TV doesn’t let me look below I can only do that on my iPad or iPhone if I’m on the TV is there somewhere that I can look below to see your comments or to see your links. Thank you.

Just cleaned up my notes and added a PDF owner's manual for my granddaughter's christmas present, a kids smart watch as a new note. So wonderfully helpful to have things better organized for future easy access. That paper manual is not very helpful over time. Thanks again Rich!

Enjoy your videos but am at a loss as to how you reorder your PARA file to the way you have it. Mine just sticks to alphabetical. AAPR. I must be missing something. Please help.

You can’t put more than one on a quick note on the iPhone

what's the price this device? why are you not write here ?

Your talking points, do you use NOTES or what?

Wish I could see what you're tapping on, that would be helpful for a newbie. You keep saying "tap on that" but don't show what your tapping on and my Ipad doesn't look like yours so it's not helpful.

I just learned that tags will not work for notes that are identified as “locked”, even though the “locked notes” are open. Disappointing.

Can you get to the point a bit quicker please?

Thanks!