Questions tagged [notes.app]
An application provided with the original iPhone, and made available on the Mac in Mac OS 10.8 Mountain Lion. Used to record text notes, and can be synced using iCloud or other services.
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How to force OS X Notes application to lose formatting when I paste text from clipboard?
While I do find Notes.app very useful, especially due to the iCloud integration with iOS counterpart apps, I am very annoyed about the text formatting used by the application.
I just want to be able ...
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Disable spellcheck and autocorrect in Notes forever
I've googled plenty of guides about disabling spelling and grammar in mac's Notes, and while unchecking the items in the edit menu works fine for the note I'm currently on, it turns back on for each ...
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Link to a note in Apple Notes, from another note
In Apple Notes on the Mac, is it possible to reference a note from within another note (by way of hyperlink)?
So, for example, if I had two notes:
Thoughts about pastries
Pastries are great. Truly ...
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Where do my notes written in the Notes application on my Mac get saved?
I'm using the Notes app that comes with my Mac, but I can't find where the notes are getting saved in the Finder.
Where can I find these files?
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How to export/backup Notes in macOS in one go
I have a lot of Notes on my machine which I don't want to loose. It's not logical to export them one by one. I don’t have space for iCloud to sync them and wish for a different tool even if I had ...
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Notes has Google Notes. But Google has no such service. Where are they stored?
If you go to System Preferences -> Internet Accounts and add a Google account, you can see Google has Notes. If you open Notes (OS X app), it somehow retrieves the notes I had put long long time ago ...
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Code markup in Apple Notes app
I am currently running macOS Sierra (10.12.6) and was wondering if there is an easy way to format code (like there is for Title, Heading, etc.) in Apple's Notes app?
I'm open to any workarounds to ...
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Is it possible to add a horizontal line to apple notes on a mac?
On MacOS I see ways to enter checklists and tables but no way to enter a horizontal line. Is this possible to do?
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Change width of a column in a table in Notes.app on a Mac
I discovered the nifty table feature (rows and columns) available in Notes.app on macOS Mojave.
How does one stretch or narrow the width of a column?
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Notes 4.0 (El Capitan) strikethrough option removed
Does anyone know how to apply a strikethrough to text in the new Notes app? It seems the option has been removed entirely from all font menus, contextual menus and even the font palette!
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How do I hyperlink 'text' within a note in the macOS Notes app?
If you copy and paste a link from Safari into the Notes app, it is pasted as text that is also hyperlinked. However, I haven't been able to find a way to do this in the Notes app directly.
I've ...
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How can I make a keyboard shortcut to strikethrough text in the Notes app?
Since Apple decided to give us shortcuts for all the text options except strikethrough, how can we do this with one keyboard stroke?
I saw some other solutions, but I want my Cmd+Shift+x shortcut back!...
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How to tune Notes on OS X to use plain text or not to reformat quotes?
As technical guy, I do hate the markup support in Notes.app and I would prefer to be just a smart text one.
Here is my wishlist:
Use a different font, like a fixed width one
Drop any font/color/...
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How do I resize an image in Notes?
I can't resize an image by dragging and dropping in Notes.
How do I resize an image in Notes?
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Create local backup of notes in Notes.app on macOS
I'm using a company-issued MacBook where we cannot use iCloud to backup notes. But I would like to have a way to create backups of the notes, since they are not included in the company backup software....
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Possible to access/restore past versions of Notes in iCloud?
If I mistakenly delete or otherwise mess up a Note that is stored in iCloud, is there a way to restore a past version of the Note?
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Notes.app - how to access history?
Since notes.app seems to accrue a "rolling history" of data and doesn't automatically save out versions of your files to disk in any reasonable way (date stamped, etc), I was wondering if anyone knows ...
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Mac app for writing handwritten notes
I would like to prepare hand-written notes (via One by Wacom tablet) for my educational purposes, therefore I would like to have a software which has
ability to create infinite long (or big enough) ...
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Notes app search is not finding some notes
I am using my notes app on OSX 10.11.5 and iOS 8. For the most part, things are working, but I am noticing that many of my older notes are not searchable. When I type something in the search box, ...
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Importing Notes from one mac to another?
I was making extensive use of Notes on a loaner laptop for work. I just got my permanent machine, and after updating from the backed up data on CrashPlan, I found my notes didn't make it over. I ...
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Recover Notes from TimeMachine
I have deleted an information in a note I need to recover. The note is purely local (not synched in the cloud or on any other device).
I'm using Mac OS X El Capitan V10.11.3 and the Apple app "Notes" ...
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Attaching images into Notes for iCloud Web
I use Apple's Notes app on my Mac, iPhone and iPad. At times, I need to log into Notes for iCloud via a Web browser (using another Mac, PC or Linux box) using the web application to access my notes ...
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Can I interact with Apple Notes app from the command line?
I use the current Notes app on my iOS devices. It syncs nicely to my desktop. However there I prefer to work on text files usually in the command line.
Particularly I am looking for a way to export ...
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The "New Note" option is disabled in the Notes app in macOS 12. How do I fix this?
Sometimes when I try to create a note on my MacBook Pro (Intel, 16-inch, 2019) running macOS 12.1 Monterey, the "New Note" option is disabled in both the menu bar and the application toolbar....
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Export from Notes.app to Markdown format?
Using notes is handy as you can have it in multiple devices and makes transition almost effortless. I'm willing to move some of these to Markdown so I can share the content and add formatting to it.
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How to change the default font and size in Notes on El Capitan?
Editing DefaultFonts.plist doesn't seem working anymore on the pre-release build 15A279b of El Capitan:
sudo vim /Applications/Notes.app/Contents/Resources/en.lproj/DefaultFonts.plist
It still shows ...
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Sync Google Keep to Apple Notes
I have an Android phone with a lot of notes in Google Keep. Is there an easy way to sync all my notes to my Mac so I can add, delete, and modify notes on both devices? (I've seen some paid apps, but I'...
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How to Change Hyperlink Color in macOS Notes
The hyperlinks in Notes on macOS are essentially yellow on white, as shown in the screenshot below.
I would like to change the color to any darker color to improve the contrast, but how? I have tried ...
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Move iPhone notes to iCloud
I have OS X 10.8, and there is an empty list of notes on my Mac. But I have some notes on my iPhone, which are not in iCloud. Instead, they are local notes in the "On My iPhone" folder. How to move ...
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How to transfer/copy Notes from one iDevice to another without using restore method?
I tried using iCloud account. But it did not seem to work. basically, I signed into iCloud on both iDevices with same Apple ID. And making sure Notes was set to on. Newly created notes will show ...
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How can I change default font Notes - Sierra, High Sierra
In the actual Notes application there are menu choices for changing the font of a note. However, this doesn't change the default font for new notes. There is also no Preference.../Settings... where ...
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How to stop note to stop auto convert double qoute to inverted comma?
This is the text I want to keep in a note:
gcloud compute --project "wordpress-test" instance-groups unmanaged create "instance-group-wordpress" --zone "us-central1-b"
However note will always ...
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How to migrate 'local notes' or 'on my mac' notes to iCloud?
I've seen so many questions asked about it, and I found a proper solution today while working. See below. I searched around, and everyone's answer has been either 'copy all of your notes manually' or ...
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How to move text up/down in Notes using keyboard shortcut?
I want to move text up/down in Notes via the keyboard. I know it is possible in xcode with ⌘ + ⌥ + [ or ⌘ + ⌥ + ]. But it doesn't work in Notes. Any ideas?
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How do I use AppleScript to open a specific note from Apple's Notes application?
I would like to create an AppleScript (or a command from Terminal) that opens a specific note from Apple's Notes application, preferably in a separate window. To be clear, I don't want to create a new ...
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Notes not syncing to and from iCloud from OS X Yosemite
Okay, this is extremely frustrating and weird. I've had syncing of notes to iCloud turned on for a while, and I was never really able to figure out when the notes were synced. It always seemed pretty ...
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Can I sync Notes to and from a secondary iCloud account?
I have my work iCloud account that needs to be primary for Keynote collaboration etc.
But all most Notes are in my personal iCloud account. I can use my personal iCloud account for iMessages and ...
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Keyboard shortcut for monospaced formatting in Notes app
Is there any way to define a keyboard shortcut for monospaced formatting in Apples Notes app? Any alternative suggestion to quickly format a single line monospaced without using the mouse?
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How can I use my Google Account with Apple apps (Mail, Calendar, etc) in OS X 10.10 and older?
For months, Google has been warning me that I "may lose access to apps that are using less secure sign-in technology".
The warnings directed to this page with more information. Starting on ...
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PDF exported from Notes is unreadable
I have some manuscript notes written in iPad Notes with Apple Pencil, which I need to export to PDF. Unfortunately the generated PDF is useless: For some reason, the text is squeezed in the left, ...
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How can I recover notes missing from the Notes app?
I recently opened the Notes app and found that about a month's worth of notes are missing. There is a gap between August 5th and September 3rd.
(This time period includes a note I wrote while in an ...
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How To Get Notes On Windows 10?
I switched from my Mac to a PC that runs Windows 10 and have all my notes from the notes app on my Mac. How can I get all my notes? Thanks!
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A single shortcut that changes text color in Notes?
When using Notes I often find myself changing the color of the text (usually to blue or red) as an additional way to indicate emphasis (alongside italics and bold).
The shortcut for displaying the ...
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How to use MacOS Notes "Note List Search..." to search non-deleted notes only?
I use "Note List Search..." and it's great. However, it searches through deleted notes as well and I sometimes I get confused. Is there a way to search only non-deleted notes?
This applies both to ...
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Is there a way to use Notes without using Mail.app
With iCloud I've found the notes app super handy now that it easily syncs to my iPhone and iPad. It also syncs to my mac via Mail.app, but I was wondering if there's an easy way to access and edit ...
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How to undelete notes on iPhone "Notes" app?
iPhone has a default "Notes" app which allows us to store notes. Stored notes can be deleted by hitting the "Delete Note" button:
How do we recover a note that is accidentally deleted?
Is there ...
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How do you cope with tons of web fonts when copying and pasting from web pages?
Whenever I copy something from the web and paste it in my Mail or Evernote, or Apple Notes, it always brings the text style from the page and inserts those weird looking fonts in my mail, or notes.
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How can I move my notes from one folder (gmail) to another (iCloud)?
I use Notes on my iPhone, iPad and Macbook Pro. Of late, the gmail syncing has been unreliable. I want to move all my gmails notes to the iCloud folder.
There doesn't seem to be a way to 'move' a ...
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Can I increase the default font size for the Notes in Mountain Lion?
Can I increase the default font size for the Notes in Mountain Lion?
The text is too small, I would like to see big characters when I create a new note instead.
UPDATE:
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How to change the date created and date modified of a note in Notes.app?
I'm trying to merge all of my text-based notes into Notes.app. My notes are all over the place: some in text files, some in email drafts, etc. I can of course just copy and paste the text of such ...