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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Move iPhone notes to iCloud
So, today 10.8 released, and I have empty list of notes on my mac. But I have some notes on iPhone, which are not in iCloud. How to move them into iCloud?
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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 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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Is there an OS X dashboard widget for notes from the iPhone Notes app?
I'm looking for a Dashboard widget for OS X that allows you to read and edit notes—the pieces of text in iPhone Notes application and Mail.app. (I.e., something analogous to the To Do Widget which ...
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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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Where are notes stored in Mountain Lion
I ha a hard drive that died recently in my macbook, I've replaced the hard drive etc so no issues there. Unfortunately, it appears I wasn't backing up the notes app to iCloud, and I really need to get ...
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How can I synchronize old notes with an email account on the iPhone?
I had hundreds of notes on my iPhone before I upgraded to OS 4.0. Now there is the new feature which allows me to sync the notes with an email account. I added my email account, but rather than sync ...
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How to make the “shake” commands easier?
When I want to undo some typing on Notes or Pages, I have to shake my ipod-touch like a crazy (and afraid that it may throw from my hand).
Isn't there a way to configure the "shake sensitivity", or ...
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Where do the Notes associated with Gmail accounts get synced to on iPod touch?
I noticed that notes, like Calendars, get synced with a Gmail account on the iPod touch.
But where do they get synced to? Where can I access them online?
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How do I create a global keyboard shortcut to create a new note in Notes.app or Reminders.app?
The new Notes app is great but How do I create a new note without switching to the Notes app first?
Same goes for Reminders.app.
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Where do my iPod's notes go when they're synchronized with my Gmail account?
Where do my iPod's notes go when they're synchronized with my Gmail account? Where can I find them in my browser?
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New Notes Will Not Sync From Mac to iPhone or iCloud
If I create a new note on my iMac (OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion), it will not appear on either iCloud or my iPhone 5 (updated with the latest iOS). However, I CAN edit existing notes and those changes do ...
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Sync notes with Mac and iPhone
I have recently upgraded to Mountain Lion. I like the Notes application but my notes do not sync with iCloud. The Notes checkbox is checked under System Preferences as is my Calendar and Contacts.
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Moving notes to iCloud
I just upgraded to mountain lion and noticed that I can only see notes in iCloud in the "Notes" application.
I have several notes related to a mail account that I would like to see on the Mac or move ...
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Easy way to get *all* Notes to synchronize via iCloud?
I have tons of notes on my iPhone. When iCloud came out, I created an account.
Now I have the Notes App in Mountain Lion, but only notes added after the iCloud account creation date are showing ...
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Is it possible to create an icon on home screen to a specific note?
I'd like to to add an icon to my homescreen that takes me directly to a specific note. What I was thinking was doing it by having a bookmark in safari that triggers that note, and adding a shortcut to ...
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iCloud prompts me to create a free @me.com email address to turn on Notes sync
I'm very aware this question is probably about to become obsolete with the release of iOS 6 at some point soon, but thought I'd ask anyway.
I have an iCloud account set up on my phone with the email ...
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Can iCloud notes be synced with different accounts?
Is it possible to synchronize notes with different accounts? For example, if I write something in my notes - my friend will open his notes with his account and see the change.
Is this possible?
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Why are notes not being saved when using Notes on my macbook pro?
I keep having this issue where I will
Add a note to Notes
Close the app
Come back later and open it and its no longer there.
There is no Save button on the so assume that once i click "+" and add ...
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How do I “pin” Notes in Mountain Lion?
The official feature list for Mountain Lion says that individual notes opened into their own windows from the Notes app (1.0) remain "pinned" open "even if you close Notes", but this isn't true. ...
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Can I recover a deleted iCloud note?
I'm syncing my iPhone's Notes to iCloud. If I delete one of these notes, is it permanently deleted, or is there a way for me to recover it?
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Why can't I see some of my notes from my iphone on my macbook?
There are some notes that I created on my iphone and i can't see them on my macbook pro. I have icloud turned on everywhere and I do see certain notes synced across my devices but some are just on ...
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iPad iOS6 built-in Notes app - where are the notes stored?
I was thinking about migrating a majority of my text-based notes from Evernote to the built-in Notes app. Evernote wants 4.99 a month to store off-line notebooks on your mobil e device. I currently ...
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Is there a Mountain Lion dashboard widget that displays notes from iCloud?
I am using the notes functionality in iOS as well as MacOS. My notes sync through iCloud. Works super.
Now, I'd like to have the notes displayed in my MacOS dashboard. Is there a notes dashboard ...
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Mac Notes Keeps Opening Up every 5 seconds
Yesterday, I decided to set up iMessage on my Macbook Pro. And ever since then, Mac Notes keeps opening up every 5 seconds. I close it, or force quit, and it opens again in 5 seconds. But even when ...
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Notes - Setting up for use with iCloud
Why do I have to enable 'Notes' in both "Settings > iCloud > Notes" and also in "Mail, Contacts, Calendar" > [iCloud account name] > "Notes"?
If I do not set both of these 'Notes' to 'On', the iCloud ...
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How do I insert a picture into the Notes app?
I use the Notes app for keeping track and sharing the extended notes with fellow physicians in cardiology studies. There are a lot of pros to this app and I would find it very much useful if I could ...
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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 iClould 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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Removing Reminders and Notes from the dock?
After upgrading to Mountain Lion today, I'm noticing the Reminders and Notes apps now having been added to the dock.
Great way to discover those apps if you're not aware of them, but I'm not going to ...
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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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Sync Notes on iphone with a txt file on windows PC
Is there any way to sync a txt file on the windows filesystem with a Notes file on the iOS device- iphone or ipad. I regularly take my notes on my PC but want them to be viewable on my iPhone. Could ...
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How to sync Notes over iCloud?
I am having trouble getting my iPhone to see the notes that are stored on my iCloud account.
So, my computer is running OS X Lion, on System Preferences > iCloud the "Mail and Notes" option is ...
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Sync iOS Notes with Exchange
Why is it that I can sync Apple Notes with Exchange on Mountain Lion but not with iOS 6?
Is there any way to sync iOS notes with Exchange like I can with iOS Reminders?
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How to synchronize new Notes from iPad to Mac
I upgraded my iTune to iTune 11, and no longer find the option to synchronize note. I do not like to use iCloud (no WiFI or Cellular), but cannot figure a way to synchronize (or download) the note on ...
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Downloading Notes app notes without iCloud?
Is there any way to get notes from the iOS 6 Notes app off of an iPhone without requiring an internet connection (or thus iCloud)?
iTunes Sync, which did Sync Notes on iOS 5 to Mail app on OS X ...
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Can I remove the lines in the Notes.app and change the line spacing?
The only reason I use the Notes.app and not Stickies.app is iCloud sync.
I enjoy the customization (colors, fonts, minimized view) and minimalism (plain background, thin borders) of Stickies over the ...
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How does data get “imported” into ML's new features?
I'm a little concerned about upgrading to Mountain Lion right now because I'm not sure how some of the data I have on my machine will get shoehorned into Mountain Lion's new apps and features.
Does ...
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Syncing Notes with Gmail & iCloud
In the Mail, Contacts & Calendars Preference pane, you can have Notes synchronize with a Gmail account.
I've already got it setup to work nicely with iCloud, but..
Where do I go in Gmail to read ...
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Notes.app on Mountain Lion: How can I change the default folder view?
I use the Notes app with iCloud. The 'Notes' folder under 'iCloud' is set as my default account under Notes > Default Account > iCloud. This ensures that new notes are created in iCloud instead of on ...
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Iphone Notes synched on different accounts in phone does not push to the mac
Problem
Mac does not receive all notes from Phone.
Apparently I changed the default to Gmail and now those notes do not appear on the mac. I tryed changing mac settings and accounts...
Is there a way ...
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Notes keeps prompting me for POP passwords
The Apple Notes app (Mountain Lion) keeps asking me to enter passwords for my various email accounts (POP) that I've added to Mail. Mail does not prompt me to re-enter any passwords, but sometimes ...
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iCloud seems to delete Notes taken on my Mac when offline
I have just set up the Notes.app on my MBP (Running OSX 10.8.2) to link up with my iCloud account so that I could begin working with synchronised notes.
I make a lot of notes while I am out and about ...
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Why might pasting an URL link into iCloud from a PC make that link inactive on iOS in notes?
If I paste a link/URL into the notes app from my iPhone, it works fine, I can tap on it and have it open in Safari.
When I try to paste a link from my Windows computer, via icloud.com, the note shows ...
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Can Apple's Notes handle pictures pasted from Clipboard?
I was viewing an article and taking random screenshots from interesting parts and pasting them in Notes. Today I open Notes and the pictures are gone, and Notes crashes if I try to select the missing ...
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How can I sync notes from the Mac OS Notes app to plain text?
I'd like to sync my notes in the Mac OS (Mountain Lion) Notes app to plain text files. E.g., if I have a note called "shopping list" in the Notes app, I'd like to find a way to automatically export ...
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Why did my iPhone Notes stop syncing with Gmail?
I just logged into Gmail and noticed that the last note to sync was from 6 days ago, even though I have newer notes on my iPhone.
When I try to test it now by deleting, updating, or adding a note, it ...
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Why do i need a new email account to sync my notes in iCloud?
I sync reminders fine but now i want me notes to sync from my mac to the iphone but when i turn on notes in iCloud it says i have to create an icloud email address (even though my gmail account is ...
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Simplenote or Evernote or something else?
What is the best way to keep my notes stored in the cloud? I want to access them fast and they should be editable on every device I use. (iPhone, iMac, Windows, etc.) What do you personally use? ...
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Notes disappearing right after creation
Sometimes a note in Notes suddenly disappears. It usually (always?) happens just in a few seconds after the creation, while I'm still editing the note.
What causes this kind of behavior and how can I ...
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Open Notes.app notes in an external editor
I'd like to be able to search for words within the notes that I write in Notes.app. Since the search bar only narrows the list of notes, and doesn't actually highlight the word, I'd like to be able to ...
