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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Multiple tabs in apple notes
is there a way to open multiple notes in apple notes at the same time. It is the app I use for note taking at the moment (I keep changing but recently I've been using apple's default apps) and if I ...
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Notes taken on iPad occur blurry on mac
I have taken a handwritten note using my Apple pencil. I sync the notes via iCloud. Some of the notes appear not full-width in Notes on Mac; rather, they are displayed very small and blurry. The ...
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Line thickness when sketching in Notes on iPad
I recently got an iPad Pro with Apple pencil and smart keyboard. I like it a lot! I often need to create a quick sketch, and the Notes app seems perfect...
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I can't figure out how to change ...
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Recovering non-synched iCloud notes
I created a few notes on my MacBook in iCloud folder. When I realized that the notes weren't synching, I turned off and on notes in Settings → iCloud.
My new notes are lost (they are not present in ...
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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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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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Notes app on MacOS stuck in cycle of high CPU and eventual crash
My Notes app recently got stuck in a cycle of high CPU (~125%) and eventual crash. Or, more accurately, I should say that my Notes iCloud data recently started crashing the Notes app on multiple ...
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group.com.apple.notes is taking up huge amounts of disk space
Further to yesterdays question about Apple Notes taking up huge amounts of space on my iPhone, on my Mac the folder group.com.apple.notes\media is taking up 13.1GB.
Each folder has a zip file and ...
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MacOS Notes App: Font keeps changing
I think it’s bad enough that you can’t properly change the default font (not just the size) in the Notes App.
I have got used to selecting all and changing the font manually. However, if I press ...
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Apple Notes - using different Passwords for locking and unlocking
I have a long-standing password for locking notes in the macOS Notes app. Today I attempted to lock a new note and I got an error message telling me that my Notes password is incorrect.
I tried it ...
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Does iOS 9 Notes no longer sync with more recent versions of iOS/Mac OS
I have an old iPad running iOS 9.3.5 (the latest version that the hardware will support). I also use an iPhone (iOS 12.2) an iMac (High Sierra) and a MacBook Pro (also High Sierra).
Notes sync ...
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Notes.app is ignoring changes I make to DefaultFonts.plist
In Notes, I want to use a specific font size and style, which I'm able to set via "Show Fonts". However, when you use a bulleted list, Notes ignores the font size and style from that point on and ...
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Missing a note in the Notes app
Here's the issue I'm faced with:
Notice the "Bookmarks -2" in Inoreader's share view and the lack of that note in the Notes app.
I have only one iCloud account associated with the Notes app and I ...
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Makes notes on a mac which contains source code
I love the notes app on the mac. One problem I face is that if I am making notes on the app and try to put some source code in it. the notes app completely screws up the formatting. It will mess up ...
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Notes lost on iCloud
Took my iPad & iPhone to Apple Store for numerous problems. They backed both up to the cloud, showed me everything was there; including my notes which are my entire business. I make organic soaps &...
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How to sort notes with Notes.app on El Capitan
In the previous versions of Notes.app there was a possibility to sort the notes, either by creation dates or by 'last updated' dates.
I can't do that with El Cap, that's a bit annoying, I want my ...
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Notes synchronisation with google account, uncountable notes generated
I have setup my macbook to sync with my google account for notes and apparently for each note that i start to write on my mac several versions, i believe all versions of the notes (after each ...
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Notes.app on OS X crashing whenever I make an edit in the iOS app
Notes.app on OS X crashes whenever I make an edit in the iOS app and it syncs back down to my Mac. When it crashes, I just open up the app again, and everything is synced up and works perfectly. The ...
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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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Apple's Notes forgetting notes -- why?
I started to use the default Notes app over iPhone, iPad and Macbook. After it sends me an email about the note, the note gets removed. I want to keep the notes. My friend suspected a time-drift bug ...
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How to Sync Notes El Capitan to iOS 9 via IMAP
Yes, I know Apple says this will no longer work. But it continues to work just fine on iOS 9 devices. Both iPad and iPhone iOS 9 devices continue to sync via my IMAP account. I enter or modify a note ...
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Restoring iCloud Notes from local copy
I used Notes on three MacOS/iOS devices (iCloud synchronization enabled). Accidentally I removed iCloud data. There were about 1000 notes, part of them were with attachments.
Apple support can’t help ...
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When changing keyboard input language, I want to change the font size too
I take notes (in Notes mainly) in both English and Korean, so I switch keyboard input language frequently. A font size of 13 is good for english, but the Korean characters are more readable with a ...
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Restore iPhone Note from iCloud
On an iPhone with iOS 16, how does one restore a single note from iCloud? I need to recover the proper version of the note.
(I did not delete the file. I edited it, and Notes doesn't seem to have an ...
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How to get a bitmap from a scan in Apple Notes
I love the scanning capability of Apple Notes, it does a great job of squaring up the images, and the black and white seems to have a good adaptive thresholding algorithm.
But, I can't find any way to ...
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How to add screenshots from iOS Store links in the iPhone Notes app?
This is a strange one. Last year I created a Notes folder with my iPhone and started saving links to some apps from the iOS Store, each one as a separate note. I just added a title and pasted the link,...
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What's the maximum tag count supported in the notes app?
Now that iOS supports tags natively in the Notes app what's the limit on the number of tags one can create?
I don't see anything mentioned in the corresponding support page
Use Tags and Smart Folders ...
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How to share a scanned document from the Notes app with a shortcut
I have scanned PDFs I want to share to a shortcut to process them further. However, when sharing from the share sheet that props up when I click on the share button in the Notes app for my shortcut it ...
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Export notes as a (high quality) pdf
I want to export a note as a pdf, but the option "export as a pdf" in the Notes app generates a poor quality pdf. Is there some solution for this, or perhaps a third party software able to ...
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macOS - scanned document not showing properly in Notes.app
I was on macOS 12.1 and iOS 15.2, and scanned a document in Notes on my iPhone and it showed up on my Mac like this:
The scanned doc wasn't showing a preview and didn't open when I double clicked on ...
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Do edits in iPhone notes have a timestamp?
I'm trying to find proof I wrote something in a Note on a certain date. But I use this particular Note all the time and I've made many updates since the time I'm trying to prove I wrote a specific ...
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Restore a deleted Note - no Deleted Notes folder?
I put my phone in my pocket unlocked and when I took it out again it had opened Notes, deleted my growing task list and made a new empty note.
I opened Notes on my Mac, and saw the note in question, ...
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Does Mac Notes always pull all notes from iCloud?
I've always tried keeping offline backups of all cloud services over the years, like my calendars, contacts, notes, etc.
With iCloud stuff, specifically Notes, it's not so easy - there is no export or ...
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Notes not appearing on PDF when reopened
I bought my first MacBook Air and am having trouble with the Preview app.
I am reading a PDF and have highlighted some important phrases and added notes(or memos) for future references.
So here is ...
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Apple Notes: Could someone help write a script for me that opens Notes.app, creates blank new note, opens note in sep window, bring to front?
The kind of shortcut I'm looking for is essentially: double-click an icon on right screen, launch "NEW NOTE", POP it to FRONT, so I can immediately begin typing or paste my selection into.
I'...
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Configure Native Notes.app to Use Monospaced by Default
For every carriage return on a monospaced line, the following line resets to the default Body format. I used this post as a reference but everything's outdated and I don't find anything else recent ...
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Apple Notes isn't letting me zoom in when using separate window on macOS
When I'm writing a note in a popped out window (by double-clicking on the note in the list), the "zoom in/out/actual size" options in the view menu are disabled. Most of the view menu is ...
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Are there iOS apps for taking notes with Apple Pencil in color, grid, and with pages to print?
I am searching for an app, in which I can take notes during lectures. To be more specific I would like to find an app which extends the default notes app in the following ways:
Creating a color ...
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Is there any way to recover overwritten notes on mac?
I pasted something on top of a note on my Mac that had some moderately important stuff, switched notes (which means no ctrl-z), and I'm trying to recover it. My first mistake is that I unfortunately ...
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using Notes app app simultaneously on Sierra and Catalina systems
My main system is on macOS Sierra. I'm testing macOS Catalina on an external startup disk to see how my old machine will handle the new OS (I know it's late, but...) On the Catalina test system I'm ...
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Need help restoring Mac OS Notes
My work computer's RAM is broken. This isn't allowing it to boot properly. So I've got my personal mac tethered to the work mac via data transfer. I can see the notes DB files, and have transferred ...
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Can I trigger a series of keyboard shortcuts with a single action on iOS?
For example, on an iPad with iOS 13, if I want to automate the following (in the app Notes):
Command Shift Down
Command X
Command Up
Down
Command V
Is there any way to trigger that sequence of ...
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Recover Text within iPhone Notes (seeking advice other than "shaking" the phone)
In my iPhone notes, I had created a "note" and had lots of text typed in there. By mistake, I deleted most of the text I had typed inside of the "note". Is there a way I can retrieve that text? I did ...
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How to remove all checked items in Notes?
How can I remove all checked items in Notes on iOS easily? From e.g. a grocery list, I want to remove all items (checkbox and text) that have been checked with a simple action.
I think I did this ...
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Self storage of notes with extended formatting
The notes app on OSX and iOS offers to sync notes with e-mail accounts. I noticed that for notes synced with an icloud account, the app offers extended formatting possibilies (I use checkboxes and ...
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How to make AppleScript ignore escape characters in string to make a Note
I have a python script that takes a user's input and inserts it into the name and body parameter of the make new note apple script. The problem is that any escape or special characters get interpreted ...
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iOS Notes - I shared a note and can't see other person edits, while he can see mine
iPad 2018, iOS 12.1.4 - I created a note in the cloud (Notes are On in the iCloud settings, the note is certainly not in "on my phone" category) - share (the person icon, not the share icon) - copy ...
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I've suddenly lost all my Gmail notes on my iMac Pro
I've suddenly lost all my Gmail notes on my iMac Pro. By lost, I mean I open the Apple notes app and see no items.
I lost them on my iPhone last week and was unable to find a good documented process ...
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How can I extract my MacBook Pro Notes files so that the data becomes "normal" again after my computer's file system crashed?
My MacBook Pro from ca. 2011-2013 or something kind of "crashed" - the computer's file system was ruined - when I did a manual forced shutdown because the Notes app was not responding. When I turned ...
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iPad mini iOS 12.0 - Can't move Notes to Gmail
In the Apple Notes app, I see an ICLOUD folder and a GMAIL folder. When I select "Edit" -> "Move All" the only option is to select ICLOUD. GMAIL isn't an option.
I am able to copy notes to the ICLOUD ...
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