Notes

Working in the web application

The folders come first: All notes, then Notes and its folders, each with how many notes it holds. Choosing one lists its notes, newest change first, under Today, Yesterday, the previous 7 and 30 days, then each month and year. A row shows the note's title, when it changed and the line after the title.

• New note opens an empty note in the folder you are in. The first line is its title. There is no Save button: a note saves shortly after you stop typing, and when you leave it. A note you leave empty is deleted.
• Search looks through the titles and text of every note, or of the folder you are in.
• The note's bar holds the styles — Title, Heading, Subheading, Body and Monospaced — bold, italic, underline and strikethrough, bulleted, dashed and numbered lists and checklists with indent and outdent, a link, an image and a file. Paste or drop an image or a file into the note; a file shows as its name and downloads when pressed.
• Checklists: choose Checklist in the lists menu, and tick an item by its box or with Mark as done. In Apple Notes on your devices a checklist is a list starting with ☐ and ☑, which you can read but not tick there.
• Edit as Markdown turns the note into Markdown text and back. The note is stored the same way either way; the choice is remembered on this device.
• Move to folder and Delete note are in the same bar; a deleted note goes to Trash in Mail. New folder, and in a folder's bar Rename folder and Delete folder, manage the folders — Notes itself cannot be renamed or deleted.

Notes on your devices

Add your account to Apple Notes as a mail account with IMAP and turn on Notes for it — the IMAP settings are in the Mail chapter, the app password in Accounts. Notes kept in iCloud or "On My iPhone" stay there; only the notes of this account are shared with the web application.

Offline

Opened from its home-screen bookmark, the application keeps a copy of your notes and their images and files on the device and works without a network; what you change is sent when the network comes back. Adding an image or a file needs a connection. Remove from this device, in the header, deletes the copy.

What to know

• Notes of someone whose mail you can read appear under their name, and can be changed as far as your access to their mail reaches.
• What a note can hold is what Apple Notes keeps in a mail account: tables, pinned and locked notes and sharing a single note live only in iCloud and are not available here. A note's images and files are its own; pictures from the web are not loaded into a note.