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• #IOS QUICK NOTES WINDOWS#

Quick Note can be assigned to Hot Corners on the Mac. There are also many built-in system apps that would benefit from the sort of tight integration with Quick Note that Safari has implemented but don’t yet. Chief among the feature’s drawbacks is that its capture functionality is nowhere to be found on the iPhone, which is disappointing. As a result, I expect we’ll see many developers support Quick Note this fall.Īlthough Quick Note already works well on the iPad and Mac, there’s still more Apple can do to make it more useful. Even during the beta period, it works with apps I use that haven’t done anything to support it. Some years, Apple introduces interesting new features that I hope will take off, but there’s a lag because they’re based on new technologies that developers don’t or can’t support right away due to compatibility issues with older OS versions. Notes needs work to make it easier to get the information you gather with Quick Note out of the app, but already, there is a long list of apps that support the feature thanks to the wide use of NSUserActivity among developers. Best of all, notes can be linked to their source material in apps that support NSUserActivity, a virtual Swiss Army Knife API that enables a long list of functionality across Apple’s devices. Quick Note can be summoned immediately in a wide variety of ways on both platforms, and your notes are stored where they can be easily found again. This fall, when iPadOS 15 and macOS Monterey are released, Notes will gain a new feature called Quick Note that’s designed to handle this exact scenario. Moreover, the notes you take are completely divorced from their source, losing important context about why you saved something. By the same token, though, a plain text editor doesn’t always fit the bill either, reducing links to raw URLs and often not handling images at all. You don’t need to fire up a word processor to collect links, images, and text, for example. There is an endless number of apps and automations for collecting information, but I’ve always found that the best options are the lightest weight. Reading, thinking, organizing, and planning come later. This stage is almost always a speed run for me, no matter the context. Whether I’m planning a family trip or preparing to write a story like this one, the first step is research, which starts with collecting information. You can keep Quick Notes filed in the Quick Notes section, or you can move selected notes to other parts of your notebooks.When I’m researching, speed is essential. Repeat the previous steps for any additional Quick Notes you want to create.

To cancel pinning a note to the top of your screen, repeat step 1. In any Quick Note that you want to keep visible, click View > Always on Top. Note: Even when OneNote isn’t running, any Quick Notes that you’ve created are automatically saved to your notebook’s Quick Notes section.

To move a page, right-click the page tab, choose Move or Copy, and follow the prompts. You can keep Quick Notes filed in the Quick Notes section, or you can move selected notes to other parts of your notebooks. In the Quick Notes section, click the tabs of the pages you want to review. Near the top of the current page, click the name of your current notebook (for example “My Notebook”).Īt the bottom of the Notebook list, click Quick Notes. No matter how or when you created them, you can easily look through all of your Quick Notes whenever you want. To stop a note from being pinned to the top of your screen, repeat step 1 (the button is a toggle). Move each pinned note to the position of your screen where you want to keep it displayed. (If you don't see the toolbar, click the. In any Quick Note that you want to keep visible, on the toolbar, choose View > Always on Top.

#IOS QUICK NOTES WINDOWS#

If you’re using Quick Notes to keep small reminders and important information visible at all times, you can pin them so that they stay visible over any other windows on your computer screen. Tip: To open additional Quick Notes, press Windows + Alt + N on your keyboard for each additional Quick Note that you want to create.