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.
Questions tagged [notes.app]
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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?
Tez
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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 notes that doesn't require opening my email.
Any way…
Lee McAlilly
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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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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 notes into Notes.app, but then their date created and…
Vincent
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Finding the folder a note is stored in in Notes
This seems so basic, but just can't figure it:
I can easily find a note with an unique bit of text, but finding WHERE in my list of folders the note is stored seems impossible. One would think that when you tap a found note, the note's folder would…
drew..
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Is there a way to add a background color in Apple notes?
I'm using MacOs Mojave 10.14.6
I've looked for the function, but can't get any useful info on it. It seems like a simple function to me, but I can't find it on the menu.
Rick D
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In Notes.app, how do you add columns to a table?
I'm using Version 4.5 of Notes.app
There's an option to add a table. I see that if I tab through the table then rows will be added, but I'm not finding a way to add columns to the table.
Is it possible?
JuJoDi
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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 it's idle Mac Notes is restarting every 5…
Andrew
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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 fix this?
(Technical details: OS X 10.8.2, GMail…
Grigory M
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Use cross-reference in Mac Notes
I used to use personal WIKIs to organize personal info, but due to increasingly strong browser security control and poor mobile support, I switched to Mac/iOS Notes and find it very comfortable to work with, except for one quirk:
I can't find a way…
kakyo
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Recover Notes from El Capitan in High Sierra
My El Capitan machine unexpectedly died, and I salvaged the disk drive from it to put into an external enclosure attached to my new Mac, which runs High Sierra. (I never used Sierra at all, since my old Mac couldn't support it.)
Now, how do I get…
Mike Robinson
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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 quotations, put line indentations.
It seems that…
Knows Not Much
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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 open the notes in an external editor to perform…
aaronstacy
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Always "View as Small Images" macOS Apple Notes
How do I make
"View as Small Images"
the default any time I add an image in Apple Notes?
Riveascore
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How to have Quick Notes not "Float on top" by default
I have macOS Monterey, and I use the "Quick Notes" hot corner. I hate the fact that every time I use the hot corner, Notes starts with the "Float on top" option, and I have to disable it manually:
Is there a way to have it off by default? I have…
DeltaIV
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