Apple’s native Notes utility is, by far, my most used Apple app. I exploit it for jotting down concepts, scripting out movies, hand-drawing tough drafts of thumbnails, bookmarking web sites, and a lot extra. I wish to showcase some Notes options that can actually assist the on a regular basis consumer maximize their expertise!

Earlier than we begin

I wished to say that I will likely be utilizing the iPad Professional to clarify these Notes options, however these will all additionally work with any iPad and any iPhone as properly. Be sure to are on the newest model of iOS & iPadOS to keep away from any points with these options! Let’s get began!

1. Scanning Paperwork into PDFs

Scanning paperwork right into a word is one thing I do on a weekly foundation. Whether or not it’s a enterprise card from an expo, a parking ticket, or simply receipts from my final grocery journey, it’s at all times good to avoid wasting a doc that corresponds together with your word. Scanning a doc has turn into quite simple.

• Begin a brand new word.
• Hit the digital camera icon on the highest heart of the word.
• Faucet scan paperwork, level your digital camera on the doc you wish to scan, the iPad will spotlight what it thinks you wish to scan, and voila!
• The iPad will mechanically scan the doc with out you needing to even press the shutter button.

There’s a handbook toggle you possibly can press, that’s used to aide within the scan. If the iPad messes up or doesn’t totally acknowledge the form of the doc, you possibly can manually ensure it scans your complete doc!

2. Scanning textual content from something

This needs to be one of many coolest options that iOS and iPadOS affords – with the ability to scan textual content from actually something and convert it into typed textual content. It isn’t good, so I do counsel scanning legible textual content, however even with some bizarre fonts or unhealthy handwriting, it is ready to discover out what the textual content is.

• Begin a brand new word.
• Hit the digital camera icon on the highest heart of the word.
• Faucet the scan textual content possibility. A viewfinder will pop up on the show.
• Level the digital camera on the textual content and you’ll see, in actual time, how the textual content from the picture will get transformed into usable and editable textual content in your word.

3. Find out how to use and arrange fast notes

Fast Notes was launched again with iOS 15 as a brand new type of interacting together with your notes app via a floating window. It was a small, floating window of the Notes app that could possibly be positioned anyplace on the display to take a fast word. There are two methods of getting fast notes arrange.

The primary approach is thru the notes settings. Go to Settings > Notes > Nook Gestures.

It’s also possible to launch Fast Notes by including it to your management heart. Go to Settings > Management Heart > Add Fast Word.

Now that it’s all arrange, you possibly can simply launch the Fast Word characteristic by swiping on the underside nook of your iPad or flattening the management heart and urgent on the Fast Notes toggle; what makes the Fast Word characteristic so helpful is that it’s fully resizable and acts precisely like the traditional Notes app. You may kind on there, use your pencil, draw together with your finger, add hyperlinks, add bookmarks, navigate via older notes, and extra.

4. Locking particular person notes

The power to lock notes natively in iOS is a brand new one. There have at all times been workarounds to this as a result of it was a extremely requested characteristic, however now you possibly can lock any word straight from the Notes app! All you must do is:

• Faucet the three dots on the highest proper nook.
• Faucet the lock button.
• It is going to ask you to enter a pin.
• Then, a lock icon seems on the highest proper nook with the lock within the unlocked place.
• Faucet the lock icon to lock the word.

5. Use Siri to take a word

I not too long ago came upon that you need to use Siri to take down a word, and its been a recreation changer!

• Activate Siri (lengthy press on the lock button or say Hey Siri).
• Say “Take down this word.”
• Siri will reply with, “What would you like it to say?”
• Then, communicate your word.
• Siri then exhibits a preview of your word and you’ll faucet it to be taken into the Notes app.

Wrap-up

Above is a full walkthrough video highlighting the remainder of my 12 favourite Apple Notes options that I exploit on a weekly foundation. Apple Notes is without doubt one of the most strong note-taking functions on the market, and whenever you pair it with Apple’s new Freeform app, it actually completes the ecosystem.

What are your favourite Apple Notes options and which options do you utilize probably the most? Do you even use Apple Notes, or do you utilize one other note-taking utility? What’s one characteristic that you simply assume Apple Notes remains to be lacking? Let me know with a remark beneath and we are able to focus on!

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