Organizing your life with Apple Notes

Apple Notes is the best notetaking app for people deeply engrained in the Apple ecosystem. There's no friction to get started! These are my favorite features and tips for Apple Notes on iPhone, iPad, and Mac.

0:00 - Intro
0:39 - Setting up quick notes
2:05 - Folders, tags, and smart folders
4:00 - Password protect notes
4:39 - Creating shared folders
5:33 - Linking to separate notes
6:31 - Scanning PDFs with Apple Notes

[chriscardoso]

Are you using Apple Notes or something else to organize your life?

[CybernerdShua]

Hey, mate. I noticed comments talking about vocal fry. If you're looking to reduce vocal fry, I've found that it helps to practice speaking more with the _center to back_ of your tongue. This tends to force you to use a slightly higher register by keeping your vocal chords from being too relaxed.

It'll take A LOT of work. Vocal fry like yours also isn't too bothersome so long as you don't speak with a nasally tone, which you seem to avoid for most of the vid. Vocal fry is the "it thing" in vocals to hate, at the moment. Only fix it if _you_ feel like you should.

Another thing that will help is to turn down the gain on your microphone. I noticed it sounds quite strong and gain tends to amplify lower resonance.

[AdrienMelody]

I’ve been documenting all my ideas and practically my entire life in Apple Notes for years, ever since I got my first iPhone in 2014. I’m so pleased with all the brilliant features Apple has added to it over the years. It’s cool that I’m not the only one whose experience with it has been so great!

[MelconWagner]

That's amazing! I had no idea that you could do all that in Apple Notes. I especially like the organizational possibilities of certain notes and docs. Wow! Thanks for making this video. You've definitely blown my mind with this!

[udojetschmanegg]

Don’t forget the OCR features for scanned docs.

[darleneroggio]

Thank you for this video, I’ve been trying to decide between all the things out there but this is the exact simplicity I want.

[merslife]

trying to minimize use of apps and focusing on what i already have. you have explained this app very well, will be subscribing!

[hussam]

phenomenal content, straight to the point, no ads or marketing or lies for money. I like it and I wish you the best . from Middle East with love

[greenlinkin]

I’m currently using Apple Notes and I love it! Thanks for sharing!

[gdbryan]

I am really appreciating iNotes the more I use it. And I have a ton of note applications, which makes me like Apple notes so much more!

[sapham]

Thanks for your video! I have been using Apple notes for years, but your reading lists make me surprise !

[NinPossible]

This is very useful! I didn’t even know about folders under folders. Gotta do it now so my notes will look cleaner! Thanks for the tips!

[DaltonLitz]

This video comes out literally right after I completely build my workflow in Notion 🙃 - Intro is extremely accurate though. I will probably be back to Apple notes in no time...

[ZengetsuFR]

Apple note is really great. For some specific tasks like my daily working note i use Obsidian.

[semsomify]

Great video! Thanks a lot for sharing these tricks and techniques. I also love how you’re humbly responding to the comments giving you feedback to try to improve your future videos. Hope all that effort pays off and your channel grows to be big.

[songsan]

Lots of great tips for me to learn. Used Apple Notes on iPad 1 but found it lacking compared to other notes apps. Gave it another try while watching your video and lots of pretty cool features.

[russemerson]

Just started with GTD and trying to use Notion. As I’m just learning it as well I was getting very frustrated. I defaulted to Apple Notes as my InBox (especially for the web links ), but now you’ve shown me I can do so much more with it that I might not need motion at all!

[andresvaldevit]

I use it but I did not know the extent of all these features. Now I like it even more

[zhangmxin]

Link to separate notes is awesome, thanks.

[Ievoj]

combination of apple notes and obsidian has been the sweet spot for me. apple notes on mobile for its simplicity, quick, on-the-fly thoughts/lists/etc that need to be jotted down that acts as an inbox system. from there i'll make the decision at a later time on whether it is worth moving into my permanent workflow setup in Obsidian.