It would also be nice if you trained yourself to be disciplined and get these notes out of the Quick Note folder in Apple Notes, but the key is the need to adopt the feature.Īnd the technical problem is that you will have to unlearn something. You have to know it's there, you have to positively choose to create, add or edit one, and that takes time. The personal is that you must remember that this feature does not exist at all.Īside from accidentally hovering your mouse in the bottom right corner, there's nothing to tell you that you could write a Sticky Note. There are two things that take getting used to in the new Sticky Notes, and one of them is technical, while the other is more personal. You can still click on its title and, for example, open the entire note in the same separate window that appears when you created it. Sticky Notes are meant to be the fastest possible way to get an idea out of your head or maintain the website you want.Īlso note that if you move a sticky note to another folder in Apple Notes, it will still be a sticky note. Quick Notes isn't like a word processing document where it's worth taking a moment to decide exactly where to save it. But notes have to go somewhere, and always creating them in a new inbox called Sticky Notes means we don't have to think. The new Quick Notes folder in Apple Notes is an inbox, and you don't need to leave anything there. There is currently no way to save a sticky note directly to any other folder.Įxcept once you've created a Sticky Note, you can go to Apple Notes, drag it out of that folder, and drop it wherever you want. Specifically, any notes you create this way go into a new folder called Sticky Notes. The second criticism though was that it doesn't actually use exactly Apple Notes, it uses a new subset of it. It is completely true now and surely it will always be so. One was that it only worked with Apple Notes and that's totally true. There were two reasonably common key criticisms of Apple's Quick Notes feature when it was announced. Instead, if you can't see the associated sticky note, click on the web page and it will appear.

Don't move your mouse to the bottom right corner, that just shows a new blank white square. When you return to that page, the quick note appears and is now a thumbnail of the note you saved earlier. Now you see why Apple shows a large white square in the bottom left: now it can show you more. Go back to the Safari web page you added a sticky note about. But luckily, you can change the key binding to something else, and that will work. It clearly isn't or you couldn't write the words Quick Note.

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