🖊️Quick Tips to Organize Your Life w the Notes App✨

💗 The notes app has always been a handy digital notebook for me and I eventually realized how much I use it for just about everything from grocery lists to drafting messages to jotting down story ideas. Here are a few tricks I’ve been using to keep myself and the app organized! 🌟🖊️

📝 Add a notes/quick note widget: Go to settings -> control center and add the “notes” or “quick note” widget if you haven’t already! “Notes” opens up the app instantly whereas “quick note” opens up to a new note on the same screen which later gets saved to the app. This way, notes are just one swipe away. ✨

📝 Use the gallery view: The app by default is on the list view, but the gallery view is a great way to see everything, especially if you have mixed media within your notes. It looks pretty too! ☺️

📝 Use tags for quick categorization: I learned this one by mistake when the hashtags in my Instagram caption drafts started showing up in this area 😂 but just like a hashtag, use the “#” before any phrase and then select one or multiple tags to pull up all the matches! If you enjoy keeping things categorized, this one is fantastic.

📝 Create folders and smart folders: Putting notes into folders is always helpful but smart folders are a newer feature. Smart folders will essentially tag all the notes that you put inside it with a tag (“#”) that matches the name of the folder. Anytime you tag future notes with that same tag, they will automatically be placed in the folder! 😍

📝 Search within documents: As someone who presses “ctrl+f” to pull up the search bar on every document on my laptop, having this “Word”-like feature within notes has been so helpful especially for longer writing sessions!

📝 Use lines and grids: If you enjoy free-styling and writing or drawing things by hand, this one can help add a little more structure to keep your notes organized!

📝 Lock the app or a specific note: To lock the app, just go to Passcodes in your settings and find Notes. To lock a specific note, simply click the “…” in the top right corner and press “lock”. Notes often become a convenient place to store private information and this can ensure an added layer of security to make sure things are safe!

Let me know if you found the tips helpful and find yourself reaching for the notes app as much as I do! 🤭 Have an awesome week everyone and keep jotting 🥰🌟📝

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