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Notes User Guide

• Welcome
• Get started
• Add or remove notes accounts
• Create, edit and format notes
  • Create and edit notes
  • Create a Quick Note
  • Record and transcribe audio
  • Format notes
    • Format notes
    • Add lists
    • Add a table
• Add and manage links and attachments
  • Add links
  • Add photos, PDFs and more
  • Manage PDFs and scanned documents
  • Mark up attachments
• Solve maths in Notes
  • Solve maths
  • Open Maths Notes from Calculator
• View your notes and attachments
  • View your notes
  • View attachments
  • Search your notes
  • Use Notes widgets to view notes
  • Customise how notes appear
• Lock your notes
  • Lock your notes
  • Change your password for locked notes
• Organise your notes
  • About accounts and folders
  • Add and remove folders
  • Sort and pin notes
  • Use tags
  • Use Smart Folders
  • Delete a note
• Share and collaborate on notes
  • Share your notes and folders
  • Manage shared notes and folders
  • Collaborate with shared notes and folders
• Import, export and print notes
• Manage notifications
• Change Notes settings
• Keyboard shortcuts and gestures
• Copyright and trademarks

You can view notes from all your Notes accounts at any time. By default, your notes are organised by date, so you can quickly see notes you’ve created or edited during a specific period of time.

Note: All Notes features described in this guide are available when using iCloud notes. Some features aren’t available when using accounts from other providers.

Open Notes for me

Open a note

1. Go to the Notes app on your Mac.

2. Select a folder under an account in the sidebar.

   • If you can’t see the sidebar: Choose View > Show Folders.

   • If you don’t see any folders: In the sidebar, position the pointer over the account name until appears, then click the button.

   Notes in the selected folder appear to the right of the list of folders. To change the order in which the notes appear, see