Apple's Notes App Now Lets You Create Links Between Notes

[MacRumors]

Apple's stock Notes app got hardly any screen time during yesterday's WWDC keynote, but one powerful addition to the app in iOS 17 is a new ability to link notes and connect related notes together.

With just a few taps, you can create links between notes, making it easy to jump from one idea to another. Long press on a space in any note, and a new "Add Link" option can be found in the pop-up menu. Tapping it lets you link to another note by searching its title or entering a URL.

You can create an optional alternative title for the link, or just stick with the original title for clarity. Once you're done, the link appears as hyperlink-style underlined text in your note, and tapping it snaps you straight into the note you linked to.

The Notes app also offers an additional, quicker way to add links: Typing two greater-than symbols (>>) into a note invokes a list containing your six most recently modified notes, and tapping one instantly adds a link to that note.

The same feature can be found in iPadOS 17 and macOS Sonoma, and it means you can now create wiki-style collections of interlinked notes, allowing you to organize your thoughts or discover new connections and associations between ideas.

iOS 17, iPadOS 17, and macOS Sonoma are available in developer beta versions now and will be officially released in the fall.

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[seymansey]

This is interesting, for those of us who are into PKM (Personal Knowledge Management) this is a good step towards being able to use Apple Notes as a simpler alternative to some of the more hardcore PKM solutions such as Obsidian.

 

[Love-hate 🍏 relationship]

Goddamn this is amazing !!! Finally

 

[jonnysods]

I'd like to be able to resize images in notes like OneNote (which I left behind and shifted to Notes)

 

[tomnavratil]

Wish they supported proper Markdown syntax, that would be awesome.

 

[infomofo]

This is interesting, for those of us who are into PKM (Personal Knowledge Management) this is a good step towards being able to use Apple Notes as a simpler alternative to some of the more hardcore PKM solutions such as Obsidian.

It will be interesting if this integrates well with the journal feature. If that’s the case I would be tempted to migrate from obsidian.

 

[Aston441]

Back in the day, there were "files" in "folders."

 

[klasma]

Finally we can mirror Wikipedia to Apple Notes!

 

[PsykX]

This is interesting, for those of us who are into PKM (Personal Knowledge Management) this is a good step towards being able to use Apple Notes as a simpler alternative to some of the more hardcore PKM solutions such as Obsidian.

Man, I'm into Notion since 2018 and didn't even know there was an acronym for that.

 

[johannnn]

Wish they supported proper Markdown syntax, that would be awesome.

You should use Bear.

 

[tomnavratil]

You should use Bear.

Actually using Spaces as they had a lifetime subscription as a one-off price - https://spaceswriting.com/ as I don't think Bear's pricing makes sense to me to be honest.

 

[svish]

Will prove to be useful. Good improvement to the Notes app.

 

[PlayUltimate]

There are lots of things that I like about Apple Notes. And this just adds to the list. But the lack of a useable export makes it hard to use this for many things.

 

[Erpler]

Are there any changes to the Notes tables? If it had support for basic arithmetic it would make my life so much easier

 

[parkds]

Linking between notes…first thing that makes me think of is Hypercard from back in the day.

 

[JtheLemur]

Now if only they had lists of backlinks we’d be gold

 

[Randel.D]

Ready for the iOS 17 Tidbits article

 

[Reverend Beavis]

I would love to switch from Evernote to Notes, but the inability to change the created date is a deal breaker.

 

[addamas]

Will it work with shortcuts app? Or they forgot again?

Maybe one day I will use it over Trello which years ago showed middle finger to Single users and removed Trello Gold and new price is 2-3x this amount.
So I left it with Free and actually does not use it any more that frequently.

 

[spinedoc77]

I love Notes, but until they release an app for Windows, Android, etc it's kind of useless for me. Yeah I know I can go to iCloud.com, but that's a terribly poor solution. I'll stay with OneNote and Google Keep for now.

 

[scoony]

For those on the developer beta, it is possible to create a Calendar event from the Notes app or link to a note in the Calendar app?

 

[JosephAW]

If I remember correctly, way back FrameMaker was the publishing software to use to create links to other documents.

 

[SW3029]

Since VoodooPad hasn't been updated in YEARS, Notes might be a viable alternative as a personal wiki now.

 

[GraXXoR]

Since VoodooPad hasn't been updated in YEARS, Notes might be a viable alternative as a personal wiki now.

Came here to say that. Was a big fan of voodoopad many years ago.

 

[Max_G]

Check out UpNote. It's Apple Notes as it should be. There's a Reddit group too.