Inside iOS 9: Notes Gains Checklists, Photos, Sketches and More

[MacRumors]

Apple has made the Notes app a lot more useful on iOS 9 by integrating it with several other stock apps, including Photos, Mail, Maps and Safari. In addition to traditional note-taking, users can now create checklists, draw sketches and insert photos, videos, links, maps, Pages documents and other attachments into notes.

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Checklists

You can now create a checklist in the Notes app by selecting lines of text and tapping on the checkmark button above the keyboard. Each list item will then have a circular bullet next to that can be marked as completed, which is convenient for grocery lists, wish lists, to-do lists and so forth.

Apple has also added formatting options in Notes for adjusting the size and weight of text, including Heading, Body, Checklist, Bulleted List and Dashed Line. Anyone that has ever used text formatting in Pages, Microsoft Word or virtually any other word processing program should be familiar with this feature.

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[Apple Knowledge Navigator]

Bye Evernote!

 

[JCrz]

Checklist item #1: Fix watchOS 2 bug.

 

[JonneyGee]

Notes in iOS 9 is nice, but it needs Evernote's organizational features to really compete. Notebooks and tags, please!

 

[sniffies]

But will it sync with 10.10?

 

[perkedel]

Anyone know if the App Store now cannot be launched by some website? That "feature" is the most annoying.

 

[pdaholic]

Notes in iOS 9 is nice, but it needs Evernote's organizational features to really compete. Notebooks and tags, please!

Or at least some way to sort the notes by some method other than most recently used, e.g. Alphabetical. That was once an option on the Mac app, but it's gone in El Cap. If I have more than 20 notes it becomes a jumbled mess trying to scroll to find the one I want. Guess I'll be sticking with Evernote.

So close, Apple!

 

[Jessica Lares]

Give us smart folders like iTunes and Photos. That’d be great.

 

[rockosmodurnlif]

But will it sync with 10.10?

Very important question. El Cap isn't out now. I don't want problems w/ my notes if it isn't.

 

[brucerb]

Do you still need Notes linked to an email account to sync across icloud? Thought I had heard they were getting rid of that requirement.

 

[KagatoAlpha]

But will it sync with 10.10?

Looks like iOS 9 and 10.11 are required for the new Notes features...

 

[Munky]

I would love if they found a way to integrate "Notes" and "Reminders" into one app. I'd love to make a grocery list for my wife and be able to attach a photo to one of the things in the list that I specifically needed.

 

[Jessica Lares]

I really love how easy it is to copy a sketch, paste it again and then add to it.

 

[jrlcopy]

Very important question. El Cap isn't out now. I don't want problems w/ my notes if it isn't.

Yeah... wtf... Can't use icloud notes until El Capitan is released, I bet they were trying to release both OS's on the same day originally. This is really annoying.

 

[jmantn]

Or at least some way to sort the notes by some method other than most recently used, e.g. Alphabetical. That was once an option on the Mac app, but it's gone in El Cap. If I have more than 20 notes it becomes a jumbled mess trying to scroll to find the one I want. Guess I'll be sticking with Evernote.

So close, Apple!

you're able to sort notes into folders in iOS 9 and EL Capitan. As far as tags go, I find that searching within Notes Finds everything I need. For further context I have 1,048 notes and I've been wearing out the new notes and the share sheet to notes functionality for months and I honestly couldn't go back to the system prior to now.

 

[Glassed Silver]

Yeah... wtf... Can't use icloud notes until El Capitan is released, I bet they were trying to release both OS's on the same day originally. This is really annoying.

I don't think they intended that.
Last year iOS and OS X were one month apart.

Glassed Silver:mac

 

[charlituna]

merge voice memos into Notes and ditch the separate app

 

[pdaholic]

you're able to sort notes into folders in iOS 9 and EL Capitan. As far as tags go, I find that searching within Notes Finds everything I need. For further context I have 1,048 notes and I've been wearing out the new notes and the share sheet to notes functionality for months and I honestly couldn't go back to the system prior to now.

Yeah I do know about the folders, and I appreciate the fact that you use the search feature to find your notes. I'm just used to opening the app, and quickly scrolling to where I know the note is located. I'll give the search option a try, but my OCD just wants my notes to show up in the same place every time I open the app, and not change order based on when I opened a note last.

Edit: okay you're totally right, the search option makes it a lot less annoying. I do prefer apple notes to Evernote because of the offline access. Thanks for the suggestion.

 

[pdaholic]

Oh and while I've got my whine machine running, those ant-aliased fonts look blurry as hell to me against the background color Apple chose.

 

[mabhatter]

Bye Evernote!

That layout isn't familiar at all? They Sherlocked Paper and Pencil by FiftyThree this week.

 

[dysamoria]

I see they still haven't fixed the worst usability problem yet: the text (font and color choices).

Seriously, Jony Ive, did you not do ANY readability research at all? YELLOW text on a WHITE background??

Add to that, the continued use of text as "buttons". Screw flat design and every one of its mindless supporters screaming "clean!!!!!"

 

[merlinw]

Like it however, the text does seem blurry on my iPad Air 1, anyway to change the font?
And like others have said, merge the voice recording app into notes.

 

[gadgets1990]

Am I missing something or is the sketch feature not available on the iPad mini 1st gen? If so that's really unfortunate.

 

[abbstrack]

Am I missing something or is the sketch feature not available on the iPad mini 1st gen? If so that's really unfortunate.

Same for my iPad 3rd Gen. Weird because the 'Paper' app works just fine on my iPad, so it's not a hardware issue.

 

[Rosyv]

Am I missing something or is the sketch feature not available on the iPad mini 1st gen? If so that's really unfortunate.

Mine too, no sketch tools.