iPad All-in-One For Dummies, 7th Edition

Chapter 2

Making Notes

In This Chapter

Opening a blank note and entering text

Creating a new note

Finding, sharing, and deleting a note

Displaying the Notes List

Printing a note

Notes is a preinstalled app that you can use to do everything from jotting down notes at meetings to maintaining to-do lists. It isn’t a robust word processor like Apple Pages or Microsoft Word by any means, but for taking notes on the fly or dictating a poem using the Dictation feature (not available on the original iPad or iPad 2) while you sit and sip a cup of tea on your deck, it’s a useful option.

In this chapter, you discover how to enter and edit text in Notes and manage notes by navigating among them, searching for content, sharing, deleting, and printing them.

Making Notes

Notes are pretty simple to create — kind of like grabbing a sticky notepad, jotting down your thoughts, pulling off the note and sticking it somewhere, and starting to write the next one. You can even use Siri to create a note ...