iPad For Seniors For Dummies, 11th Edition

Chapter 19

Making Notes

IN THIS CHAPTER

Create notes

Copy and paste

Insert pictures

Add drawings and text styles

Create checklists

Delete notes

Notes is the app that you can use to do everything from jotting down notes at meetings to keeping to-do lists. It isn’t (yet) a robust word processor (such as Apple Pages or Microsoft Word), but for taking notes on the fly, jotting down shopping lists, or writing a few pages of your novel-in-progress while you sit and sip a cup of coffee on your deck, it’s a useful option.

In this chapter, you see how to enter and edit text in Notes and how to manage those notes by navigating among them, searching for content, or sharing or deleting them. I also help you explore the shortcut menu that allows you to create bulleted checklists, add pictures and drawings to notes, and apply styles to text in a note. A great feature of Notes is the ability to ...