OS X Yosemite: The Missing Manual

Notes

The Notes app, a clone of the one on the iPhone/iPad, lets you jot down lists, recipes, driving directions, and brainstorms—and they all sync effortlessly among your Apple phones, tablets, and other computers. It’s lost its yellow-lined-paper look but, at heart, it’s the same old Notes.

To create a new page of notes, choose File→New Note (⌘-N), or click the button at top left. Once the new page appears, type away (Figure 11-21).

Tip

Notes works with Handoff (Handoff). So if you’re editing a note on your Mac, iPhone, or iPad, you’ll be offered the chance to jump to the same note on any other Mac, iPhone, or iPad you own (if it’s on the same WiFi network).

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You can dress up your Mac’s Notes pages far more elaborately than you can on the iPhone. For example:

• You have control over fonts, type sizes, colors, paragraph alignment, and indentation, using the commands in the Format menu. Notes can even create automatic bulleted, dashed, or numbered lists; check out the Format→Lists submenus.

• You can paste or drag photos and other graphics into your notes, too—or even documents, like PDF files, Word documents, or Excel spreadsheets. Drag such a document into a note from the desktop; there it becomes an icon that you can double-click to open later.

• You can drag or paste a link into a note. Later, when you click it, it opens into the corresponding Web site.

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