Switching to the Mac: The Missing Manual, Yosemite Edition

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 19-20).

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).

Figure 19-20. The first line of each page becomes the name of that note, as represented in the searchable list of notes (center column). In this illustration, somebody has also opened up the Folders list, the skinny column at far left. Here you can choose which account’s notes you want to see: your iCloud notes, Gmail, Exchange, or what have you.

Interior Design

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, ...