r/AppleNotesGang

I'm fairly new to Apple Notes. I have imported thousands of notes into the program. Each note has a carefully selected title. My previous notes-type program allowed me to click in the title column and quickly type-in the first word of a title and I'd instantly be taken to the note with that title. Apple's Notes sort of has this feature...but it doesn't always work. Why? What is the secret to reliably navigating to the note one wants by typing-in its title?

So, I use the notes app on my iPhone just like everyone else does. I have a bit of a writing habit and wrote down some poetry one day but for reasons beyond my capabilities of answering rn, I decided to lock the notes🤦‍♀️. I forgot the password that I had used back then and can’t for the life of me figure it out. Is there ANY way I can unlock the notes without remembering the password??

Am I doomed or is there any way to retrieve it?

Hi everyone

Looking for people who created a good ecosystem / links to work with both Apple Notes, iCloud and Claude (especially Cowork)

If you have any idea, thank you 🙏🏻

I want to explain it here so everyone has good sync. It has been quick and flawless for me since i followed these steps!

1. Backup your notes. You can easily do this on mac, on iPad it is fairly easy just file > export as markdown. iPhone and iPad you can also select multiple notes with your finger, while keeping your finger on the screen open the files app and drop them into a folder. They will save as an rtf file.

2. Go to Settings > your name at the top > iCloud > Notes > toggle it off

3. In the same place press "Delete notes from iCloud"

NOTE THIS IS WHY I SAID TO BACKUP IN STEP 1, nothing will restore cause step 3 deletes them.

4. reboot your device

5. Follow these same steps above on every device before continuing.

6. Go back to iCloud Notes in step 2 and toggle it back on.

DONE!

You can now restore your notes that you backed up or start from scratch.

I started from scratch to ensure the issue wouldn't happen again.

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Yes I hate that i had to do this. No i should not have had to. I am just glad it works now though.

So I’m starting school in a few weeks, and starting to buy school supplies.
Now here’s the thing, I’m trying to decide if I need to buy notebooks, (I know it sounds stupid) or if I should use my iPad. I have an iPad Air, 11, with 256 GB, with the Apple Pencil Pro,
I’m an artist, so I have a bunch of different apps (pro creat, pintrest, acc) and after trying a few apps, the “Good notes” app was great for me. Now I’m in I dilemma, cuz using my iPad would save my back, and space in my locker and bag, but I’m worried about storage, battery, and just In general if it’s a good idea to keep all of my notes on my iPad, or just use normal notebooks, don’t think I need to explain notebooks.
Thank you for your help ❤️

I use Apple Notes a lot, whether for every day use or in college. When I am writing Notes for lectures, I have so many different web links, calendar links, pdf and ppt documents, voice memos, videos and images. Between all those files I also have many writings and drawings made with Apple Pencil.

As of today I have over 1000 Notes, taking up approximately 70 gb of memory. So naturally I wanted to export some Notes that are not relevant anymore. When I exported a Note to Files, I got a single folder containing all other documents that were in that Note. The drawing are converted into pdfs or images (if I am not mistaken).

The problem comes when I want to import the Note back into the app. There is no order among documents as it was before the export and Note looses the whole structure. My drawings are either shown as pdfs or images.

So I was wondering is there any way to export the Note while keeping its original format for further use in the app. I have asked Gemini for an advice. Solution was to copy “Library/Group Containers group.com.apple.notes” onto an external drive.

I am also sorry if the post is too long or if I have broken the community rules in any way. It is just that this problem has been bothering me for years.

Starting to prepare for the school year, and need help.
So I have an iPad with The pencil pro, and wanna use it to take notes in class, the notes app is shit, and no app that I tried was any better. So if you have a free nice little app that you know of, I will appreciate the help 🙏.
Thanks

My Apple Notes page using safari

Hi so I would like to type Apple Notes inside Safari groups to not lose my thought process, but as you can see its distracting to have other notes and folders shown also

Often times when I try to copy/paste something into Apple Notes, the clipboard pastes something other than what I've copied. This has happened repeatedly over the long term. Quitting Notes and relaunching always fixes it but it often happens again within a day or two.

This doesn't happen in any other apps. I'm not using any clipboard managers or apps. I reboot my apps and computer regularly. I don't remember if it happens on my desktop as well as my laptop but def on my laptop.

Anybody else experience this or have recommendations? I've poked around but haven't found any solutions.

Thanks.

M5 Macbook Air

MacOS 26.5.1