r/AppleNotesGang

I’ve basically made a bunch of pointless notes over the years and I want to get rid of them and start from zero. Is there a way to reset the app to basically day one? As if I just opened up Notes for the first time and it walks me through the features and everything?

Is there an easy way to have Apple Notes create a Daily Note view on opening?

Hi everyone, just checking how are you all naming your apple notes’ smart list folder?

Any restriction in terms of characters, symbols or emoji ?

Thats insane or am I missing something?

Edit: for iOS

I have not yet forced a re-sync of everything by toggling notes off iCloud, I just wanted to see if it's possible to fix without doing that yet. I updated my iOS a few weeks ago for the first time in...years, probably. I was on some version of iOS 16. I don't think the new iOS should be related to Notes, but the problem didn't exist before that. I have one long note that I use for meal planning. It has no special formatting (tables, checkmarks, fonts), it's just a long list of each day. Since my last iOS update, when I make a change on my computer, it only partially updates on my phone. So for example if I write:

Monday
B: meal A
L: meal B
D: meal C

and then decide to delete and rewrite dinner on Monday to meal D on my computer, on my phone it will now say:

Monday
B: meal A
L: meal B
D: meal Dmeal C

This is not happening with ANY other notes. I have copy/pasted the text into a new note multiple times, deleting the original, but it keeps happening. I also started a brand-new note recently, and it happens there too. These meal plan notes are often at least 6 weeks or 2 months long, so it could be related to the note length (even though this problem never happened in the past), but it's not a lot of actual text, certainly not 10,000 words. If I make the change on my phone, it syncs normally on my computer, just not in reverse.

Has anyone seen this odd behavior before? It's very obvious when this error happens since I have it written out like this example, but what I really worry about is that I also make long work-related notes when I am on research trips, which are more rambly and unformatted and I might not spot weird errors when I make edits partway through.

For the past few months, various Apple Notes that I delete, tend to return automatically. Apple Support has no idea why this is happening, or how to fix it.

To add, I feel I am missing data from certain Notes. I notice this when I go to search for a particular item, knowing full well I saved it in Apple Notes.

I've been researching OneNote, and at this stage, having lost a little faith in Apple Notes, it may be time for me to fully move to OneNote.

All of this is a shame really, as I love the simplicity of Apple Notes. UGH!

/rant /vent

Has anyone credited an estate planning template and perhaps a home hub template to make it easier for a survivor to take over everything and have a single location of where to find all the important information?

Things like insurance policies, wills, powers of attorney, name and contact info for lawyer, accountant, executor or trustee etc?

Any suggestions would be appreciated.

I can select multiple tags on the Mac, but when I try to do the same in the iOS app, I can only select one tag at a time.

The obvious workaround is to set up the Smart folder for the Smart folder for just two tags seems a bit of an overkill. I use smart folders for more complex searches.

Is there any work around? Am I missing something obvious?

I keep trying to stick with Apple Notes, but 3 of the biggest annoyances luring me to consider other note/PKM apps...

1. Can't expand the left folder list column enough (to be able to see the full folder names)

2. No versioning (to recover from accidents or reverts)

3. ONLY 5 FOLDER LEVELS ALLOWED!

#3 is very limiting and nearing deal-breaker levels for me. I frequently need more than 5 folder levels. Here's a stripped down example folder structure I want; it's 7 levels deep...

1. Business

2. Customers

3. Customer A

4. Projects

5. Project A

6. Scripts

7. Production

How are others handling this limitation?

So my gf recently synced her notes on ipad with icloud and somehow all her notes that were stored on her iPad vanished. Apple store told us bad luck and there’s nothing we can do, but i‘m certain there must be some kind of trash where you can restore them or something? Any advice is greatly appreciated!

Hoping someone might have a solution:

I include tables in many of my Apple Notes and am looking for a feature to be able to resize the cell column width that is created.

Both on the original creation of the base table, and when inserting additional columns or rows, the size of each cell is coming out FIXED.

Sorry if this has been asked before.