#MAC NOTEPAD TO IPAD MAC#
The first is biometric, in the form of either TouchID on my Mac or FaceID on my iPhone. There are, essentially, two layers of security for Apple Notes. That’s the one area for me where it falls down a little it feels far more tuned to drawing than note-taking with the Pencil, which is why I still use GoodNotes for the rare occasions I physically write on my iPad. It may also surprise you to hear that I don’t use Notes with the Apple Pencil. I know you can dictate via Siri, export notes as PDFs and scan documents, but that’s beyond my use case. I can add tables, checklists, images and, if I want, share notes with others. But my notes are nearly always plain text I just need somewhere to bash in a few words I’m not after Microsoft Word’s endless ribbon menus to turn my notes into works of art. It deals with copy and paste formatting pretty well, too.
It took Apple rather too long to improve this, but they have done exactly that.įor me, you can format notes just enough, and the fact it automatically creates a heading at the top of the note is both aesthetically pleasing, and a time saver.
One of the main reasons I used to give Notes a wide birth was because of the limited formatting options. Notes enables me to immediately dive in and use it, and that’s exactly how fleeting this sort of app should be during your day. This isn’t unique to Notes, but it is well implemented. I can also pin the notes I need to refer to regularly (YouTube video description templates, brand colour HEX codes – that kinda thing). It works, immediately, every single time. I’ve never had a note disappear, conflict with another version or fail to sync entirely. ICloud had its issues with syncing at launch, but they appear to have been largely ironed out. It’s even accessible on most web browsers via the web version of iCloud. Notes uses iCloud to sync everything between pretty much any Apple laptop, desktop computer or handheld device you have, and it’s the best I’ve found at doing so. It’s easy to poke fun at some of Apple’s apps for being too dumbed-down, but when it comes to notes, I think that’s exactly the right approach. Part of the issue I had with Evernote was that the more capable it became, the harder it was to navigate. The majority of controls are nestled neatly at the top of the screen, and they’re all pretty self-explanatory. It’s why I recently switched back to Things from Omnifocus for to-do list duties.Īpple Notes consists of a pane on the left for your folders, the contents of the selected folder to the right, followed by the note itself. I love white space, limited controls and clear affordance. I needed something simpler, which is why I inadvertently found myself increasingly reaching for Apple Notes. I have nothing against Evernote – it’s a wonderful app. And before you tell me off for not supporting third-party developers, I did pay for Evernote for a good two years – just for the device syncing.
#MAC NOTEPAD TO IPAD OFFLINE#
You also can’t access notes offline unless you pay that monthly fee, which is an odd piece of feature-crippling, in my book. Annotating PDFs, searching for text inside Office docs, customisable templates and a 10GB monthly upload limit doesn’t excite me. At £4.99 per month, it isn’t going to break the bank, but in the new world of low-cost software, it isn’t cheap, either.
#MAC NOTEPAD TO IPAD FREE#
The problem with Evernote’s pricing is that the paid step-up from the free plan only includes one thing I’m interested in: syncing across unlimited devices (you can only sync two on their free tier, which isn’t enough for me). I love paying third-party developers for their apps, but they need to give me a reason to do so (ahem, Notion). It has been developed past the point of a simple note-taking platform, in my opinion, and felt more cumbersome for my needs with every release. Unless you’re particularly organised with your notes and want the ability to categorise, tag and file them to the nth degree, Evernote is absolute overkill.
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