Quick Notes

Alex-de-Witte

I am looking for a option in which the daily I take are collected on one place so that I once a day or once a week can decide if I want them to be nested in a Smart Folder or that I can delete them but or my system has a malfunction (very busy with the forever setup) or it doesn't work.

I want in the ✱ Home a solution (link/map or something I didn't think about :-) ) where I can review mij notes and take action from there.

Anyone a great solution

joaoalm

Alex-de-Witte

Regarding how you save your notes to later review them, I see some options:

always create a quick note: the notes will be there until you move them
create a shortcut with the action “Create a Note”. This gives you 2 options that a quick note doesn’t have:
a) you could specify a (dumb) folder, where all notes created using this shortcut are stored
b) alternatively manually type a tag after inputting the content: on the action’s options (the > symbol within a circle after “folder) you can activate Open When Run; this means the note open on Apple Notes and there you can add a tag as usual

On the ✱ Home note you can create a link to a folder or Smart Folder using shortcuts - I described it here.

Martijn

What about adding a tag like '#review' to it, and then make smart folder that checks for that tag? When you want to save it you just remove the "#review" tag.

Alex-de-Witte

Thnx Martijn for the quick response. But if you make a note (sharing from ….) it is not possible to ad a #tag so far I know and that means double work and that is not what this is al about.

But maybe I need to change some settings to make it work

mettlerr

I just checked. While you can add #something to the note title, Apple Notes does not convert that to a tag when creating the new note from a share sheet. You have to go in there and add a space after the #something to make it a (yellow) tag. At least on my Mac.

But you can choose which folder to put the new note in on the share sheet. How about making a folder "To Review" and putting the notes primarily in there until you have reviewed them?

tvillemw

I made two smart folders, one for notes created today and one for notes created this week. They pick up my quick notes.

Alex-de-Witte

tvillemw

Can you share how you did this because I can’t see my quick notes to share with any (smart)map.

Yes I created a few quick notes

Thank you

Alex-de-Witte

So it should be possible to assign a map in which al my notes where dumbed no matter from where the come?

mettlerr

Alex-de-Witte it does not seem possible at the moment to define a default folder in the Apple Notes settings, no. You will have to choose it every time when creating a new note with the share sheet.

If you can live with one big note containing all the new informations you want to note down, you can always add to an existing note instead of creating a new one.

Alex-de-Witte

So we (I) have to think about a workaround.

I was using my standard Note map as “the incoming notes map”. But not sure if this is still possible with Matthias his setup (which I like). So back to the drawing board.

For now I will use the #review and a Smart Folder thnx for the tip.

mettlerr

Alex-de-Witte Final idea: I think something could be setup using the Shortcuts app, which takes the input it is given (for example through the share sheet) and then posts it in a specific format into a note in a specific place. Then you would be able to totally customize what should be done with the input you are giving the shortcut through the share sheet.

tvillemw

Alex-de-Witte

My Smart Folder filters on the created date. I named it 'Today'. It picks up everything I created today.

Maybe we're talking about different things. What do you mean by 'sharing from'?

jimbo

I created a folder called Inbox and all of the incoming notes that need proceessing there. It's a little crude but it's simple to use.

Alex-de-Witte

joaoalm

thank you I am gonna play with it