The iPhone's built-in transcript app already has memos and boundless, so why launch a relatively limited and single recording app? It is the "Notes", a paperless diary given to users by IPhone, and has been well received by users, and has gradually become one of the apps that users can't do without.
In terms of function, transcription, attachment editing, and document layout are not as good as "memos" and "freeform", so what is its charm and can firmly grasp the needs of users?
Since it is a "diary", it must be private enough, a personal diary can not be read casually, it is exclusive to you, "notes" just meet your needs, and it is also the original intention of Apple to provide users, the purpose is to give you an electronic diary to replace paper diaries, friends who like to write diaries, you are blessed.
1. The unique characteristics of "notes".
"Notes" can add photos, sounds, locations, videos, however, all attachments in the diary cannot be shared, nor can they be saved to the local album;
- The typesetting of the notebook cannot customize the insertion point, and all attachments will be displayed at the beginning of the diary;
- You can turn on Touch ID or Face ID for "Notes" to protect personal privacy to the greatest extent;
- IPhone automatically learns through user habits, which can remind you to write a diary regularly, and will also humanize the summary of the day's IPhone usage process, prompting users to record which wonderful moments and which good memories to record.
- "Notes" does not have an index function, and you can only swipe your phone to find the diary slowly, just like opening a paper diary.
2. Necessary settings before the use of "Notes".
1. Turn on iCloud syncing
Turn on iCloud sync, you can keep your private diary with your Apple ID forever, as long as the Apple device is there, your diary will never drop, "Settings" / your avatar / "iCloud" / "Show All", turn on "Notes" sync.
2. Turn on whether to save photos to albums
Photos and videos cannot be shared, not even saved to an album, but you can set whether the photos are saved to the album at the same time when you take a photo in Notes.
[Settings]/[Notes]/Save to photos, open it will save it at the same time, turn it off will not save it, set it according to your needs.
3. "Notes Suggestion" setting
"Notes Suggestions" means that IPhone summarizes some content that needs to be recorded from the records of calling, texting, listening to music, watching videos, and frequently visited locations according to the user's usage records, and pushes it to the user, providing some inspiration for the user to write a diary.
"Settings"/[Privacy and Security]/[Notes Suggestions], you can set the user data pulled by "Notes" by yourself.
4. Skip the "Notes Suggestion"
Of course, we can also set the suggestion of skipping the system, create a new blank note by ourselves, [Settings]/[Notes]/"Skip Notes Suggestion", close it, and we will directly create a blank note in the future.
5. Lock the "note".
Since it's private, you can't just show it to the second person, you can put a lock on the "handbook" here, but it should be noted that the password here can't be set with a separate password, it's the same as your lock screen password, it seems a bit chicken.
[Settings]/[Notes]/[Lock Notes], you can set the time to turn on the lock, and you can set whether to turn on the lock.
3. Use "handwriting" to keep a diary
1. Create a new diary
After doing the previous settings, we can start writing a diary, the "Notes" App is very simple, there are not many bells and whistles, open the "Notes" App, here are some "Notes Suggestions", you can create a new diary directly according to the suggestions, if the suggestions do not meet your needs, then click directly on the top of the "New", open a blank note.
2. Add attachments
In the blank note, click on the icon below to insert photos, videos, and locations, as well as system suggestions, and shoot in real time if you don't need to extract existing photos.
It should be noted that the system's suggestions are very user-friendly, for example, myself, there is a piece of music in the system suggestions that I have been listening to a lot recently, and it is okay to write it into a diary according to the suggestions.
[Conclusion] "Notes" is not notes, if friends want to take notes on life and work, then don't use it, because its function is very simple, but to write a diary, and it is a very private diary, then it must be "notes".