Smart Folders are a great way to bring relevant notes together. Once you’ve assigned a couple of tags, you’ll see them pop up in a new Tags cloud at the bottom of the left hand column in the app. The big limitation is that these tags don’t proliferate across other applications, so a Note won’t be discoverable in a smart folder on your Mac or in Files on iPhone - just in Notes. This report might be tagged as #usefulnotestips, once saved into Notes, for example. You can assign multiple tags to each Note, which is what makes smart folders useful, as these can curate items from different folders and on varying topics. These sync across iCloud and give you another way to search for items, and a powerful way to bring relevant notes from across different topics together into smart searches. Starting in iOS/iPad OS 15 and macOS Monterey, you can assign color-coded tags to every Note you make. Alternatively, just place your iPhone in landscape view and you’ll also see this view. Or choose View>Attachments Browser on a Mac. To see all of your attachments in one visual gallery, tap the ellipsis icon on iOS/iPad and select View Attachments.
But if your Notes is like mine and has become a minefield of poorly ordered jottings in no particular order - with a few pinned to the top and an item somewhere at the bottom market "Resolution 2012: Stop procrastination" - you’ll need this tip: Attachments view. I love that you can use tags, folders, titles, and images to make Notes stand out. To get to Gallery view on Mac: In Notes just tap the four-square icon above the second column or use View>As Gallery from the application Menu. To access Gallery view on iPhone/iPad: Either tap the three-dot ellipsis icon and select View Gallery or turn your device into landscape view to invoke this view automatically.
You’ll see any image taken from the top of the Note and the first few words of the text. That’s why I so often neglect to make use of Gallery view, which is a more visual way to find Notes. I live in list views in all my applications because it’s a good way to stay on top of multiple topics at once. Here are some of the things you can do with it that may help you keep ahead of the zillion tasks you suddenly face as 2021 winds down (and the COVID-19 pandemic rolls on).
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