Your iPhone is packed with helpful features — including live voicemail transcription, voice isolation for calls and the option to view all your Wi-Fi passwords — and Apple’s Notes app is no exception. It’s one of the most powerful note-taking tools in the mobile world. You can use it for shopping lists, on-the-fly reminders and jotting down any other important tidbits you can think of.
There are an abundance of ways to use the Notes app to track everything in your life. But if you’ve been using it for a long time, there’s a good chance you’ve built up a large collection of notes, which can make it tricky to track down the notes you actually need on a regular basis.
One of the handiest solutions came in the form of tags, which were added to iOS 15 in 2021.
Tags, which are similar to the hashtags used on social media sites such as Instagram or TikTok, can be added anywhere on a note, including the title. You can add them at any time, even retroactively. You can also organize your notes into regular folders, but that requires a bit of forward planning and thought work.
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To add a tag to a note, type # then enter a new tag name and press the space bar. You can also choose an existing tag by typing # and selecting the tag you want. The suggestions will appear above your keyboard, where autocorrections usually are.
Three tags I regularly use are the #recipe, #grocerylist and #receipt tags. When I tap on the #recipe tag, Notes will pull up a collection of recipes I’ve tagged irrespective of the folder they’re stored in. I’ll hit up my #grocerylist tag, which will serve up all my previous grocery lists, when it’s time for me to restock. And I’ll refer to my #receipt tag, which brings up tagged receipts, when I’m reconciling expenses against my credit card statement.
Tags don’t need to be one continuous word, but they can’t contain spaces. You can use hyphens, numbers and underscores — for…
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