Keep Track of What’s Important with Quick Notes on Your iPad and Mac
One of the unsung new productivity features in iPadOS 15 is Quick Notes. Not only does this let you jot down notes way more quickly than before (hence the name), but it’s also designed to let you link right into what’s important in your favourite apps.
For instance, if you call up a Quick Note while browsing in Safari, you’ll be able to quickly add a link to whatever web page you’re currently viewing. Or if you’re reading an email and want to remember it for later, simply pull up Quick Notes from the Mail app and you’ll be ready to drop a link into that message.
- You can pull up a Quick Note by swiping up from the bottom-right corner on your iPad or Mac.
- You can also use the keyboard shortcut Fn/Globe-Q, assuming your iPad keyboard has the appropriate modifier key available.
Following the release of iPadOS 15 and macOS 12 Monterey, all the usual popular third-party developers are also baking in Quick Notes support, letting you link right back to a task list in Things, a writing sheet in Ulysses, or an email message in Spark.
While the iPhone sadly doesn’t offer the ability to create Quick Notes, they will be synced via iCloud, so you’ll be able to see them and edit them on your iPhone. The drag-and-drop trick we mentioned earlier also works on the iPhone for adding links to notes, although it’s not nearly as quick as simply tapping the icon on your iPad or Mac to see a list of available links.