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Thanks for watching! I try to film some for the phone and some for the computer. Soon, I will add some for the iPad. But because of the way I make videos, it's difficult to do BOTH iPhone and Computer in one video... however, I do appreciate the suggestion and will do my best to accommodate you!!!!

Yes, full screen mode is one of the banes of my existence because it eliminate so many tools. When you double click on a note and it opens into full screen mode, put your cursor, at the top left corner of your screen so that you see the red orange, orange and green buttons. Click the green button to exit full screen mode, and you will have the ability to resize that notes window. That will enable you to do what you’re trying to do. In the future, when things open into full screen (in any app) I recommend clicking the green button to resize them manually. Many people think the green button is necessary to to make a window larger, but it puts you into full screen mode, which doesn’t give you control. Instead, learn to manually resize windows by stretching them from the bottom left and bottom right corners to the size that you want If you want a window to fill the screen (without entering full screen mode) hold the option button down when you click the green button. Hopefully that helps… Full screen mode is one of the “features“ that I would fully disable if I had the ability… But I don’t.

@@TheMacWhisperer Thank you!

Thank you so so much! I appreciate it. Thanks for watching!

As long as you are on Sonoma (MacOS 14) you should see the same options. Create a new smart folder from the file menu and then click on the tag criteria you can choose additional options.

@@TheMacWhisperer Monterey: I'll try it on my newer M3 (Sonoma 14.5), just figured it should work on all of them the same. Thanks.

@@DorianGreer It won't work on Monterey.... it was a recently announced feature for Sonoma.

Thank YOU!!!! Appreciate you for watching!

Thank you so much 😀. The channel is growing thanks to people like you! Keep watching, there's lots more on the way!!!

Glad it was helpful! Thanks for watching!

Super smart! That totally works. I don’t like having too many smart folders or too many tags, but this is a great suggestion.

Awesome, it can be confusing because as usual Apple doesn’t name things in a very intuitive way, and doesn’t tell anybody how to use their software. Glad it helped, glad you found me, thanks for watching.

Great examples. I suggest a very simple standard file structure that generally includes: FAMILY, FRIENDS, WORK, PERSONAL, FINANCIAL, TRAVEL, TECH, HOMES and a few other basic categories that i recommend to all my clients!

So glad you got value! Any specific lesson you would like to share?

Hey B! Thanks as always for your support. Hope you got some good tidbits from this one! How's the weather? It was 100 degrees (F) yesterday... almost too hot for any shirt....

@@TheMacWhisperer hi Dylan. As a matter of fact I was just cleaning my notes right now. Your tips were spot on to taming of the notes all over the place. They were great. The weather has been off and on. Sunny mostly some rain at night. The temperature has been from 24 to 27 Celsius during the day dropping to 12, 14 and 16 at night. The real hot weather will not show up until July August. I will let you know as it develops. Thanks again Biagio Bisignano Take care 👕😎❤️👍

It's better to copy and paste rather than export it to a pdf. Pdf's don't always read well on the phone, and can't be edited or searched properly. I generally recommend opening the article into READER VIEW to eliminate most of the junk, and copy and paste from there. I also recommend against overloading notes with tons of attachments since they can really slow down the phone and the system. I have seen shortcuts that can do most of the heavy lifting on this, but I have never found one that works PERFECTLY. Let me know if you find one! Thanks again for watching!

❤️👍🤫 I thought that was a fun way to do it! Thanks for noticing!

Welcome! Thanks for checking it out! I hope you find other tidbits in my other videos! Let me know if there are any lessons you would like me to cover!

@@TheMacWhisperer I will say right now that I seem not find performance slow when embedding PDFS in notes. Seems slow in M2 pro iPad and my iPhone 13 Pro.

It depends on how many you embed. A handful is fine, but I have clients who imported hundreds and hundreds, and suddenly, things started crashing and not synching right. All things in moderation, I suppose.

Happy to help!

Awesome! Thanks for watching!!! Any specific tips that stood out for you?

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Yeah, I agree. We have adjusted that in all future videos, but it's reallly hard to change it after posting. I appreciate your comment!

Glad it was helpful. FYI, I teach a small group course monthly if you want to check it out. You can find more info here: www.themacwhisperer.com/tmw I am also available for one-on-one classes. Email me at dylan@themacwhisperer.com for more info.

Awesome!! Let me know how it goes!

Glad you got value!!! Thanks for watching!

That's fine. It works until it doesn't. At some point, when I was over 2K notes, it took longer to search than go to the folder. The more I rely on search, the less it provides the quick results I need. I have a basic motto: Sort, don't search. It works for me.

@@TheMacWhisperer I hear ya. I’m just so far gone at this point with the amount of notes that I have. For me to organize them all would be nuts!

Understood. Maybe it's time to do a little cleanup of some of the oldest ones using my shared tips. For me, it has been worth the investment since I am super impatient when I NEED to find something quickly (especially on my phone), and I LIVE and DIE by my notes and the speed with which I can find what I need.

As long as you are on iPadOS 17 or later it does. You click the three dots and select view as columns. In fact, they look GREAT on the iPad.

Yes, you can click twice on a tag in the tag section at the bottom left, then right-click and create a smart folder. Or when you create a Smart Folder and select tags, if you click on the tag selected, you can choose "include" or "exclude." Great question. I learned something new by exploring the answer. So thank you! Never occurred to me to even try that before.

Notes have been around for a VERY, VERY long time (since the first iPhone)... so it feels pretty entrenched into their ecosystem at this point. I also hope they keep it around! Thanks for watching!

Thanks for watching!!!!

You're welcome! Thanks for watching.

Yeah. Smart folders reside only in the top level notes folder. You can reorder them but can’t move to a subfolder

Unfortunately it wasn’t designed that way. Smart folders sit outside the other folders. Ideally you shouldn’t create too many of them. Usually you can get by with 3-5. More than that just tends to get cluttered. And don’t forget you can always edit a smart folder to change the search results on the fly. Plus, in my opinion since smart folders don’t actually move the notes they are a great way for temporary searches but not for long term sorting and organization.

I guess I’m a little confused as to why you would want to do that. It’s not really the way notes is set up, but you should be able to copy and paste (or drag) any file from your phone or computer directly into a note. I am curious why you would want to email it… I know that’s something that Evernote and other web-based apps used to do, but it’s not the fashion anymore. It’s so easy to just add anything directly to notes without hassling with email in the first place. Please let me know if you need more Clarity about how to add files.

@@TheMacWhisperer I send an email with two files attached to several people. I want to automatically place hose files in Notrs. That would be the most efficient way store things appropriately.

You can drag and drop an email into a note but this just creates a link to the email. To get copies of the attached files into a note you can open the email, press and hold the attached file, and either drag it to a note or use the share sheet to save a copy to a note

Like the other comments said, it might be best to share to Notes or drag and drop those two files rather than email it to the note if you want to actually access the attachments later.

Are the two people you are sending the info to on Apple? If so, you could avoid email altogether and just put the files natively (not as an attachment, if possible) into Notes and share the Notes folder with both of them, then everyone has it native in one place. I am holding my breath until the use of email finally dies. If I can avoid sending an email, I always do (text is my first line of defense, especially if people are on Apple products, but Notes works really well, too, for my team!)

Thanks for the subscription!! Glad to have you aboard.

Absolutely my pleasure! Thanks for watching!

What device are you having the issue with? And are you using it through iCloud or through a different service?

@@TheMacWhisperer Thank you so much. I have iPhone 11 and mcbook pro ( Sonoma) bought 2 years ago.

problem is with iPhone reminders.

Do you have it turned on through iCloud? And is that where it turns off? You can find out by going to settings, Reminders, and accounts. If possible, only use iCloud for reminders, and I bet that issue will solve itself.

@@TheMacWhisperer. Thank you very much. I am truly grateful that your help resolved the issue.

Amazing, I’m always thrilled to share something that can make a difference or make something easier for someone. Keeping track of Zoom links, shopping lists, and more is a great way to keep things simple. And thanks for all the great compliments! You my friend are amazing as well!

Absolutely, the best way to go from an old phone to a new phone (and to protect your existing data is to sync everything up with iCloud (even if that means you need to upgrade to a higher storage level level). I’ve seen people avoid iCloud to devastating results… Lost contacts, lost photos, lost information. We never know when somethings going to happen to our phone or devices so synchronizing it with something as easy and built-in as iCloud is a power tip. And yes, it’s the easiest and fastest way to upgrade your phone Whenever you purchase a new one.

A stupid editing glitch. I’m going to look into what I can do to fix it tomorrow morning. I may be stuck with it for this video unless I want to re-upload the whole thing.

I gave up on things a decade ago. They just didn’t integrate well enough with Siri and that’s reminders biggest bonus. It’s worth the switch. I never ever consider going back and I was on things from version 1.

You can add you Microsoft account and sync reminders, they’ll just show up there and you can manage them from here moving forward, maybe move them to an iCloud synced list and disable the reminders sync to clean things up, but absolutely doable! 😊

@Zehph has a great suggestion. You should be able to sync them into reminders and then move them over. Unfortunately, there is no easy way to import them other than that, so hopefully that will work for you... otherwise, I hope you are really good at copy/paste....

That is a perfect solution! Thanks @zehph

Great job! Glad it was helpful!

I manually created those lists to separate urgent matters (this week) from things that need to happen but are not immediate or time-sensitive (This Month), from things that would be nice but are non-essential and sometimes just long-term wishes/dreams (Someday). The "This Week" list used to be called "Today," but then Apple created an Automatic List named Today, so I had to rename it. I go through the "This Week" list daily. It is also my default list, so whenever I create a new reminder (without specifying a specific list), it goes there, and I file it when I go through that list each morning. When I go through it, I move things to other lists (including the "This Month" and "Someday" lists, as well as lists like my "To Purchase" or "Date Night." At the end of each month, I audit the "This Month" list and remove or reassign anything that no longer fits. I go through the "This Month" list about once every week or two (when I have time) and try to knock things off that list. I check the Someday list sporadically. It's a bunch of "Nice Ideas," but most of them will have to wait until there is enough bandwidth for them. Things like a few of the books I want to write, or the new courses I want to create... Hope that helps!!!!

Unfortunately, there is no way to do that... yet. Hopefully iOS 18 will help, but I kind of doubt it. You can leave feedback for Apple on this topic here: www.apple.com/feedback/ (which I have also done)> Apple cares about feedback but doesn't always prioritize it.

@@TheMacWhisperer Thanks for taking your time to reply! I too could not find anyway to do it. So I just had to create a folder, then drag & drop them to AI folder. 😋

Thank you for the feedback. For reference, there is no script... if there was, I could be much more concise. I have improved over the years of doing this, so your feedback will help me improve even more. Thanks for watching!

Thank you very much. I am truly grateful that your help resolved the issue.

You can do it! Just takes time and focus!!! Thanks for watching!

Glad it was helpful!

Awesome! Thanks for watching!

Awesome. That's a good way to manage things.

You just answered ... only works on Sonoma