Create Quick Notes on the Mac

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In this video, we’re going to take a look at how we can create quick notes on the Mac. With quick notes, what we’re able to do is easily create a note without leaving the current app that we’re on. This was introduced with Mac OS Monterrey. Now throughout the tutorial, I mentioned a few different ways to create a quick note, one way is by moving your cursor to the lower right hand corner, as you’ll see, but another way that I mentioned is by using the globe key along with the Q key. Well, if you have an older Mac, you do not have a globe key, this is the key that’s in the lower left hand corner of your keyboard. So what do you do? Well, you can use the function key. So when I talked about using the globe key, if you do not have the globe key, you can use your function key.

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So let’s take a look at how we create quick notes on the Mac. Now with quick notes, as I mentioned in the introduction, what we can do is create a quick note from within any app. Let’s go and open up my calendar app, what I would like to do is create a note A quick note, I don’t want to open up the Notes app, I just want to create a new note. And then I want to get back to my calendar, maybe something came into my mind, this is where quick notes come into play. Now there are a few different ways to do this. One way is by using the globe key on your keyboard, and then the Q key. So it’s the globe key and Q key at the same time. When I do that, what we have is a new note. And then from here, I can jot down my thoughts. So I’m just going to type in here, my thoughts. And I close it, I can go back to my calendar. So again, I did not have to have my notes app open. Let’s say I wanted to add something to that note. By default, when you create a quick note, what it’ll do is it’ll open up the last quick note. So I’m going to go with the globe key in the Q key again. And you can see it opened up my last note, I can go and add more items to it. I can also open up that note or open up a quick note by going to the lower right hand corner of my display. So if I move my cursor down to the lower right hand corner here, and then I move it all the way over to the edge, watch what happens, you’re going to see a little note peak there. That is my note my quick note, all I have to do is just click on it.

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And you’re going to see my note there.

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Again, what it does is it opens up the last note that you had. Now if you wanted to always open up a new note, every time you create a quick note, it’s going to be a new Quick note. What you’ll do is open up the Notes app here. And then you need to go to your preferences. So I go up to notes in the menu bar. And then we go over to Preferences. Under preferences, you’re going to see resume last quick note. This is going to be selected by default. When I deselect this. Now what it’ll do when I create a new Quick note, so I’m going to quit out of notes here. And I’m in my calendar, I want to create a new Quick note, all I have to do is hold down the globe key in the Q key, it opens up a new note.

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I close it. Now I want to create another quick note, I’m going to move my cursor to the lower right hand corner of my display. So I just go down to the lower right hand corner.

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And when I click, we can see it as a new note. So this is note three now. So now I have three notes in there three quick notes. When we’re in Safari, we can even take this a step further, we can add links. Let’s go and close this calendar app. And now I’m going to go to Safari.

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Let’s go on to Apple here. And let’s say I wanted to create a quick note with a link to Apple here will be in that I’m looking@apple.com. What I can do is go up to the share icon. And then you’re going to see notes. I select this

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and it creates a new note. So I’m going to save this.

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Another thing I can do is use the globe and the Q key keyboard shortcut. So I go globe Q, we can see we have a new note and I will go website, Apple. And if I want to add the link, I go over to the link icon here, click on it and we go on add that link.

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We can do the same thing. With a quick note in the lower right hand corner. I go down to the bottom, click on it. It’s going to be a new note. I click on the link. I add safari in here. And now we have that link in there.

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As you saw we can also because I have messages open I can also edit a link to mess

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images. So I just go globe queue, open up a new note. And let’s say I wanted to add my message Lincoln here. I click on Add Lincoln, and we’ll add that as well. So now where do I find these quick notes, I know how to add them, I can add links to them. If I’m in Safari, where do I go and find these quick notes. Let’s go ahead and quit out of Safari here.

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And then we’re going to go to my notes app. You’re going to see up at the top here, I have quick notes. This is where quick notes are found. So I click on it. And now I can see all of the different quick notes that I created. To open up any of them, I just double click on it to open it up.

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As of this point, it is just a another note, but it is located in my quick notes. Now if I want to move these quick notes to my standard notes, I can do that as well. So I use quick notes to quickly get my thoughts in a note now that I have all of my thoughts in a note, I would like to move that over to a folder here. I’m going to move it over to notes. All I have to do is just drag it over there. So let’s go and move this note here, website Apple, all I have to do is just take it and drag it over to notes here, I can put it into any folder. And when I do that, it moves it out of quick notes here, you’re gonna see it is no longer there. I only have four notes, but it will be in my notes folder here. And then the last thing I want to mention is, we can also change which corner we use for creating a quick note, we don’t even have to have that turned on. Basically what this is, is a hot corner. So what Apple has done with MacOS Monterey is it has set the lower right hand corner here to create a quick note, it’s a hot corner, what are hot corners? Well, apples had them for a while. Let’s go and open up my System Preferences here. So I go to the Apple menu. And then we go over to my System Preferences. Under System Preferences, we go over to Mission Control. Under Mission Control, you’re going to see we have hot corners. With hot corners, what I’m able to do is set my Mac to do specific things when I move my cursor into a corner. I’ve talked about this in other lessons, my favorite thing to do is have it go and show my desktop when I moved my cursor to the lower left hand corner, this is a hot corner. So if I move my cursor to the lower left hand corner here, watch what happens. Hi, J System Preferences and I can see my desktop, I move it in there again, it brings it back. So that’s basically what hot corners are. And we can set this up for each corner. Well with MacOS Monterey, what Apple did is they created an option for quick note. So if I want to move this to the upper left hand corner, I can do that all I have to do is just click on it. I don’t want it for anything. And then I go over to the upper left hand corner here. And I say I want this to be a quick note. And now when I move my cursor to the upper left hand corner,

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we get my quick note here. And then last you can also change which corner is used for creating a quick note is found into System Preferences, mission control hot corners.

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Again, this was introduced with MacOS Monterrey. So if you’re using an old version of MacOS, you will now have quick notes. So that’s how we use quick notes on the Mac.