Using Notes

Not so simple. I still haven't been able to make it work. However. one thing is clear, it was much, much easier to use the old system. Well, I'll keep trying. Sooner or later, I'll figure it out. Thanks Mohave.

The easy system was, still is, the following: 1. click on the Notes icon in my dock, 2. click on the pen icon at the top of the Notes screen, 3. Type or paste whatever you want to save in Notes.

The only problem with this method was that everything was not always posted in the same folder. Before I discovered that, I had thought that Notes was losing things. Now, however, I kn ow that they're not lost, they're just in different folders.

This list is on the far-left side of my Notes screen. If I understand you correctly, part of the Mojave system is to select one of them as the file into which the selected Note is to be placed. That's clear enough.. I just don't know how to do that. My guess is that you highlight the chosen field then click on the pen, but that doesn't work for me

 Notes

Earthlink.net

  All Earthlink.net

  Notes

  New Folder

On My Mac

  All on My Mac

  Notes

  New Folder

  New Folder 1

  Recently Deleted

I can't tell you what I do to use your system, because it has never worked for me. What I am saying is that what I've always done is: 1. Click on the Numbers icon in my Dock, 2. Click on the pen if I want to start a fresh page in Numbers, 3. type or paste into the Numbers page. That's all. I HAVE NEVER PAID ANY ATTENTION to the different folders in the leftmost column, and now I think that's where my problems have started. Whether I noticed or not, some Folder had been selected, and that's how they got "lost." Why the computer selects different Folders at different times I don't know, but I now think that I have to be sure that when I use Notes, the same Folder is always being used. I'll follow that practice in the future. Now I only need to know how to consolidate all of the Folders being used to store Notes. I want all Notes in the same Folder. I can see why some people might want to use more than one Folder, but I don't. Incidentally, if I've used "Folder" when I should have said "Files," or vice-versa, I'm sorry, but I'm sure you know which places or things Im talking about.

I just tested my theory. I selected a Folder and then typed

Test 1 on the page that was brought up. I then did so the same thing for 8 pages, but It only worked for six pages. In other words, clicking on two of the Folders in the leftmost column didn't do anything. I don't know why that is but six out of eight is good enough, so I'll make sure from now on that every time I use Notes, I know where everything is going. Now, as already mentioned, I just need to be able to move everything from the SIX Notes Folders into the same folder.

Nope, I don't get it. As I understand it, here's what you're supposed to do: 1. select what you want to appear I. Not, 2. Select one of the following files: