My top feature requests for the Apple Notes App in 2021
I love Apple Notes, and I'm using it every day, but the lack of certain features prevents me from using it as my only app for digital note-taking. Following are my top 5 requested features for Apple Notes.
- A version history within every note and the ability to recover deleted content in the timeline (like in Simplenote). Alternatively I could live with a "read-only" mode so at least you can't accidentally delete some text.
- Ability to tag notes and use these tags for organizing notes as an alternative structure to the hierarchical folders (again, like in Simplenote). By the way, Apple already supports a similar feature in Finder on the Mac for any file. This would help me so much for better organization. Perhaps they could also implement some sort of automatically suggested tags using Machine Learning.
- A fully featured and better performing web version of Apple Notes. Right now, the performance of the web version is horrible and unusable for me. Also, it lacks many basic features like inserting pictures, etc. Apple should really start taking their web version more seriously or discontinue it.
- PDFs and Pictures as attachment and NOT printed out (like it's possible in OneNote, for example).
- A better handwriting experience comparable to Notability or GoodNotes. This includes the ability to zoom in and out when in handwriting-mode, advanced selection tool options like changing the size, more formatting options, and more writing tools (e.g., thicker and thinner pens), vector ink, and generally a more responsive handwriting experience. It has come a long way already, but it's still far behind the competition.
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