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I want to use Apple notes for chronological entries. Is there a way to have the application itself organize entries by date, or do I have to do this myself manually? What if I put a date in the title of the entry?
Thank you in advance for any thoughts.
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If you want it work that way, yes, I think you'd need to do it by title. My recommendation would be to use the date as the beginning of the title in this format "yyyymmdd" (e.g. 20231218). Put whatever you like after that. That would force everything to stay in date order.
If you want it work that way, yes, I think you'd need to do it by title. My recommendation would be to use the date as the beginning of the title in this format "yyyymmdd" (e.g. 20231218). Put whatever you like after that. That would force everything to stay in date order.
In Notes on your Mac, go to Settings>Sort Notes By> and select either Date Created or Date Edited.
For anyone else reading this exchange, the last step is to sort by "Titles" in Settings.
Idris,
Thank you very much.
Is there any way to organize “late entries” in this system? Suppose I want to today enter a note from a week ago. Is there a way to get it to line up behind later notes?
Thanks again.
Mr. Seabright,
Thanks very much! Appreciate your help!
Why, thank you, Miss Mark1411! ;-)
Yes, that is important!
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