Change default font size in Notes App in OS X El Capitan

This doesn't answer the original post, but does allow some additional options. If you right click on the text, it will offer some more options as shown below:

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I have the same problem, create a note on iPhone and the font size looks good, go to Notes on Macbook Air and body font size is tiny. If you use command+ to increase font size for Notes on the Mac then the same Note on the iPhone changes to tiny font size.

I think what everyone would like to see with the new OS X 10.11 and iOS 9 Notes is not a change in default font size, but rather a user selectable, per-device Notes app font zoom (since every device has a different resolution and everyone has individual tastes).

I emailed Tim Cook, sadly no response (yet)!

Yes I have this problem and it's extremely annoying. I've been using SimpleNote for years very successfully (Notational Velocity on the desktop) but had thought to give up fighting the Apple way and use Notes only to find that on a Retina screen it's practically unusable. Stupid, that Apple increased the resolution on all their devices but hard coded the font size in pixels. Frustrating.

My current workaround is to have a low resolution Dell screen hanging off the side of your 5k and drag the Notes app onto it.

Is it me or does it seem like the updates created for my computer, which i am required to install, are not well vetted? Is there anyone over 50 working in that office? could they please, pretty please run their ideas past some 50+ eyes to see if there might be any issues? Remember we baby boomers are the biggest portion of the population and we have tons of money!

I think this is just yet another example of the decline in Apple software quality and usability.

http://www.apple.com/feedback/

I don't understand why the word "Default" is so hard for people to understand. It means you don't have to change it every time This was borrowed from the Mail.app where the default font is never sent. Only sizes and fonts changed in each individual email get sent. Try this: Change your Default font for messages in Mail.app and look at your sent folder. You shouldn't be able to change fonts for messages already sent. Mail.app has been like this as long as Mail.app has existed, i.e. every version since MAC OS 9.

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Even worse than that, there is a terrible lag when typing. I can type three sentences and sit back and read it as it slowly prints what i just typed letter by letter

back space causes a mega jump and bounce in the focal point of the app.

And lastly, using one font size, when i look at a paragraph, its as if the text is growing smaller and smaller like Alice in wonderland when she eats the cake

Curioser and curioser indeed - see below screenshot, and watch it get smaller and smaller from top to bottom.

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Same here. The editing of plist seems no longer working and we have no idea where does the Notes read configs from or maybe some SDE hard-wired Helvetica 12pt in the code!

How does Apple overlook such basic stuff as the size of the font? I mean this is an app called "notes." Like you said, "somebody"(Apple Engineers) has set the default font size for all users to a tiny, unusable font size requiring it to be sized up for every new note you make. Hopefully they will get it soon and fix. Sorry but it's frustrating.

Open notes via spotlight . Type your desired subject in notes and select it by using command + A

Take your cursor on top menu bar > click on format > font > Bigger ( + ) .

You will notice the size of word / subject is increased and it will be permanent until you delete the notes , you can click on plus sign as per your requirement .

They fixed it in Sierra!