17. Notes

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Reading and Writing Notes

Notes lets you type notes on a virtual pad of scratch paper. It’s also a handy place to paste text copied from Safari, Mail, Maps, and other apps. (You can’t paste photos or media into Notes.)

Reading and Writing Notes

You can rotate your iPad to read and write notes in portrait or landscape orientation. In portrait view, tap Notes in the top-left corner to open a list of your notes. In landscape view, the list of notes appears on the left, and the current note is circled .

Notes controls.

Notes are listed chronologically, with the most recently modified note at the top. Each item in the list shows the first few words of the note.

Notes recognizes dates, phone numbers, postal addresses, Web addresses, and certain other types of information in messages. If you see a bit of underlined text, touch and hold that link to open a pop-up menu . Depending on the type of information the link represents, you can display a location in Maps, add info to Contacts, create an event in Calendar, open a Web page in Safari, copy text to the Clipboard, and more. Notes even recognizes phrases like lunch today.