19.8. Notes

19.8. Notes Lets face it: No operating system is complete without Notes. You have to have a place for little reminders, phone numbers, phone messages, Web addresses, brainstorms, shopping-list hints—anything thats worth writing down
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19.8. Notes19.8. NotesLets face it: No operating system is complete without Notes. You have to have a placefor little reminders, phone numbers, phone messages, Web addresses, brainstorms,shopping-list hints—anything thats worth writing down, but too tiny to justify heaving awhole word processor onto its feet.The silly thing is how many people create reminders for themselves by sendingthemselves an email message.That system works, but its a bit inelegant. Fortunately, Mac OS X now has a dedicatedNotes feature. As a bonus, it syncs automatically to the Notes folder of your iPhonesmail program, or to other computers, as long as you have an IMAP-style email account(see the box on Section 19.2).Notes look like actual yellow notepaper with ruled lines, but you can style em, save em,and even send em to your friends. You can type into them, paste into them, and attachpictures to them. And unlike loose scraps of paper or email messages to yourself that mayget lost in your mailbox, Notes stay obediently tucked in the Reminders section of theMailboxes list so you can always find them when you need them.Tip: Ordinarily, Notes also appear in your Inbox, at the top. If you prefer to keep yourInbox strictly for messages, though, you can remove the Notes. Choose MailPreferences Accounts Mailbox Behaviors, and then turn off Store notes inInbox. The Notes will still be waiting for you in the side column, down in the Remindersarea.To create a note, click the Note button on the Mail toolbar. You can also choose FileNew Note or press Control- -N to pop up a fresh piece of onscreen paper.Once you have your Note, type your text and click the Fonts and Colors buttons at the topof the window to style it. To insert a picture, click the Attach button, and then find thephoto or graphic on your Mac you want to use. Figure 19-21 shows an example.Note: You can also attach other kinds of files to a Note—ordinary documents, forexample. But you cant send such Notes to other people—only Notes with pictures.Figure 19-21. They may look like little pads of scratch paper, but Mail Notes let youpaste in Web addresses and photos alongside your typed and formatted text. If you want to share, click the Send button to have the entire Note plop into a new Mail message, ready to be addressed.When youre finished with your Note, click Done to save it. When you look for it in theReminders category of the Mailboxes list, youll see that Mail used the first line of theNote as its subject.To delete a Note for good, select it and press the Delete key.If youve worked hard on this little Note and want to share it, double-click it to open thenote into a new window. Click the Send button on its toolbar. Mail puts the whole thinginto a new Mail message—complete with yellow-paper background—so your pal can seehow seriously (and stylishly) you take the whole concept of Note to self.