What Apple Notes is missing

With iPadOS 15 Apple’s Notes app now has Quick note and tags. Even though these are nice additions Notes will not become my everyday note-taking app, and here’s why.

Many of the notes that I take throughout the day are notes that I will want to do something with later. A note may become a task in Things, a reminder, or event in Fantastical, a new draft for this blog in Ulysses, or a journal entry in Day One. What’s missing from Notes is the lack of export options or actions to get notes out of Notes. This is a dealbreaker for me. That’s why I use Drafts. Ya know, the old saying “text starts here”. Any text starts in Drafts, including stuff that may eventually end up in Notes.

That said, I do use Notes as cold storage for notes that I seldom reference. I have several hundred of these notes and Notes is the perfect place for them.