Awesome Apple Notes feature helps you remember anything

here's an amazing trick that's going to save you lots of time and help you remember anything It's in the notes app on your iPhone or your iPad or your Mac So you do need one of those And I've

been using Apple Notes for years by the way but I keep getting blown away by all of the cool new stuff that it can do And so this feature used to be available only in the separate voice memos app but

is now available right inside Apple Notes And it's absolutely amazing on my iPhone over here I'm going to open up Apple Notes and I'm going to tap into this particular note which I've already given a title because it's about the

filter replacement for my heating ventilation and air conditioning unit that I've got in my apartment So the other day the heating to ventilation air conditioning unit just stopped working

and I realized it's cuz I had to replace the filter You'd think that would be really easy but actually it took me probably about 30 minutes to figure out how to do it and then to actually do it which is just a lot of time I'm going to

have to do this again in a year or so So I just want to write down in this note how to do it so I save the time next year Now what I can do inside this note if I just tap into it you see this bar appears at the bottom and there's a

paperclipip button And I'm just going to tap that paperclip button There's a lot of things I can do right here but I'm going to tap record audio And now what I'm going to do is I'm just going to

talk to my phone Just make sure I hold it close to my mouth and explain how I replace the filter When replacing the filter on the HVAC unit first look at the top of the filter It will say either one or two Instead of one just take the

filter out flip it very quickly Put it back in use twice The number two is already at the top There is a new filter in there And then it'll get going again This is going to save me so much time next year What I'm going to do now is I'm going to tap done You're going to

see a bunch of cool stuff There's this card now inside my note It's titled new recording We'll fix that in a minute But it has a little preview You can see right there it's audio You can play it back And there's a little summary of

what I just said Now if I tap on this card though I get to this screen right here And you see that I can actually scroll through a transcript of what I just said This is so amazing because

obviously it's much faster to actually talk to my phone explain what needs doing than to type this all in especially on my phone right but there's way more cool stuff that we can do with this beyond just that So first of all at the top we can tap summary and that's

just going to quickly summarize everything that we said There's actually a pretty good pretty good summary right here Now there's way more cool stuff we can do If you're in this screen right here you can tap the ellipses at the top right So I'm just going to tap that And

first of all I can rename this So I'll just say filter replacement instructions just cuz I like things to have clean names But if I go into that ellipses menu you can see for example that I can

copy the transcript and I can then send it in an email Let's say I need to send it to my partner so that they can use these instructions next year I can tap find and transcript and search perhaps for the word number But what I really

like doing is tapping this button that says add transcript and note If I do that it actually takes the whole text of what I said and just pastes it in the notes So I can read it right here and manipulate it which is just really

really convenient So this is really great for capturing ideas when you're on the go In fact often when I'm just on a walk around my neighborhood I'll have a really good idea just something I want

to share with someone or an insight that I had or something maybe that I want to write in an email and I'll just pull out my phone and rather than like stand awkwardly on the sidewalk and like try to type out a whole thing I just open up

the record audio and I just talk to my phone and I'm done much more quickly and I can go back to whatever I was doing enjoying the beautiful neighborhood I live in right but there's so many good use cases for this Also a few months ago

I went to the dentist and he gave me some instructions about like a wisdom tooth I need to have pulled and stuff And I just as soon as I stepped out of the dentist's office just recorded that into a note and now I can refer back to

that cuz hey I'm not going to remember what the guy said And I actually heard a really good example recently where someone said "Hey I sometimes have to go to the doctor's office with my elderly parent This is such a great way for me

to just record what the doctor says and then I can summarize it and share the whole thing or just the summary with my parent afterwards you know because they're forgetful What a great use case right one thing I want to do in this

particular case in addition to having the transcript is I'm just going to go to the bottom of the note and I'm actually also just going to attach a photo So I'll choose the paper clip and then choose choose photo or video and I just took a photo where I'm just

pointing at the particular button that I need to press to get it to those settings and you know tell the unit that I refresh the filter I find that really helpful I'm also going to go in and actually start typing

#home and that just adds a tag of home and that's really helpful because when I then go into the main screen of my Apple notes I can tap home and see all of the

home notes that I've taken recently and really easily get back to this one By the way if you've previously recorded something in the voice memos app and you'd like to get that into a note in

the notes app that's really easy to do Just open the voice memos app and grab the voice recording that you want to share Just tap the ellipses and tap

share Then just choose the notes app and you can save it to a new note for example Or if you tap in here you can choose an existing note For example here's the HVAC filter note but I'll

choose a new note in this case and just tap save Now if I go back to Apple Notes you're going to see a new note and it's going to have the audio recording attached I can tap into it and it'll

have a transcript as well And you can actually share audio from any other app into the notes app as well and it will transcribe it Here's a tip for doing this quickly when you're on the go By the way just unlock your phone and then

long press the Notes app icon and then tap record audio It'll jump right into recording audio inside a new note You can tap the record button record whatever you want to record tap the

pause button tap done and it'll be right there I want to show you another couple of cool things you can do with Apple Notes But for that let's switch over to the Mac Apple Notes automatically sync

this note to the Mac That's incredibly helpful We've got the audio we've got the text we've got the image we've got the tag that we assigned Now what I like

to do in a case like this is also include the PDF manual for the device that I was using right here So how are we going to do that we're going to click this button right here and we're just

going to choose attach file Now it's in my downloads folder which I'm going to sort by date added and or group by date addit And then this is all the documents that I downloaded today cuz I went and

found it on the internet Attach And now the PDF sits in the document right here And I can actually just like swipe through the PDF like this I know this is in Dutch You probably have no idea what this says but this is the instruction

manual for the thing Now if you click the little arrow icon right here you can actually go view as and make it small medium or large Medium looks like this It's just a little bit smaller And if I

do view as and do small it's a lot smaller And I actually find this one pretty nice for a note like this You can actually do this for the image as well by the way Just rightclick the image go

view as and make it small and you have a much neater note Now another really cool thing that I want to show you is an AI feature So this is totally optional You don't have to use AI if you don't want

to but this can be pretty cool What I can do is I can actually select this text and then I can press this button right here which is the writing tools button What I can say is convert this to a

stepbystep list There's a bunch more options here by the way right i can proofread I can rewrite make this more friendly professional all kinds of things But I can also just tell it to do something So I'm going to say convert this to a step-by-step list And it's

going to take a second and do that There you go Now we have a very simple step-by-step list that I can follow next time And I've just got a beautiful note And in about a year's time when I need to replace this filter I'll know exactly

what to do I won't have to start digging around through YouTube video comments anymore Now if you're thinking "Hey this is great but I use a Windows PC I don't have a Mac I do have an iPhone but a

Windows PC." You can still access these

Windows PC." You can still access these notes on your Windows PC All you got to do is go over to iCloud.com/notes Sign in with your Apple

iCloud.com/notes Sign in with your Apple account and all that kind of stuff And once you're signed in you'll get to iCloud notes and you can browse your notes just the same way that you can do it in the notes app So I can find the

note right here and I'll see all the information here Now does this have all of the features of the app on your iPhone on your Mac no it doesn't But the audio is here and I can download it and play it if I want The instructions are

here the PDF is here and the image is here So that's really helpful I should mention at this point that transcription is not available in all languages So if you don't see a transcript that might be

why Try it in English And if that does work then unfortunately your language is not supported yet Also recording the audio right here It's not going to pick up different speakers It's just going to

all transcribe the audio you know as if one person said it So if you need to record for example a meeting between you and other people and you want to keep track of who's saying what you might want to use a dedicated note takingaking

like meeting note-taking app for that I like Fireflies.ai for example You also just want to make sure you're on a recent iPhone iPad or a Mac and that they're fully updated and then you

should see these features Now if you found this just as cool as I find it you can go ahead and download my free Apple Notes cheat sheet linked in the video description to discover a bunch more stuff that you can do with Apple Notes

And if you're like "Hey I would love to have a whole system for stuff like this to remember things that I need to do," you can enroll in my course Productivity 101 I'll also link to that in the

description of the video It gets you set up with your own personal productivity system which hey we're asked to do so much in this modern world We all have so many responsibilities Like we need a personal productivity system to stay

organized get stuff done just to survive So go check that out as well Thanks for watching I'll see you in the next video Ciao