Notes

Somewhere to put the thing you will badly need in three weeks.

  • Its own screen
  • Always in the sidebar
Sidebar
Always there
Shortcut
Command 3, and Command N for a new one
Links
Type # and a name
Tags
As many as you like, per note
The Notes screen with chips for the home, ideas and work tags, a pinned note about sync architecture at the top, and five more notes each showing a line of their text, when they were last touched and their tags.
The pinned one stays up top. The rest sort by when you last touched them.

How it works

  1. Tags as chips

    Home, ideas and work across the top. Click one and the list narrows to it, and a note can carry several.

  2. Pinned stops it sinking

    The note you keep coming back to takes a pin and holds the top while everything else sorts by recency.

  3. The first line does the work

    Each note shows enough of itself to be recognised without opening, plus when you last touched it. Twenty eight minutes ago is usually all the identification you need.

  4. Type # to link something

    Mention a trip, a recipe or a project by typing a hash and its name. The link stays live and opens the thing it points at.

Asked about Notes

What is the Notes module in Cadence?

Somewhere to put the thing you will badly need in three weeks. Home, ideas and work across the top. Click one and the list narrows to it, and a note can carry several.

Can I switch Notes off?

No, and on purpose. Notes is one of the four modules with no switch, along with Planner, Shared, Habits, and it stays in the sidebar whatever else you turn off.

Does Notes sync between the Mac and the iPhone?

Yes, once iCloud sync is unlocked for $14.99, paid once and covering the Mac and the iPhone together. Until then Notes keeps its data on the device you typed it into, and it goes nowhere else.

Thirty modules, and not one of them wants your email address