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Universal Any way to make notes on a webpage in Safari?
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There's a couple different things you can do natively.
Create Quick Notes
You can also highlight text/images and create a Quick Note from there.
Annotate and save a webpage
Note: Rather than saving the PDF to Files, you can tap the share icon and save it to Notes (or some other app) instead.
Create Quick Notes
Use Quick Notes on iPhone
On iPhone, use Quick Notes to jot down information over any app or screen.
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Use Quick Notes on iPad
On iPad, use Quick Notes to jot down information over any app or screen.
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You can also highlight text/images and create a Quick Note from there.
Annotate and save a webpage
Annotate and save a webpage as a PDF in Safari on iPhone
In Safari on iPhone, mark up a webpage, highlight your favorite parts, draw and write notes, and share your document as a PDF with others.
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Annotate and save a webpage as a PDF in Safari on iPad
In Safari on iPad, mark up a webpage, highlight your favorite parts, draw and write notes, and share your document as a PDF with others.
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Note: Rather than saving the PDF to Files, you can tap the share icon and save it to Notes (or some other app) instead.
Many thanks, but I was (vaguely) aware of these options. I was more hoping to note directly on the webpage and not have to bring it into another app. Main use case for is leaving the webpage in an open tab to come back to shortly, but not wanting to forget what I was going to do regarding it. An analogue version of this would be writing on a post-it note and sticking it on a page in a book as I’m reading through it, as opposed to copying the page and marking it up and putting it in my journal, which is useful too but a different situation and purpose.
That's basically how Quick Notes works. The note should re-appear the next time you view the page. And if you use iCloud syncing, the note will re-appear when you view the page on other devices too.
Oh I didn’t know that it shows up on the webpage—that will probably work, thanks!
Do you happen to know if it will also work for making notes on emails? If it does, only the Apple mail app? But for emails I really want the note to be stored with the emails only, wouldn’t want it to fill up my Notes app 🫤
Yeah, it works for the Apple Mail app too, similar to Safari. (Didn't have any luck getting it to work with Outlook.) The note will pop-up when viewing the email again, or you can tap the link in the note to go back to the email. The link seems buggy to me, it only works on the device I created the link from. If I create the note/link on my iPhone and try to open it from my iPad, it says it can't find the email. The note does pop-up when I go to view the email on my iPad though.
On iPhone, I had to add the Quick Note button to my Control Center to initiate it from there.
On iPad, I used the swipe from corner gesture.
On Mac, I think you use the fn-Q shortcut.
I wish these quick notes were organized better in Notes. I'm not really a fan of them showing up in the Quick Notes folder...AND in the Notes folder...AND in the All iCloud folder. Would be cool if they were just in one spot and organized by the apps where the note was made.
For emails, I suppose there could be better ways to do this. Reply to yourself, flag it, create a task (in Outlook), etc.