Apple Notes Format Option Question

[purdnost]

I've just come across this formatting option in Apple Notes. Can anyone clarify what it's called and its purpose? When tapped, it applies a slight indentation to a line of text and adds a small gray vertical line to the left of it.

 

[blotchy-veil]

It is the block quote format option. As the name suggests, it is for denoting a section of quotations.

 

[neutrino17]

If I understand it correctly, then this is similar to other Apple text formatting in Pages and such.

You select some text then choose Heading, Body, etc.

So you might have a line you make a heading then some paragraphs as body. Now, if you change the format of some body text (font size for example) then all of the text that was specified as body will also experience that change.

You could have a few lines identified as Heading in a document. Now you can select one and change the attributes (bold, size) and all of the Heading lines should change also.

At least this is how it works elsewhere in Apple world.

 

[one more]

On a slightly different topic, but still formatting related. Has anyone figured out a way of converting a note to a plain text to be able to copy-paste it into an email or some such? For now I need to use a third-party app, but would love to find a more straightforward way with Apple’s own tools.

 

[blotchy-veil]

On a slightly different topic, but still formatting related. Has anyone figured out a way of converting a note to a plain text to be able to copy-paste it into an email or some such? For now I need to use a third-party app, but would love to find a more straightforward way with Apple’s own tools.

To remove formatting from Apple Notes, you can create a shortcut in the share sheet with actions Get Text From Input and Copy to Clipboard. It doesn’t work in the general case, though.

 

[one more]

To remove formatting from Apple Notes, you can create a shortcut in the share sheet with actions Get Text From Input and Copy to Clipboard. It doesn’t work in the general case, though.

I need it to work on iOS/iPadOS, so for now am using an app called Easy Note. Another, more native way, is to copy any text into a browser’s search window, that would strip it off of all formatting, but this is still not ideal.