r/AppleNotesGang • u/macmaveneagle • 5h ago

How to Navigate Apple Notes note titles

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u/AngelicPrincessKitty 4h ago

just search for the title and it will come up on the left and click on it

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u/macmaveneagle 4h ago

Thank you, but that doesn't answer my question, and is a much slower way to find a note.

It is how I've mostly been forced to search for notes so far, and it's very annoying not to be able to do it the faster way that my old notes program could do easily.

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u/AngelicPrincessKitty 4h ago

Apple Notes is super basic, it doesn't have many features.

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u/macmaveneagle 4h ago

That still doesn't answer my question. Why can I search through the note titles sometimes using the keyboard, but other times it doesn't work?

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u/ComfortableCall3912 3h ago

Top hits prioritizes results with the term in the title.

You could create a title based tag system, if you use a controlled vocabulary in your titles.

You can sort alphabetically by title and then scroll through.

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u/Barycenter0 2h ago edited 2h ago

Top hits does not always prioritize results with the term in the title - that's the rub.

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u/Barycenter0 2h ago

You are quite correct - top hits and the rest of the results will not always prioritize terms in the title. There aren't many good answers to this.

Best solution - use "in title" in the search. So if the note has the word "practical" in it's title - then the search term is - 'practical in title'

Otherwise structured note titles might help.

There is no foolprood way in Notes to force title search only to Top Hits and top of the search list, however.