Apple has added a couple of new options to the macOS Notes app for including parts to textual content. Here is tips on how to use the Notes Attachments Browser.
The Notes app in macOS 15 Sequoia provides some new options, and a type of is a brand new Notes Attachments Browser.
Notes has lengthy allowed customers so as to add attachments to textual content notes – specifically media resembling pictures, motion pictures, information, maps, and net hyperlinks.
Once you add an attachment to a observe in Notes in macOS it exhibits up as a big thumbnail within the particular person Observe pane. It is on the correct aspect of the primary window within the app.
If you choose a observe within the lefthand column in Notes, you may scroll by way of the chosen notes and think about all of the attachments.
However attachments have been a little bit of an annoyance in Notes for a very long time. There isn’t any a number of choice drag and drop, you may solely drag one attachment to the Finder Desktop at a time, and there is no menu command for “Ship Attachment to Observe” – which might simply will let you transfer attachments between totally different notes.
Scrolling has been a little bit of a problem too, with the only observe pane bouncing a bit for those who add, minimize, or reorder attachments by dragging.
Notes Attachments Browser
If you choose a observe on the left within the Notes app and select View->Notes Attachments Browser (Command-3), the rightmost pane turns right into a grid containing all of that Observe’s attachments.
The Attachments Browser types attachments through a tab bar on the prime: Pictures, Scans, Maps, Web sites, Audio, and Paperwork.
Surprisingly, essentially the most helpful of those is the Web sites tab, however it does not kind the displayed net hyperlinks by class, nor does it present any subheadings. All of the displayed hyperlinks are tossed in vertical columns.
Worse, there is no Reduce or Delete command both within the Edit menu or in contextual menus when right-clicking an merchandise within the Notes Attachments Browser. When right-clicking a picture file within the browser for instance, there is a Copy popup menu merchandise, however not a Reduce or Delete merchandise.
We additionally discovered a couple of bugs within the Attachments Browser. The worst of which is that if you choose an attachment, right-click it and choose Present in Observe from the popup menu, it usually does not take you to the proper observe containing the attachment.
That is very true in case your Notes app incorporates loads of notes with an enormous variety of diverse attachments, or for those who’ve set your iCloud account to be the default Notes app account in Notes->Settings.
It is shocking Apple would launch one thing on this state. The Notes Attachments Browser is generally simply what it says: a browser – and that is it. It wants some polish.
It seems the primary objective of the browser is solely to supply a fast view of what attachments are included in Notes. You may nevertheless drag a copy of some attachments resembling pictures or paperwork to the Desktop in macOS from the browser window.
Pictures Browser
There’s additionally a Window->Picture Browser menu merchandise, however it does not have something to do with photograph attachments in Notes. It merely opens a small utility window that shows the contents of your Pictures app – from which you’ll choose media.
From the Picture Browser window, you may drag media again right into a observe within the Notes principal window – or to the Finder’s Desktop, which is helpful.
Pictures Browser in macOS Notes.
Is the Notes Attachments Browser helpful? Sure. Does it work the best way it ought to? Nope.
If Apple would refine it and add essential instructions resembling Delete to the browser pane, it might be actually helpful.
Including the flexibility to pull from the browser pane to any observe at will could be actually cool. It will will let you switch attachments from one observe to a different simply.
However you may’t try this at the moment as a result of the pane that shows the person notes turns into the browser pane when you choose it from the View menu.
The aforementioned “Transfer to” menu merchandise for shifting attachments and even particular person notes into different current notes could be an enormous enchancment.
If Apple can take into consideration the design of Notes a bit and make some minor enhancements, it will likely be a lot better.
