Collect Recipes

Another great but lesser-known use of the Notes app is found in its ability to be used to collect information from other apps. Notes appears on the iOS Share Sheet pretty much everywhere, so it’s a great way of compiling recipes from different web pages, or collecting addresses of favourite restaurants from Apple Maps, compiling information for a term paper, or just about any other collection of resources else that you’d like to keep an easy list of.

What’s even cooler is that Notes presents these shared links in a rich format that looks great and allows you to easily visualize what’s behind the link. How these will look does depend somewhat on how the source website is designed — obviously text-only sites won’t include a picture at all — but it works really well for many image-heavy sites.

As an added bonus, you can also drag and drop these rich links within your notes to easily reorder them, and of course they flow with whatever other elements you want to put into your notes, so you can still add text, create checklists, and even insert sketches, drawings, photos, and scans.