Quick notes

What it is

One running note for you, and one shared note per team, with basic formatting: bold, italic, strikethrough, headings, bulleted and numbered lists and checklists. Type **bold**, - , 1. , [] or ## as you write, use ⌘B and ⌘I, or select text for a small menu.

Aden reads what you write as you type and puts small cards above the sheet:

• As to-dos / As milestones for a bulleted list.
• A session or show for a day you mention ("Friday at 3").
• A track you name, opening its page.
• Add as lyrics for a block of lyric lines under a track's name.

A card opens its page in a small window, so you jot now and act later.

Select words and the menu over them also has ✦ Create: the same cards for just those words (a verse goes to the track the note names above it), a new track, session or to-do, or Something else…, which hands the words to quick create for Jev to read.

Chat with Jev

On the Quick notes page, the ✦ button opens Jev beside the sheet. Ask about the note to explore ideas, or tell Jev what to change ("tidy this into a checklist") and the note updates. Undo under the reply puts it back. The chat is not saved.

Using it

• Open Quick notes from ⌘K, or from the widget on your dashboard.
• Switch between your notes and a team's with the picker beside the title.
• On the desktop, pin Quick notes to the rail from the rail's +, like any page. Choosing the Songwriter view in onboarding pins it for you.
• On the desktop, ⌘K and the launcher (⌃Space) find any paragraph of your notes by its words and float the sheet over what you're doing.
• In the mobile app, open Notes from Home or search. Tap the name above the sheet to switch to a team's notes. Turn on Diary in Customize dashboard to keep your diary there too.

Apple Notes

On a Mac, turn on Apple Notes in search in the desktop app's Settings, General. Your Apple Notes then show up in ⌘K and the launcher: pick one to open it in Notes, or use its menu to add that one note to your Quick notes or a team's. Nothing is copied into Aden until you add a note. The first time, macOS asks whether Aden may control Notes.

Notes about songwriting (lyrics, hooks, song ideas, found by title, folder or section markers like "Verse" and "Chorus") also show in Recent on the desktop Home, among your files by when you last edited them.