Keep sticky notes on a conversation
Sticky notes sit inside the message they’re about, beside the words they quote, with the message’s text wrapping around them. They’re a place for the thoughts you have while reading a long reply, so you can keep reading and come back to them.
Steps
Select the words
In a conversation, select part of a message, as you would to copy it. Add note and Quote in message appear above your selection once you let go.
Choose Add note
A note opens in the message, beside the paragraph with the words, which stay highlighted.
Type your thought
Press Return on a Mac, or Enter on Windows and Linux, to save it. To start a new line instead, hold Shift as you press it.
Select Add to reply
Point to the note and select Add to reply at its bottom. The note joins your message, and the note says In your reply. When you send, your message starts with the highlighted words as a quote, then your note.
Good to know
- To take a note on a whole message, point to the message, select the ⋯ button beside its copy button (Message actions), and choose Add note. The note sits at the top of the message.
- To take a note on the whole conversation, select the … button at the top of the conversation, then select Note on the conversation. Notes on the whole conversation sit at the top of it.
- Select a highlight in a message to go to its note.
- To answer the words straight away instead, choose Quote in message. See Write and send a message.
- Notes are always shown. In a narrow window, a note sits above the paragraph it’s about, with the words it quotes.
- To change a note, select its text and type. Press Esc to put back what it said before. A new note you haven’t typed in goes away when you press Esc.
- To delete a note, point to it and select the × in its corner.
- After you send a message with a note in it, the note says Sent. To take a note out of your message before you send it, select In your reply on the note, or the × on the note in your message.
- You can add several notes to one message. They’re quoted in the order you added them.
- Everyone in a shared project sees its notes, with the name of the person who wrote each one. Notes also come along when you sync the project to your other computers.
- To see every note in the project in one place, and write one that isn’t on anything, select Notes, the sticky note in your project’s tabs at the top left of the window. See See all your notes in one place.
- Forking a conversation copies the notes on the messages it copies. Deleting a conversation deletes its notes.
- The iPhone app doesn’t show sticky notes.