I imagine, when it was first launched with the original iPhone in 2007, the Notes app was mostly used as a legitimate, no-frills notebook — passwords, addresses, what-have-you. Mine still has some of that too, of course: to-do lists, gift ideas for friends’ birthdays, scans of documents and polaroids, etc. etc. But these days the Notes app seems to function more like a jumbled commonplace book than anything else, where scans of your birth certificate hold the same weight as inane midnight musings and unsent text message drafts. Much of my own Notes are drive-thru coffee orders, logs of my dreams, somewhat memorable one-liners, and notes to pass to my friends if we’re somewhere too loud (or too quiet) to say them out loud.
I love the Notes app. I think if you were to ask any teenager or twenty-something for the password to their phone, you’d probably be able to find out the most about them from (a) their camera roll, and (b) their Notes app. Maybe their saved alarms on the Clock app, too, actually. But the point is: the Notes app is the window to the soul. Or something.
I have 1,694 entries in my Notes (somehow), and they take up 1.27GB of storage on my phone. That’s kind of a lot. This selection of screenshots is not nearly all of them, or even the most exciting. But it is a fun little collage of notes/thoughts/numbered lists through time, and I hope it makes for a fun skimming experience.
I’m very sorry for the horrific formatting. I cannot figure out how to make it look remotely nice or intentional.
xoxo Erin
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One response to “what’s in a Notes app? (whimsy)”
wow. this is the world’s greatest blog post. thanks for sharing erin.
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