The iPhone was first launched in 2007, and the Notes app has been a part of it since the beginning.
I imagine it was first used purely as a legitimate, no-frills notebook — passwords, addresses, what-have-you — and my own has a bit of that too, of course. To-do lists, gift ideas for friends’ birthdays, scans of documents and polaroid pictures. But, as most people my age would attest to, the vast majority of anyone’s Notes these days is taken up by extremely unnecessary entries. For me, it’s a lot of drive-thru coffee orders, logs of my dreams, 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. If you were to ask any teenager or twenty-something for the password to their phone, I think you’d 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, but that’s a topic for another time. 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 a lot. This selection of screenshots is not nearly all of them, or even the most exciting, I’m sad to say. 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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