Notes and voice notes in your Mac's notch

Thoughts arrive mid-task: a phone number, an idea on a call, a list for later. Notes.app is three clicks away, a voice memo ends up somewhere you never look again, and by tonight you've forgotten where you put either.

Hover the notch and pick Notes: your newest note is open, so you can just type. ⌘N starts a new one with the cursor in its title; Return takes you to the text. Everything saves a third of a second after you stop typing, and an empty note tidies itself away.

Press ⌥⌘J in any app to record a voice note. The notch shows a red dot and the time; press ⌥⌘J again and it's saved. It's transcribed on your Mac, given a short title, and plays back with a waveform you can scrub and 1.5× or 2× speed. You can also press Record in Notes, or Dictate inside a note to talk it straight into the text.

Keep it organised your way: pin what matters to the top, put notes in folders, add tags and click a tag to filter. Search finds text notes, titles, tags, and what you said in voice notes.

• Tag voice notes as you go, so a week of them stays findable.
• Insert into a note turns a voice note's transcript into text you can keep editing.
• Your Scratchpad text from earlier versions is the first note.