Somewhere to put the thing you will badly need in three weeks.
How it works
Home, ideas and work across the top. Click one and the list narrows to it, and a note can carry several.
The note you keep coming back to takes a pin and holds the top while everything else sorts by recency.
Each note shows enough of itself to be recognised without opening, plus when you last touched it. Twenty eight minutes ago is usually all the identification you need.
Mention a trip, a recipe or a project by typing a hash and its name. The link stays live and opens the thing it points at.
Asked about Notes
Somewhere to put the thing you will badly need in three weeks. Home, ideas and work across the top. Click one and the list narrows to it, and a note can carry several.
No, and on purpose. Notes is one of the four modules with no switch, along with Planner, Shared, Habits, and it stays in the sidebar whatever else you turn off.
Yes, once iCloud sync is unlocked for $14.99, paid once and covering the Mac and the iPhone together. Until then Notes keeps its data on the device you typed it into, and it goes nowhere else.