Notes
Notes are SnipperApp 3's rich-text snippet kind: format like Apple Notes, paste screenshots inline, and sync through iCloud. Create one with Option+Cmd+N.
A Note is a second kind of snippet in SnipperApp 3. A code snippet is a plain-text code editor with syntax highlighting. A Note is a rich-text document you format like Apple Notes, with images placed right in the text. Notes live next to your code in the same folders, tags, workspaces, and search.
What Is a Note?
Every snippet in SnipperApp 3 is one of two kinds:
| Code snippet | Note | |
|---|---|---|
| Editor | Monospace code editor with syntax highlighting | Rich text, formatted in place |
| Language | Picked from the language picker | None. A Note badge shows instead |
| Formatting | Plain text only | Bold, italic, headings, lists, highlights, and more |
| Images | Attached to the attachments strip | Placed inline at the cursor (and kept as attachments too) |
| Copy (Shift+Cmd+C) | The code, as is | Plain text, without Markdown syntax |
You can tell them apart in the editor header. A code snippet shows the language picker. A Note shows a small Note badge (a note icon) in the same spot.
A Note is still a snippet. It has a title, lives in a folder or workspace, takes tags and favorites, shows up in search and the Command Center, and syncs through iCloud.
Creating a Note
Notes need Enable Rich Text Notes in Settings > General. It is on by default.
Create a Note in any of these ways:
- Press Option+Cmd+N.
- Choose File > New Note.
- Click and hold (or right-click) the New Snippet button in the toolbar and choose New Note.
- Open the Command Center (Cmd+K), type "New Note", and press Enter.
The Note opens in the rich-text editor. Type as you would in any text editor. There is no language to pick.
Formatting
Click the Aa button in the toolbar to open the formatting bar. It gives you:
- Text styles. Bold, italic, underline, and strikethrough.
- Highlights. Five highlight colors: purple, pink, orange, mint, and blue.
- Paragraph styles. Title, Heading, Subheading, Body, and Monostyled.
- Lists. Bulleted and numbered lists. Return continues the list with the next item, and Return on an empty item ends the list.
- Block quotes.
Formatting is applied in place. You never see or type Markdown syntax.
Pasting from a browser keeps your bold and italic text and drops the website's fonts and colors.
Images in Notes
Images go straight into the text, where your cursor is:
- Paste. Take a screenshot, or copy an image from a browser or chat app, then press Cmd+V in the Note.
- Drag. Drag one or more image files from Finder into the text.
- Attach File… Choose Snippet > Attach File… (Shift+Cmd+A), click the paperclip in the toolbar, or right-click in the editor and choose Attach File…. Picked images go inline at the cursor.
Supported image formats: PNG, JPEG, GIF, WebP, HEIC/HEIF, TIFF, BMP, and SVG. SVGs are kept as vectors, so they stay crisp at any size. Compressed .svgz files are attached as ordinary files and are not shown inline.
Files that are not images, or a drop that mixes images with other files, go to the attachments strip above the editor instead of into the text. Snippet > Paste Attachment always attaches to the strip, even in a Note. It has no keyboard shortcut; use it when you want an image in the strip rather than in the text.
Every inline image is also an attachment of the Note, so it appears in the attachments strip. The two stay in step:
- Delete the image from the text and the attachment is removed.
- Remove the attachment from the strip and the image disappears from the text.
- Move an image within the Note with cut and paste (Cmd+X, then Cmd+V).
How Notes Are Stored and Synced
Under the hood, a Note is stored as portable Markdown. You never see the Markdown in the editor, but it means a Note travels everywhere a snippet does:
- iCloud Sync. Notes sync across your Macs like any other snippet, and inline images sync as attachments. See iCloud Sync.
- Backups. The text of a Note is in every backup. Attachments, including inline images, are included only in a manual backup created with Include attachments enabled. Automatic backups do not include attachments. See Backup & Restore.
- GitHub Gist sync and MCP. Both see the Note as Markdown text.
Copying a Note
Press Shift+Cmd+C in the main window, or copy the Note from the menubar popup. Either way you get plain text with no Markdown syntax, ready to paste into an email or a chat.
Related
- Attachments. The attachments strip, Quick Look, and how images are stored.
- Markdown Preview. For Markdown-language code snippets with a rendered preview.
- Keyboard Shortcuts. Every shortcut, including Option+Cmd+N and Shift+Cmd+A.