Forever Notes: Ultimate Beginner's Guide

[@toolfinderhq]

*Get your free note-taking report PDF* uz0ydchnaf0.typeform.com/to/T193XeXp I've noticed post-edit that there are some places where it is blurred, I'm sorry, I will note that for next time. Francesco.

[@AleksTufte]

I like the idea but I have a simple question, how do I make the large asterisk?

[@ThomasDonadei]

Just copy it: ✱

[@lucasj7577]

google "heavy asterisk" and use apples text replacement function to get double * to ✱

[@steveo6475]

The concept seems intuitive and powerful. We just need more examples of how it can be implemented successfully and efficiently with setups of hundreds of notes (of primarily knowledge-based, academic information, not just basic “journaling” or “ideas”). Thanks!

[@AG-en5y]

the crappy thing is that you have to pay for icloud storage

[@EstelaLinares]

Using it for a week and loving it. I agree the journal part is the most powerful. I use it as my daily board for meeting notes, work to do’s and learning notes.

[@botistelockhart5078]

I do not see the suggested link you referred to in the link in the description. “Your setup”

[@Dr8ct0pu8]

I, too, am looking for this.

[@tspmcfarlane]

Good run through, thanks for making this. Appreciate you always being quick to react to these things when they come out.

[@sunbhattacharjee]

So excited seeing people excited about Apple Notes

[@sensen2299]

I’ve been using this method for a while and this is actually very good!

[@Delyn]

Been using it for about 2 weeks now and loving it. The concept is something I’ve tried on my own for a long time now and always failed to figure out a way to make it work but this system makes it so clear to create a “master” note and use it daily

[@Stan_sprinkle]

I agree. It takes a good amount of work to get it set up, but now that I do, I'm loving it. Like I've tried so many things to manage my work and time, and this framework now seems so obvious but it's really changed the way I approach the day and is the first tool I've been excited about in a long time

[@MarkGreenwoodOfficial]

Did I miss the link to the shortcut?

[@SimonSteeleMusic]

How do you make a big asterisk?

[@Badwisdom]

Yes please can’t find it either

[@feefee8ify]

Use this Unicode character ✱

[@rckang]

What I would really love is for someone to work on a process within the Apple ecosystem that incorporates Reminders, Freeform, Shortcuts as well as this upgraded form of Apple Notes in conjunction with email and calendar to really organize their online life.

[@MiniAquiel]

@@rckang I agree. All the pieces are there!

[@toolfinderhq]

Sorry for not being clear - www.myforevernotes.com/ - see "asterick" section

[@marcovb7]

The Journal in this framework is intended to be a Forever Journal, inspired by Patrick from the New Perspectives channel www.youtube.com/@Patrick-NP Each Journal note, from Yearly notes to Daily notes, is meant to be reused each year. You're simply supposed to add a new Heading in the note for each year. Otherwise thanks for another interesting video!

[@gjtube37]

Thank you for the video. This looks great! Is this something that can be done on the Mac version of Apple Notes, and if so, can you make a video on how to set that up? Thank you!

[@Yasemin_werdeproduktiv]

You can do that on the Mac, of course :)

[@TonyTylerDraws]

This is a simple concept they I feel gets overly complicated by people. Theres a Home note. It links to other notes (Hubs) that cover broad subjects and they link back to the Home note. Hubs connect other notes as needed. You can also use smart folders to collect tagged notes into collections. Then there’s a daily journal. Each day has the year (2024, 2025, etc) as Headings. You list what happen that day. I dunno. It’s pretty straight forward.

[@chaskinsnc]

I like the over all concept but creating on my ipad, the iCloud Notes links do not find the document. Is this a known issue with the web version?

[@amiradj9695]

FYI with IOS18 you can do all of that directly inside Apple Notes, ie: hashtags, linking notes, subcategories, etc...

[@herpaherpaderpaderpa]

And where is the link to the shortcut mentioned in the video?

[@jmo7546]

I can’t find it either

[@AmberlynJenkins]

I don’t see the link to your setup I’m interested to see it could you please send me the link

[@JohnnyGarton]

What is the point of the asterisk text replacement?

[@BecomingLeoTorres]

You use that asterisk for notes you want to stand out when you’re looking through your list.

[@AndreaFaggion]

The guy saw how people use Obsidian and implemented the same practices in Apple Notes.

[@karmacarms]

I could not find your homepage shortcut in the description, did you remove it?

[@bitshous]

Anything like this for Google Keep.?

[@MrCabimero]

Right out the gate- I can't find the shortcut for Home page. Can you lead me ?

[@MarwaArigat]

How did u set it up? Its not in the description below

[@caseymandell]

How do you actually get and install Forever Notes? 14:

[@wadee3183]

Love this but the instructions jump around and aren’t easy to follow - and I do this kind of stuff for a living. Really appreciate putting this together. Background music didn’t bother me at all 😉

[@toolfinderhq]

Thanks for feedback

[@brainscott]

This can be applied elsewhere as well.

[@yuchoob]

On a train, in a dentist's waiting room. Possibilities are endless. Wherever you want to be doing busy work instead of work, you can do this there.

[@barrycrites8437]

I use Apple notes because it’s simple, if I wanted all that complexity I would just use Roam or Notion

[@TonyTylerDraws]

Forever Notes is not that complicated. It’s just links and backlinking and using tags to organize smart folders. It’s just an outline of _how_ to do that. He didn’t get the journal; the idea is that you use add the year in each day. So today has 2024 and in one year it’ll have 2025. The years are headings so you can collapse them as needed. I would suggesting going to the Forever Notes channel rather than a secondary aourse

[@avegaiii]

@@TonyTylerDraws Or you can just use folders and sub folders, it's the same thing. This is a solution to a problem that never existed

[@timsocialmedia6630]

Where is the Shortcut?

[@botistelockhart5078]

It’s on the website in the description

[@yuchoob]

Finding it is half the fun. Spending valuable time you'll never get back d*cking around with links, tags and shortcuts instead of being productive is the other half.

[@jingtu]

Explain it to me like I'm a 6 year old - not where, but WHAT is the link to the shortcut? Can you please put that link in the reply?

[@Martinidog]

Mate can you turn off auto-focus on your camera. Its a killer trying to follow the video, like my glasses have fallen off my head.

[@toolfinderhq]

Thanks, noted.

[@BecomingLeoTorres]

@@toolfinderhqit’s not that bad.

[@InternationalBigshot]

The beauty of Apple Notes is that it is simple. If people wanted to complicate it with all this nonsense they could simply pick another app. As another commenter already noted, this 'system' is for people who don't have anything else to do.

[@BecomingLeoTorres]

I can see why you would think that way. The set up is the complicated part. It’s a system that makes sense when you are practicing it. For me it felt like picking a lock… the set up is hard, but once you drop all the pins, you unlock something and the door opens. I use it every day. Hubs are especially awesome for me, I love logging my ideas and thoughts in and having them accessible this way. One thing I notice about it, it’s not for lazy thinkers. It’s like not wanting to shop for less at IKEA because you don’t want to build the product yourself, even though you know that the product is practical and will help you be organized.

[@yuchoob]

Busy work for people who aren't busy doing work.

[@InternationalBigshot]

Precisely!

[@BecomingLeoTorres]

I promise you it’s not. It only looks that way. Forever Notes is not like buying cake at the store, this is baking. Some people want to bake, others want to spend money on a cake that’s already made.

[@yuchoob]

​@@BecomingLeoTorres Some people spend their time in an endless pursuit of the perfect "productivity" system and folder structures and tag setups and philosophies to organize their information, and try to hook together various combinations of apps and APIs and shortcuts, and others still make a career out of describing such options, reviewing apps and interviewing productivity gurus. And it's in this part of the universe that people sit inventing things like "forever notes". And then there are people who actually want to get something meaningful done before they die. The latter get up off their arses and go and do things.

[@BecomingLeoTorres]

@@yuchoob everyone’s different everyone organizes information differently. I don’t believe anyone is saying that this system fits all. If it’s not for you it’s not for you.

[@yuchoob]

@@BecomingLeoTorres No. It's for people who use up all their time doing this instead of being productive. It's a hobby for some people, and some succeed in monetizing it on KZbin. Everyone else gets on with their work and lives and doesn't fanny around with ridiculous, convoluted, flash-in-the-pan "productivity" tactics every time a new app comes out, or someone has some idea like "forever notes." These things aren't productivity strategies. These are strategies for some people to feel like they are productive, which is to mistake the map for the terrain.

[@piggyshamlls]

it has been day 18 for me since i saw this framework. I deleted all my other apps.

[@toolfinderhq]

Bold, love it

[@yuchoob]

"You could have a directory-like experience." God, help us.

[@michaelcharlesparsons671]

To me, the most compelling thing about this system is the concept of setting up a Home page (as well as the heavy asterisk for search navigation) with links to key notes / folders. If you just combine those principles with smart folders, then the concept makes a bit more sense as an easy-to-setup system to manage & access notes. I should note that the Home concept could simplified even further by using a Shortcuts selection menu, or having the individual "hubs" as Shortcut actions in a folder on your home screen (it does seem a bit superfluous to always have to access a note in order to access another note. You could just create Shortcut links to each of the section notes), but this way does seem to make sense if you have a lot of categories....

[@p6till8s]

Do you know, if there is a way to create direct links to folders, intelligent folders and smart tags in the ✱ Home Note?

[@golfcity320]

@@p6till8sI asked this a few weeks ago and it’s not possible at this moment, maybe Apple may introduce this at some point. I’m still trying to figure this out.

[@oiriri8289]

10 percent battery

[@FodensTrom]

Or you could just watch the original videos by the creator (who doesn’t say Asterix rather than Asterisk)

[@poland153]

lets go francescoooooo

[@toolfinderhq]

Let's go!

[@M31994113]

You lost me at the beginning…how did you create the large asterisk??

[@Fabiennely]

i was confused too. searched it on google and just copied one I found.

[@toolfinderhq]

It is shown in the video. Here's a good guide though: www.myforevernotes.com/

[@gardriel8208]

You are bot supposed to recreate the journal each year. Just make Headings inside each journal note 2023, 2024, 2025 etc.

[@yuchoob]

I set up some forever notes and now the b*stard things won't go away!

[@Brettspielblog]

You have edited the video, didn't you? When you recognized the bad autofocus you could have re-shot those scenes. Would take an additional 30 minutes of work, but the video here lasts forever. It's a pity since the content itself is good, but it's not fun to watch.

[@toolfinderhq]

Thanks Brett, yes I noticed after publish, I did leave a note, but next time I will pay more attention.

[@BecomingLeoTorres]

Let’s cut creators some slack, not everyone is a professional videographer and editor. This is challenging to do. The info is there and it’s valuable. There is always room for growth.

[@WhateverNL]

Kill the background music! Stopped watching because of it.

[@AlexKahl]

Yes it is really distracting

[@fanovaohsmuts]

He should run an A/B test to see if people who hate the music are a vocal minority or majority.

[@yuchoob]

@@fanovaohsmuts No, he should just not include music if the idea is that he wants people to listen to what he is saying. When you're on the phone to someone, do you have a little speaker next to you, piping in background tunes for maximum enjoyment? Or, not really because you want the other person to listen to what you're saying?

[@toolfinderhq]

Noted. I’ll reduce next time.

[@denisemc607]

Or just lower the volume so it is less intrusive- thanks for the review. I wish AN had reminders like EN and hand written annotions on the note (like GoodNotes) e.g text, images not a separate section to add arrows, highlights or circle a block

[@irandude1655]

Music is super annoying. Can you repost this without the annoying music please.

[@toolfinderhq]

Noted for next time.

[@BecomingLeoTorres]

That’s not fair. The music isn’t bad. If you knew how challenging it is to make these videos you’d be a bit nicer. I came here for the value this info offers. I ignore the rest. I hate when people slurp their coffees, but who am I to tell another person not to slurp simply because I don’t like it?

[@mauricioflores3732]

Nah too complicated for taking notes 😅

[@hudonedem8517]

It’s for organization and easy navigation. You set it up, which is easier to use than other apps. It’s pretty straightforward and easy to find things

[@BecomingLeoTorres]

I am wondering if you need help with it because it was not complicated for me.

[@ichapman8878]

Confusing.✌🏼

[@akshdzn]

1 view In 1 min. Bro fell off

[@toolfinderhq]

Ey?

[@yuchoob]

@@toolfinderhq The bro fell off, man. Pay attention. He fell right off!

[@mr.octopus-plag]

I’m a McLaren fan, can you please redo the video with a proper (and more powerful) background? 🥸

[@toolfinderhq]

This one hurt 😢 Can I convert you?