Keep sticky notes on a conversation

Steps

1. Select the words

   In a conversation, select part of a message, as you would to copy it. Add note appears above your selection.

2. Choose Add note

   A note opens in the margin beside the words, which stay highlighted.

3. Type your thought

   Press Return on a Mac, or Enter on Windows and Linux, to save it. To start a new line instead, hold Shift as you press it.

4. Select Add to reply

   Point to the note and select Add to reply at its bottom. The note joins your message, and the note says In your reply. When you send, your message starts with the highlighted words as a quote, then your note.

Good to know

• To take a note on a whole message, point to the message and select the note button under its copy and Fork from here buttons. To take a note on the whole conversation, select New note at the top of the margin.
• Select a highlight in a message to go to its note.
• The sticky notes button at the top of the conversation shows how many notes it has. Select it to hide or show them. In a narrow window, notes float over the conversation’s edge, and show only when you select this button.
• To change a note, select its text and type. Press Esc to put back what it said before. A new note you haven’t typed in goes away when you press Esc.
• To delete a note, point to it and select the × in its corner.
• After you send a message with a note in it, the note says Sent. To take a note out of your message before you send it, select In your reply on the note, or the × on the note in your message.
• You can add several notes to one message. They’re quoted in the order you added them.
• Everyone in a shared project sees its notes, with the name of the person who wrote each one. Notes also come along when you sync the project to your other computers.
• Forking a conversation copies the notes on the messages it copies. Deleting a conversation deletes its notes.
• The iPhone app doesn’t show sticky notes.