How Apple Notes is secretly sabotaging your best ideas

Search fails because it can’t think like you do.

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If you rely solely on search, you’ll miss out on insights from seemingly unrelated notes.

Most search tools only find exact word matches, but they rarely understand context or synonyms. That’ll slow down your creative work.

Take Apple Notes. I love it and use it daily. But it’s got real limitations.

Check out this example.

If I search for “doorbell” in Apple Notes, it’ll find notes with this word. And if I search for “door”, it’ll do the same thing.

But if I search for “Bell”?

Nothing.

You and I know “door” and “bell” are related, but not Apple Notes.

The same problem happens for compound words like lightbulb, sunflower, starfish, or rainbow.