HOW TO | TAKE THINGS FURTHER with Fetchnotes

1 Tagging

To make your notes easier to organise in Fetchnotes and return to later, Fetchnotes uses hashtags, in much the same way that Twitter does. These are keywords in your notes, which enable you to group similar things, or find all your notes on a given topic with ease. You could, for example, use a hashtag for your weekly team meeting, and others for different areas of your work. Add hashtags anywhere in your notes simply by typing the # symbol directly before any word.

2 Finding tagged notes

Go back to the Fetchnotes home screen, with the list of all your notes showing the first few lines of each. Notice how any hashtags are coloured blue. You can tap any one of these blue tags to search for all notes containing that tag. When you tap a hashtag, it appears in the top-left. You can filter your search further by tapping additional tags, or tapping the + next to the initial tag and choosing from the list, then tap the tick in the top-right. To remove a hashtag from your search, tap the X next to it.

3 More ways to search

You can also access the list of hashtags by tapping the magnifying glass in the top-right corner of the Fetchnotes home screen. When you do this, you also see a search bar appear in the top left. Tap this to search for a particular word or phrase in any of your notes. You can search for a combination of hashtags and text by first filtering by hashtag, and then adding a text search term by using the search bar. Note that you have to do it in this order: filtering by hashtag clears any text search.

4 Sharing a note

There are various ways to share your notes; the first is by emailing, messaging or tweeting the contents of a note. To do this, open the note, then tap the share symbol in the top right corner and select the method you’d like to use. Alternatively, you can share a note with someone else who uses Fetchnotes. This notifies them that you’ve shared a note with them and lets them edit the note you shared directly within Fetchnotes. Like the hashtags, sharing uses a Twitter-like system.

5 @Username

When you’re typing text into a note, you may notice a big @ symbol, marked ‘share’, above the keyboard. This is how you share a note with other Fetchnotes users. You need to know their Fetchnotes username (if they don’t know it, they can see it by tapping the three-line symbol in the top left of the home screen; their username appears in the top left corner). In your note, tap the ‘@ share’ button and type the person’s username. When you next tap the tick in the top-right, the note is shared.

6 Viewing edits

When the person you’ve shared a note with makes a change to it and taps the tick symbol, it’s pushed back to your device. In Fetchnotes, tap the three-line symbol in the topleft corner. In the bar that appears down the lefthand side, look below the Notifications heading. This shows you that the other person has edited your note. Tap the notification text to jump to the note in question and see what they’ve done. Your future edits show up in their Fetchnotes app in the same way.