Apple Notes got a power user feature in iOS 18 that’s rare in other apps

Apple Notes used to be a fairly barebones tool, best known for being used by celebrities to apologize. But a few years back, Apple started investing heavily in making Notes a worthy competitor with third-party alternatives. And in iOS 18, Apple Notes gained a power user feature that’s especially hard to find elsewhere: collapsible sections. My long search for a notes app with one key feature I’ve tried a lot of notes apps over the years, paying close attention to every worthwhile debut on the App Store. And no matter how powerful some of those third-party apps could be, the vast majority of them lacked a key feature I’d always wanted: collapsible sections. In prior jobs, I often needed to hide or show various portions of a note, largely as a way to keep longer notes more organized and easy to skim. To prove just how desperate I got, at one point I was even using OmniOutliner for this one reason alone. I didn’t need an outlining app, but for specific notes, I would create them in ... Read full article.