Forever Notes (2024) [/]
Jun 23 2025
Forever ✱ Notes is a way to turn Apple Notes into an information store. Created by Matthis Hilse the web site goes over how you'd configure Apple Notes: you're basically creating one note per day of year (and that note will have subheadings one for each year), a note per quarter and month so it's easier to drill down, a shortcut you install that goes to the today's note, using hashtags to organize information.
The web site has good screen shots and fairly clear step by step to setup Apple Notes. Not so much on how to actually use it though there are discussion groups to learn more.
I did this and I think it's more organized than I had it before. I wasn't into using hashtags but now it makes more sense. Setting up was rather tedious since you have to add the forward/back/month/quarter links for each daily note, though easier since key notes have the special ✱ at the beginning which makes it easier to search (Forever Notes also tells you to setup a keyboard shortcut that converts double * automatically to ✱.
This is a nice way to turn Apple Notes into something more useful since you already have Apple Notes and don't need a third party app that has macOS and iOS/iPad OS versions.
The web site has good screen shots and fairly clear step by step to setup Apple Notes. Not so much on how to actually use it though there are discussion groups to learn more.
I did this and I think it's more organized than I had it before. I wasn't into using hashtags but now it makes more sense. Setting up was rather tedious since you have to add the forward/back/month/quarter links for each daily note, though easier since key notes have the special ✱ at the beginning which makes it easier to search (Forever Notes also tells you to setup a keyboard shortcut that converts double * automatically to ✱.
This is a nice way to turn Apple Notes into something more useful since you already have Apple Notes and don't need a third party app that has macOS and iOS/iPad OS versions.