

Now, as you start typing, your first line will automatically be formatted as a title-if appropriate-and the rest, as the body.
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Since Notes's original launch on the Mac as part of OS X Mountain Lion, the app has gone from a simple, plain Marker Felt text app to what's now a far more robust note-taking system. Notesīoth of Apple's up-and-coming operating systems - iOS 9 and OS X El Capitan-include a new and improved Notes app. I'm really looking forward to using it full-time come the fall. Yosemite made it significantly more functional, but natural language and the new results engine promises to make it integral to the Mac experience. I've tried LaunchBar, Alfred, and Quicksilver, but none of them ever stuck: Spotlight has always been my go-to. That means it'll be even easier to find what we're looking for, no matter where it's contained. Thanks to a new CoreSpotlight API, developers can now make the content in their apps, including documents, messages, and more, available to Spotlight as well. You can even move and resize the Spotlight window now, so if you want to keep using it while you work, you don't have to worry about it overlaying what you're working on. I'd still love Apple's personal assistant on the Mac-as would accessibility advocates everywhere-but this is a tremendous start. It's the way Siri has always worked for voice input and I've wanted it in text for years. "This week" constrains the time period, so I don't see anything older than the last few days, and "El Cap" means I want something with those words in it. That means you simply type the way you would talk-"Documents I worked on this week containing El Cap" tells Spotlight I'm only looking for documents, so don't show me mail or web hits or anything else. Natural language for everyoneĬritically, you can now access all of it using natural language. The suggested results engine, which debuted last year, has been enhanced with several new data sources, including weather, stocks, web video, and sports across MLB, NHL, NFL, NBA, WNBA, college football, college basketball, and many European soccer leagues. Now, El Cap strives to put it front-and-center in our workflows as well. OS X Yosemite saw an all new Spotlight design that put Apple's search and action bar front-and-center on our Macs. It sounds and looks ridiculous, but it's a natural extension of instinctive behavior and it works wonderfully. El Cap makes sure you'll spot your cursor by rapidly enlarging it until it's impossible to miss. We've all stared at our screens at one time or another and rapidly shaken our mouse pointer in hopes the movement would help our eyes lock onto it. It's an incredibly fluid experience and makes the sometimes mixed workspace metaphors-which were already improved in Yosemite-into an even more usable, coherent system.
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From there, you can drop the window where you want it, either full screen, onto an existing full screen app to create a Split View, or onto a new or existing desktop Space. There's also a new draggable Mission Control shortcut coming to El Cap: Just pull any window to the top of the screen, then drag a little more to reveal the Spaces Bar. From here, you can also rearrange screens and remove desktop spaces. Mouse over the bar, and it expands to thumbnails so you can immediately, visually identify all your workspaces and switch to whichever one you need.

The new Spaces Bar replaces the window management bar of yore, listing (in label form) your current desktops alongside all currently open full screen and split screen apps. But once you're in Mission Control, you have a new way of interacting with your windows. Calling Mission ControlĪ three finger swipe upwards on your trackpad, a tap of the Mission Control key (F3) from your keyboard, or a click of the Mission Control icon with your mouse will still take you right to the main view, just as before. That helps keep everything oriented as well as accessible.
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It respects the position of your windows as well, so if an app was on the left side of the desktop, it'll be on the left side of Mission Control. As such, all your windows appear in a single, quickly scannable layer. I tried pretty much everything above for a token app called SecurID we use for VPN access for work.Floating windows are all well and good, but El Cap is furthering Yosemite's design principles with a more-flattened Mission Control view.
