Dorchester — Sep 12th 2023

Euan, rather than a Keynote presentation showed us his Notes and how he manages them, the key being that you can copy almost anything onto a note, photo, pdf, hand written note, URL etc. Just like the Finder, you can have folders within folders. Euan clearly uses Notes to a greater extent than most of us so being able to retrieve information is critical. The search facility within the Notes app is a very effective, by default offering various search options such as Shared Notes, Locked Notes, Notes with Scanned Documents etc. though you can search on a single word, which will include searching in every attachment. Now that the newer OS can recognise text in a picture, Euan show that searching for word in Notes included the label on a photo of a bottle.

With such a vast collection of notes covering multiple subjects, Euan also makes use of Tags. Again very similar to the use of tags in the Finder, also strongly recommended by Euan, in Notes you create a tag by adding a hash # in front of the word e.g. #energy. You can add as many tags to note and then search using the tag e.g. search #energy and all notes with that tag will be listed.

With reduced numbers in the second short half of the meeting, David Parnell showed us how to create XY graphs in Numbers. If readings taken over say random dates are recorded in a heading column they will be displayed without reference to the different time periods between readings, just as equal steps, but when recorded in a non heading column they are displayed correctly. He also showed how two graphs can be overlaid given one common axis.

We then had a lively discussion about the balance between privacy and control of social media following a short update by David Moon on the EU Digital Services Act which has just started to be introduced.

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