Apple's 'Instant Notes' Is a Must-Have on Your iPhone or iPad :: LifeHacker :: David Murphy | Education 2.0 & 3.0 | Scoop.it
I’m terrible at taking notes, only because I don’t have one of those fancy Samsung smartphones that lets you draw your thoughts right on the lock screen. Instead, I have to yell at a digital assistant—which sometimes gets it right—or I have to authenticate into my phone, pull up my notes app, start a new note, type in my thoughts, make sure the note saves correctly, et cetera. It’s a process, but one that can be a made a little bit easier by enabling iOS’ buried “Instant Notes” feature.

Turn this on, and you’ll be able to add a quick Notes icon to your iPhone or iPad’s Control Center. This means you won’t even have to fuss with unlocking your device in order to scribble down a quick thought. You can set your device to automatically pull up the last note you were working on, if you’d rather edit a larger, running list than create a new note each time you tap the button.

Via Jim Lerman, NextLearning, John Evans