Manage Your Notepad
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Manage Your Notepad

You can sort your Notepad items by category and put them into different folders, delete unwanted items, and share items with other people.

When viewing a list of items or an individual item in Notepad, touch the status bar at the top of the screen to quickly return to the first item or the beginning of the item you are viewing.

Use App Lock for Notepad or Lock a Note

You can apply App Lock to Notepad or set a password for a note to protect your privacy.

Enable the app lock for Notepad: Go to Settings > Security > App Lock, enter the lock screen password or customise the app lock password as prompted, and then turn on the switch next to Notepad.

Lock a note: Open the note you need to lock in Notepad, go to > Add lock, and follow the onscreen instructions. To unlock your note, go to > Remove lock.

If your device supports fingerprint or face unlock, you can use fast authentication by performing the following: Go to Notepad > > Settings > Note lock, then enable Unlock with Fingerprint ID and Unlock with Face Recognition.

Sort Notepad Items by Category

You can sort the Notepad items into different folders by category and add labels in different colours.

Sort Notepad items using the following methods:
  • On the All notes screen, swipe left on a note, select or to move this note to the top, or add a star icon to it.
  • On the All notes or All to-dos screen, swipe left on an item, touch , and select a category for it.
  • Touch and hold a note or to-do item, select the ones you want to classify under the same category, then touch to move them to the target category.

Items in an Exchange account cannot be moved.

Share Notepad Items

You can share Notepad items in the following ways:
  • To share a single note or to-do item, open the one you want to share from the All notes or All to-dos screen, then touch and share it as prompted.

    Notes can be shared by touching As image, As text, Export as document, or To another device.
    Handwritten notes do not support Export as document, and other types of notes can be exported into TXT or HTML files when using Export as document. You can view saved notes as follows: Open Files, search for and touch Documents, then touch Notepad.
  • To share multiple notes, access the All notes screen, touch and hold a note, select the ones you want to share, then touch and share them as prompted.

Print Notepad Items

  1. On the All notes screen, open the item you want to print.

  2. Go to > Print, then select a printer and configure printing settings as prompted.

Delete Notepad Items

You can delete Notepad items using either of the following methods:
  • On the All notes or All to-dos screen, swipe left on an item, and touch to delete it.

  • Touch and hold a note or to-do item you want to delete, select or drag over the check boxes of any other notes or to-do items you want to delete as well, then touch .

To restore a deleted Notepad item, touch All notes or All to-dos, select the item you want to restore in Recently deleted, then touch .

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