Help ▸ Writing

Format text

Mac, iPad and iPhoneFree

Choose a style to format your note. Soot writes the Markdown for you, so the note stays an ordinary file you can open in other apps.

Where the styles are

On the Mac, choose from the Format menu, or click Format (Aa) in the toolbar.
On iPhone, tap Bold or Italic in the bar above the keyboard, or tap Format (Aa) there for every other style.
On iPad, tap Format (Aa) at the top right of the note. Bold and Italic sit beside it when the note is wide enough.

Bold, italic, strikethrough and code

Select the text you want to style.
On the Mac, choose Format ▸ Bold, Italic, Strikethrough or Code. On iPhone, tap Bold or Italic in the bar above the keyboard, or tap Format (Aa) for Strikethrough and Code. On iPad, tap Format (Aa), then the style.

To take a style off, select the text and choose the same style again. With nothing selected, the style applies to what you type next. On iPhone and iPad, if the cursor is inside a word, Soot applies the style to that word instead.

Headings

Put the cursor in the line you want as a heading, then:

On the Mac, choose Format ▸ Heading, then Heading 1 to Heading 6.
On iPhone, tap Heading in the bar above the keyboard and choose Heading 1, Heading 2 or Heading 3. For Heading 4 to Heading 6, tap Format (Aa), then More headings.
On iPad, tap Format (Aa), then H1, H2 or H3, or More headings.

To turn a heading back into ordinary text, choose Body Text from Format ▸ Heading on the Mac, or tap Format (Aa), then Body, on iPhone and iPad.

Lists and checklists

Put the cursor in a line, or select several lines. On the Mac, choose Format ▸ Bullet List, Numbered List or Task List. On iPhone and iPad, tap Format (Aa), then Bulleted, Numbered or Checklist.

Press Return to start the next item. Press Return on an empty item to end the list.
A numbered list renumbers itself when you add or remove an item.
To indent an item, or reduce its indent, press Tab or Shift-Tab on the Mac. On iPhone, tap Indent or Outdent in the bar above the keyboard. On iPad, you can reduce an item’s indent by pressing Backspace at the start of its text, but you can’t indent it.
To tick a checklist item, click or tap its box.

Quotes, callouts and code blocks

On the Mac, choose Format ▸ Quote, Callout or Code Block. On iPhone and iPad, tap Format (Aa), then Quote, Callout or Code under Lists and blocks. A code block keeps text exactly as you type it.

A callout is a tinted box for something that should stand out. Choose its type (Note, Tip, Important, Warning or Caution) from the Callout menu on the Mac, or from the row that appears when you tap Callout on iPhone and iPad.

Links and footnotes

To link some text to a web page, choose Format ▸ Link… on the Mac, or tap Insert (+), then Link, on iPhone and iPad. To link to another note, see Link to a note or a heading.

For a footnote, choose Format ▸ Insert ▸ Footnote on the Mac, or tap Insert (+), then Footnote. Soot adds the footnote’s number where the cursor was, and moves the cursor to the footnote at the end of the note, ready for you to type.

Paste from other apps

When you paste text from Apple Notes, TextEdit or Pages, Soot keeps its headings, bold, italic, strikethrough, links, tables and pictures.

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