How to disable Quick Note on Mac

Want to hide the Quick Notes feature on your Mac? This guide will explain the steps you will need to follow.

Your Mac has some really useful features designed to make your life easier.

You can use the Freeform app for your brainstorming sessions or use Mac shortcuts to automate your most frequent tasks.

You can even quickly open a note to jot down some ideas you don't want to forget using the Quick Note feature.

What is Quick Note on Mac?

Sometimes, however, this feature can become more of a hindrance than a help. You may find that you keep opening Quick Notes without meaning to. This will interrupt your workflow and prevent you from enjoying the latest episode of your favorite show.

If you're tired of notes appearing all over your Mac when you don't want them, here's how to disable Quick Note on your Mac.

Quick note is a feature that first appeared in macOS Monterey. It allows you to quickly take notes by providing a faster way to open a note than simply launching the Notes app.

This means you can write something down as soon as you think of it, just by moving the cursor to the appropriate part of the screen.

How to use Quick Note on Mac

How to use Quick Note on Mac? You can open a Quick Note using the Hot Corners feature on your Mac. By default, the Quick Note is set to the bottom-right corner of the screen.

To open a quick note on your Mac:

1. Move the mouse to the bottom right corner of the screen.
2. You will see the corner of a note appear.
   
3. Click on the note – your Quick Note will appear.
   
4. Type whatever you want into your Quick Note. When you're done, just close it – the changes will be saved automatically. Even if you don't close the current Quick Note, you can still return to it by moving the cursor to the bottom right corner.

How to open a new quick note each time

By default, the same Quick Note will open each time you move the mouse to the bottom right corner of the screen, allowing you to add more and more information to the note. However, you may prefer to create a new note each time to keep your ideas or information separate.

To always open a new Quick Note on your Mac:

1. Open the Grades application.
2. On the menu bar, click Grades.
   
3. Select settings.
   
4. Uncheck Always resume to the last quick note.
   
5. You will now create a new Quick Note each time you move your cursor to the bottom right corner.

How to disable Quick Note on Mac

If you find that you accidentally open a Quick Note while using your Mac, you can disable the feature. This means that even when the cursor is in the bottom right corner of the screen, Quick Note will not appear.

To turn off Quick Notes on your Mac:

1. click on the Litter icon in the menu bar.
   
2. Select System Settings.
   
3. From the menu on the left, choose Desktop and Dock.
   
4. Scroll to the bottom of the screen and click the button Hot Corners button.
   
5. Click the drop-down menu in the bottom right corner.
   
6. Select the Dash option at the bottom.
   
7. Click Done.
   
8. Quick Note will no longer appear when you move the cursor to the bottom right corner of the screen.

How to add a shortcut key for quick notes

If you want to use Quick Note occasionally, but it keeps appearing more often than you want, you can assign an additional shortcut key needed to make a Quick Note appear.

For example, you can change the settings so that you need to press and hold the button Command key when moving the cursor to the bottom right corner so that Quick Note appears. If you move the cursor to the corner without the hotkey pressed, Quick Note will not appear.

To add a shortcut key to Quick Note:

1. click on the Litter logo in the menu bar.
   
2. Click System Settings.
   
3. Select Desktop and Dock in the menu on the left.
   
4. Scroll to the bottom of the screen and click Hot Corners.
   
5. Select the drop-down menu in the bottom right corner.
   
6. Before making your selection, press and hold Cmd, Option, Shift, or Ctrl.
7. The options will now change to show the key you are holding in front of the hot corner options.
8. Select the Quick Note option, which will now have the shortcut key selected in front of it, and click Done.
   
9. Now Quick Note will only appear if you hold down the selected hotkey before moving the cursor to the bottom right corner.
10. If the cursor is already in the bottom right corner, holding down the hotkey will not cause a quick note to appear; you need to hold it down before moving the cursor to the corner.

Being Productive on Your Mac – How to Use Quick Note on Mac

Knowing how to disable Quick Note on Mac ensures you don't accidentally open Quick Notes when you don't want to.

You can choose to disable Quick Notes completely or add a hotkey so that Quick Notes don't appear accidentally.

There are many other great features on your Mac that you can take advantage of. You can learn how to use dictation on a Mac to save typing all the time.

You can learn how to use Stage Manager on Mac to quickly switch between applications. And you can be even more productive using some of the best productivity apps for Mac.