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iPad User Guide

Export or print notes on iPad

In the Notes app, you can open a note in the Pages app and continue working. You can also export the note as a PDF or print the note.

Open a note in Pages

  1. Make sure your iPad has the latest version of Pages.

  2. Go to the Notes app 👁 Image
    on your iPad.

  3. Open the note you want to export.

  4. Tap 👁 the Share button
    ,     then tap Open in Pages.

Note: If the note is locked, you must unlock it before exporting the contents of the note to Pages. You can’t edit drawings in Pages. Content such as scanned documents and PDFs appear as thumbnail images in Pages. Tags, mentions, checklists, and links to notes aren’t active items in Pages. If a note is shared, the resulting Pages document isn’t shared.

Export a note as a PDF

You can create a PDF of a note, using the note’s current view settings for its attachments. In a note with a multipage PDF or scanned document, the exported PDF contains only the first page of the original PDF or scanned document.

  1. Go to the Notes app 👁 Image
    on your iPad.

  2. Open the note you want to export.

  3. Tap 👁 the Share button
    ,     then tap Markup.

  4. Mark up the pages in the exported PDF as needed, then tap Done to save the PDF.

Export a note as a Markdown file

You can export your notes as Markdown files to integrate your notes into writing, content, and other workflows that support Markdown.

  1. Go to the Notes app 👁 Image
    on your iPad.

  2. Open the note you want to export.

  3. Tap 👁 the Share button
    ,     tap Export as Markup, then choose how to send or save your note.

Print a note

  1. Go to the Notes app 👁 Image
    on your iPad.

  2. Open the note you want to print.

  3. Tap 👁 the Share button
    ,     tap 👁 the More button
    ,     then tap Print.

  4. Choose the printer and other options, then tap Print.

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