Notebook

The Field Notes home screen: new notes, the camera, folders, search, and moving notes around.

The notebook is where Field Notes opens. Notes are listed with the most recently changed first, each with a thumbnail of what's in it, alongside your folders.

The notebook.

Folders

Tap a folder to open it. The number is how many notes are inside.

Notes

Tap a note to open it. Press and hold for its menu.

New note

Starts an empty note, ready to draw.

Shutter

Opens the camera. The photos you take become a new note.

Browse

Opens a drawing from Files: a note from somewhere else, or a drawing from iPad or Mac.

Search and More

Search finds notes by name. More has Select, New folder, Help and About, and Feedback.

A note's menu

Press and hold a note for:

  • Select, to pick several notes at once and move, share or delete them together.
  • Rename and Move to folder.
  • Take a photo or Choose from library, to add photos to that note without opening it.
  • Move to iCloud, for a note still kept only on this iPhone.
  • Share and Delete. A delete can be undone from the notebook straight after.
A note pressed in the notebook, its menu open: Select, Rename, Move to folder, Take a photo, Choose from library, Share, Delete
Press and hold a note for its menu.

Folders

Choose More › New folder to make one, then move notes into it from their menus. Removing a folder doesn't delete anything: the notes in it go back to the notebook.