Manage your notes

When you open BlackBerry Notes, your notes are automatically synchronized with the notes in your work email account. While the app is open, notes are synchronized every ten minutes. You can swipe down on the list to force synchronization at any time. BlackBerry Notes supports Bluetooth keyboard navigation.
Note: You can view inline attachments and images in notes. Depending on the Microsoft Exchange Server version and the email client that you are using, some of the following limitations might occur in your environment:
  • Attachments can be viewed, they cannot be added to a note in the BlackBerry Notes app. To add an attachment to a note, you must add it in Office Web App 2013, 2016 or Office 365 after the note has already been created in BlackBerry Notes.
  • Inline attachments are not supported in the Outlook Web App or in Microsoft Outlook.
Do any of the following:

Task

Steps

Create a note
  1. Tap The Add icon .
  2. Type a title for the note.
  3. Type your note. Use the rich text toolbar below the text field to show or hide the keyboard and change font style, size, and color.
  4. Optionally, tap Notes and select a folder to save the note.
  5. Do one of the following:
    • To send the note in an email, tap The Send icon.
    • To save the note, tap Save icon.

Add an attachment to the note
  1. Tap The Attachment icon .
  2. Do one of the following:
    • To add an existing photo from the native photo repository, tap Photo library.
    • To take a picture, tap Take a picture and follow the on-screen prompts.

Add a note to a category
Tap the Categoriesfield, type the name of the category, and do any of the following:
  • If it is a new category, type the category name, tap away from the field, and then type a title and select a color for the category. Tap The Save icon.
  • If it is an existing category, tap the category in the returned list.

Sort your notes
Do any of the following:
  • Tap All Notes and tap the desired sort order (for example, by title, creation date, or last modified.
  • Tap The Ascend icon or The Descend icon.

Filter notes
  1. Tap Menu icon or swipe from the left edge.
  2. Tap a category, or folder to display only the notes in it on the main page. Tap All Notes to turn off the filter.

Synchronize notes folders

Tap Menu icon > Manage Synced Folders to enable or disable synchronization for all or selected folders.

Search for a note
  1. Tap Search icon > Search.
  2. In the Search Phrase field, type your search criteria.

Edit a note
  1. In the Notes list, tap a note that you want to edit.
  2. Make the necessary changes. To add a category, type the category name in the Categories field.
  3. Tap Add icon .

Delete a note
Do any of the following:
  • Tap the note that you want to delete and tap Trash icon .
  • If you want to delete multiple notes, tap and hold a note and then tap additional notes that you want to delete. Tap Trash icon.