Hi, this is Gary with MacMost.com.
Let's take a look at Highlights and Notes in iBooks for Mac.
So let's go into a book here, in iBooks on the Mac, and let's take a look at some text.
Let's say I want to highlight something so I can refer to it later.
I can use the cursor here and select text.
Once I do that I get this little menu that pops up and gives me several different types
of highlighting.
I can do colors, or red underline.
Let's just do a standard yellow there.
If I want to change it later all I have to do is click anywhere in this highlighted area
and it comes up and I can change it, I can remove the highlight, just switch between
which ever one I want.
I can also add a Note.
That will create this post-it note kind of thing here and I can add some text to it.
Now when I click off of it you can see that the note goes away but it appears as this
box here.
So I can select the highlight still, and I can remove the note, or remove the note and
the highlight, or I can click on the note itself to reveal the note to see what I wrote.
Now let's flip through a few pages here and create another note.
Here let's just do a yellow highlight for that.
I can go to the top and there is a way I can review all of my notes.
I click on this icon here and I can see all of the notes.
It shows me the highlight, this is the part that is highlighted, underneath any note that
I added.
I can also add a note.
I didn't put one initially for this highlighted area so I can add it right here and you can
see it is going to appear on the right when I'm done.
You can see it appear right here.
So I can access my notes either of these two ways.
If I had multiple highlights in multiple chapters I would have chapters with these little reveal
triangle here so I can kind of go through my notes for an entire book and see what I
have highlighted.
Of course if I want to jump to it I can click on the page number and it will take me right
to where any of these notes are and it gives me the time of when I made this note.
I can also search through the notes so it will show me the notes and the highlighted
text and I can search through and find things very quickly.
So if you are looking to anecdote something you are reading, make some important notes
so you can remember things later this is a great way to do it.
This, of course, syncs over iCloud so if you are using iBooks say on your iPad or iPhone
or multiple Macs these notes will appear throughout all of the copies of your book in all of these
different platforms.
Now this works basically the same way in Textbook.
So I'm reviewing a textbook, one that was made for iBooks, so it has features in it,
for instance glossary terms.
So here you can see I can click on astronomy for a glossary term.
I can also highlight text just as before and it will appear in my notes here on the left.
I can do all the same stuff as I did before.
It is also going to incorporate, anything I highlight, any notes I had, to the study
guides.
So you see I've this Study here, I click on that study button, and in addition to five
different glossary terms that are already added here by the creators of the book, I've
got the area I highlighted and if I Flip Card you can see it uses the note I added.
So I can create my own study cards here by simply adding highlights with notes.
The rest of them are actually glossary terms.
You can see at the top.
So they are things that already existed in the book.
Two other things I want to show you here.
One is that in Textbooks only, you can use the Show Notes in Margin to actually put the
notes over here rather than having them as a little box that you have to click on or
having the panel on the side.
Another thing in both the textbooks and the regular books you can use the Command key
and the cursor will change to crosshairs and you can quickly highlight things.
So you don't have to do the multiple steps to highlight some text.
You can just use Command and then drag.
You can still click on it later and change the style.
Now while it would be nice to have an export option for your notes you can actually select
them, select individual ones or Command click to select multiple, and then you can Copy
and then Paste them into something else like, for instance, TextEdit.
If I paste them into TextEdit here I get all the information that's been highlighted and
the notes as well as a little bit of information at the bottom.