Leopard Mail: How to Hide or Remove Notes from Inbox
Contributed by David Kirk 
Tagged: Mac OS X Leopard By default, Mail 3.0 puts all new Notes into the inbox. As all notes can be found through the Notes link in the Reminder section, this is redundant. Here is how to keep your Notes from cluttering your inbox.
Notes and To Do Reminders are two features that have been added to Mail in OS X 10.5. For some strange reason, Notes (but not To Do items) show up as new messages in the user’s Inbox.
Here’s an example of how a note looks in the Inbox:
Here is how to remove (or hide) these notes from your Inbox.
1. In Mail, click the Mail menu item
2. Select Preferences
3. Click the Composing tab
4. Change the dropdown box in Create Notes & To Do’s in: to On My Mac
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Phil said on September 15, 2009
In Mail 4.1 (and perhaps in Mail 4.0) just uncheck the “Show notes in Inbox” for each email account in the Mail Preferences pane.
Anonymous said on September 24, 2009
this did not work for me, any other suggestions?
Anonymous said on October 6, 2009
I found that the solution in the original post no longer works, but that the solution posted by Phil as a comment works fine. Very happy as that was suddenly very annoying!
Name said on November 19, 2009
The original post does not work… but as the OP suggested in the comments section.. you can click into the accounts section of your prefs, click the tab labeled “mailbox behaviors”, and go through each account (if more than 1) and ensure the “show notes in inbox” check box is unchecked. (just a bit more info than the comments / suggestions)
Anonymous said on December 23, 2009
also didn’t work for me. Notes still appear in my inbox – very annoying
Anonymous said on December 23, 2009
Brilliant – just seen that ’show notes in inbox’ was also checked. Now unchecked and it now works after also following the recommended changes in ‘Composing’ tab
Anonymous said on January 2, 2010
Thanks, Phil!
Anonymous said on March 1, 2010
perfect, thank you!
Anonymous said on March 17, 2010
this clue didn’t work. to remove from inbox Preferences > Accounts > Mailbox Behaviors > Notes. Uncheck “Store notes in Inbox”. If you have more than one account, do this for each account.
Anonymous said on May 6, 2010
I can´t see notes (mail 4.2) when I clcik on button no note is created, same as doing it from the File menu, in reminders only to do appear
Darkchip Geo said on June 13, 2010
Thk’s, very usefully.
Mknagge said on June 18, 2010
Tks, it worked
Barbara_NY said on June 29, 2010
That worked best. Thanks for sharing.
Ariadne said on August 1, 2010
I had that originally unchecked, as Phil suggested. So this doesn’t work for me. Any other possibilities? Also, I recently noticed that my leopard laptop has crack-split on the lower edge, which I learned is a Mac problem rather than anything I could have done. But my warrantee has past. Shouldn’t Apple take responsibility anyway? This just happened a few weeks ago. Has anyone experienced this?
Cheer76 said on August 12, 2010
This helps a lot :)
I would like to mention, that if you have already created a note and it is still visible in the inbox after making the above changes, one needs to delete the note entirely, and recreate it. The second time around, you will not find it in your inbox, only in the correct Notes link.
Tyrone said on August 19, 2010
just go to Mail Preferences, there’s a checkbox in each Account setting to store notes in inbox
Darrin Snider said on September 10, 2010
If you still haven’t fixed it, what I found you have to do is select the notes folder under “Reminders” and delete them all so that they are in the trash, but then drag them from the trash back into the notes folder. This resets their location to solely the notes folder, and removes them from all inboxes they were associated with.
Elin said on September 16, 2010
thanks!
vic said on February 20, 2011
This is what worked for me. Thanks
christy price said on July 29, 2011
Thanks, Phil. Easy solution, but one I couldn’t find on my own!
christy price said on July 29, 2011
Thanks, Phil. Easy solution, but one I couldn’t find on my own!
Harvey Carruth said on December 2, 2011
The post by Anonymous on March 17, 2010 worked fine for my Version 4.5 Mail. I found navigation to the appropriate preference challenging without the specific path provided.
“To remove Notes from inbox: Preferences > Accounts > Mailbox Behaviors > Notes. Uncheck “Store notes in Inbox”. If you have more than one account, do this for each account.”