Leopard Mail: How to Hide or Remove Notes from Inbox

Contributor Icon Contributed by davak Date Icon October 23, 2007  
Tag Icon 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
    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.
  • vessoul1
    this did not work for me, any other suggestions?
  • batifan
    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
    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)
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