The revamped Notes app in El Capitan makes a compelling case to join that short list. Evernote for Mac is a world-class note-taking service, for example, and OneNote from Microsoft does a solid job of helping you take, organize, and access your notes across multiple platforms.

Notes: You don't have to look far to find an excellent notes app for OS X. Mail now watches for names and events in messages and prompts you to add them to your contacts or calendar. For example, you can swipe to mark an email as read or unread or to delete it. Mail: In El Capitan, you can make better use of gestures to manage mail, borrowing moves used with Mail on iOS. In El Capitan, Spotlight casts its net much further, pulling in weather forecasts, stock news, sport scores, public transit information, and more from across the Web. In El Capitan, when you bring up Mission Control, your windows spread out across the screen with no overlap, making it quicker to find what you are looking for.ĭiscovery: Spotlight - OS X's search tool - can find files, apps, and images on your Mac and can show results from Wikipedia, iTunes, iBooks, the Mac App Store, and more. Mission Control: Spaces are now better organized in Mission Control, which helps you manage and locate apps and open windows. Click one, and it fills the other side of your screen. A collection of open windows gathers on the other side of your screen. Click and hold the green full-screen button, and drag and drop the window on one side of your screen. In El Capitan's full-screen mode, you can display two apps side by side. In Yosemite, you can make an app window fill the screen by clicking the green full-screen button in the top-left corner of its window. Split View and full screen: Much of what's new in El Capitan focuses on how you work with apps and files. (Along with our review, check out our visual tour of OS X El Capitan.) Pros And the latest edition of Apple's desktop operating system - OS X El Capitan version 10.11 - while not as alluring as candy-coated buttons or as dramatic as major surgery - continues to push the OS forward with a collection of helpful improvements, including better windows management, much improved apps, and broader search capabilities. The steady, not revolutionary, progression of OS X over the past few years reflects a maturing OS.

Since the release of Mac OS X 10.0 in 2001, we've seen lickable interfaces, witnessed a high-stakes heart transplant from PowerPC to Intel chips, and received an informal education in big-cat species.

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