MacOS – Change width of a column in a table in Notes.app on a Mac

In column view in the Finder, you can resize columns by positioning the mouse pointer over over the thin line that separates column panes, and dragging it to the left to make it narrower or to the right to make it wider.

To make the Finder remember the new width, hold down the option key(⌥) while dragging the pane separator to the desired width.

The best documentation I can find on this from Apple alludes to the fact that holding down option resizes "all columns at once" but does not explicitly say that this makes the change persistent.

You must have a mouse plugged in. In System Preferences > General, under the "Show Scroll bars" section, there are three options:

• Automatically based on mouse or trackpad
• When scrolling
• Always

Each act differently.

Automatically... with a mouse plugged in will show the scroll bars. When you are just on the trackpad, the scroll bars will be hidden until you scroll. This is the default setting.

When scrolling will always hide the scrollbars unless you are scrolling. If you are on a MacBook, this is probably what you are most used to seeing, so turn this on if you use a mouse occasionally and hate the look of the scroll bars. (This is how I have mine set).

Always will always show the scrollbars, so if you like them, they will always be there for you.

[Edit: I just saw that there was a response up at the top. Hopefully this here will help someone searching to find the answer quicker.]