Comments on: notes on my iphone

Question: notes on my iphone

femmme — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 16:30:30 -0800

transfer of notes on iphone

I upgrades my firmware and I lost my notes. Gratefully I emailed all my notes to myself in case this were to happen. Now I have the notes on my email. Is there a way to transfer them back as notes on my iphone w/o retyping all of them? I'm pretty desperate- help!:)

By: Blazecock Pileon

Blazecock Pileon — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 16:43:20 -0800

You could copy and paste them into a Notes replacement application on your desktop. Then resync your iPhone.

By: Blazecock Pileon

Blazecock Pileon — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 16:45:52 -0800

Note that I don't have any relationship with the developer of Evernote. It's just that it is free (for most usage purposes) and it has desktop clients, so that you can create notes on your computer. Apple's iPhone Notes.app is pretty weak — as you're finding out — and I recommend avoiding its use whenever possible.

By: wheat

wheat — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 17:00:43 -0800

I'd go with Evernote. I've been using the free version for a while, and it's solid.

By: DefendBrooklyn

DefendBrooklyn — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 17:11:48 -0800

With Evernote I couldn't get past the fact that they store everything on the server and you have to connect every time you run the app and access an item. Have they changed that yet to allow you to store stuff on the phone?

By: -t

-t — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 17:20:17 -0800

Using Evernote here as well. Not thrilled about using the server as storage either, but the app does seem to work well.

By: stp123

stp123 — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 18:00:06 -0800

+1 Evernote. The latest release allows for storage of "favorite" notes directly on the iPhone.

By: gaiamark

gaiamark — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 18:24:47 -0800

PhoneView may do the trick.

http://www.ecamm.com/mac/phoneview/

Good luck ;]

By: gaiamark

gaiamark — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 18:26:00 -0800

Sorry. I should add that PhoneView appears to be Mac only.

By: heathergirl

heathergirl — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 19:58:54 -0800

Another Evernote user here. It's got its flaws, but it's free and will work on a desktop client and on the iPhone. You can also use Evernote to store photos and even scanned (handwritten, even!) documents. The text of those documents is supposed to be searchable, but YMMV on that feature.

By: mister barnacles

mister barnacles — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 08:02:49 -0800

Another vote for Evernote here. They just added offline support that allows locally stored notes, which was the one major downside. I haven't had any luck with the OCR features working as promised, but it's a minor downside for an otherwise great (and free) service.

By: wheat

wheat — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 09:31:00 -0800

@DefendBrooklyn I believe that all the client versions (iPhone/iPod touch included) cache locally.