Easy way to export iOS notes content to text?
December 21, 2024 7:08 PM Subscribe
Is there an easy way to export content from the iOS Notes app to plain text, without involving a Mac or iTunes for Windows?
I have resigned my job and will be turning in my work-issued iPhone XR on Monday. My departure is pleasant and I am on good terms with the former company. I would like to help them by exporting all my iOS notes to text files they process & store however they'd like. Ideally I could export this stuff to a Windows PC as text files and then zip it all up and email it to them. Is this doable without having a Mac or installing iTunes for Windows?
So far the only way I have thought of is to manually copy notes into Google Keep on the iPhone, then manually pull them out of Google Keep into text files on a Windows PC. I also have Linux machines available to use if there is something good there.
Additional context: I am not a Apple person and I don't have access to a Mac. I also have little knowledge of iOS or the Apple ecosystem beyond basic iPhone usage. iTunes will not be installed on any of my computers (I'll do the Google Keep copy+paste before I install iTunes). The information I will be preserving is details of technical installations I made over my time with the company: locations of hardware installations, network details, usernames and password of maintenance accounts at client sites, etc. The company is very very very small and there are no concerns about corporate policy or IT department rules. I am the IT department (well, I was.). I just want to make it a little easier on these folks to pick up the pieces after I'm gone.
I have resigned my job and will be turning in my work-issued iPhone XR on Monday. My departure is pleasant and I am on good terms with the former company. I would like to help them by exporting all my iOS notes to text files they process & store however they'd like. Ideally I could export this stuff to a Windows PC as text files and then zip it all up and email it to them. Is this doable without having a Mac or installing iTunes for Windows?
So far the only way I have thought of is to manually copy notes into Google Keep on the iPhone, then manually pull them out of Google Keep into text files on a Windows PC. I also have Linux machines available to use if there is something good there.
Additional context: I am not a Apple person and I don't have access to a Mac. I also have little knowledge of iOS or the Apple ecosystem beyond basic iPhone usage. iTunes will not be installed on any of my computers (I'll do the Google Keep copy+paste before I install iTunes). The information I will be preserving is details of technical installations I made over my time with the company: locations of hardware installations, network details, usernames and password of maintenance accounts at client sites, etc. The company is very very very small and there are no concerns about corporate policy or IT department rules. I am the IT department (well, I was.). I just want to make it a little easier on these folks to pick up the pieces after I'm gone.
You can email or text any Notes file directly from Notes.
posted by Thorzdad at 6:08 AM on December 22, 2024 [1 favorite]
posted by Thorzdad at 6:08 AM on December 22, 2024 [1 favorite]
Response by poster: Thank you, folks. I ended up "sending" them from Notes to Google Keep then copy-pasting them from Keep to Notepad on Windows. It was fairly painless.
posted by glonous keming at 6:46 PM on December 22, 2024
posted by glonous keming at 6:46 PM on December 22, 2024
For future readers: iMazing has a free trial and I'm 99% certain it would be able to do this using the free trial version.
posted by kristi at 7:26 PM on December 22, 2024 [1 favorite]
posted by kristi at 7:26 PM on December 22, 2024 [1 favorite]
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