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Synchronize iPhone notes

If you are one of those folks who is disappointed that you cannot sync the notes on your iPhone to your PC thanks to the current limitation of the iPhone’s Notes application, then you have come to the right place.

The iPhone is spectacular in many aspects. You can’t imagine anything better for playing music, video, browsing web on a phone or personal device. Despite all that excitement, it needs work in certain applications. One of them is iPhone notes, that enables you to jot down pieces of information. iPhone notes is very handy to use, easily accessible, gives a list of your notes and a nice full screen when you edit it.

But one thing what it does not offer is synching your notes with a PC, so it is not a dependable source of keeping information. If your phone crashes for any reason, all your notes information is lost. Moreover, you can not transfer you notes from desktop to iPhone!! The application also does not give you a way to sort, categorize, or search. As notes pile up, it’ll be difficult to find the information you need quickly.

There are several applications with which you can easily synch your notes, we will look into a few of them

1. Using Contacts:
   

   

   It is one of the simplest and fastest workaround I have encountered. You would know that each contact has a notes field. So all you need to do is create a fake contact and paste any info you like in the notes field for that contact in Address Book. That way after a sync you will have all that information on your PC. You can use your contact notes offline and synchronize them whenever you like.

2. Using Email Drafts:
   

   

   It is the same as the first workaround. Just, access your mailbox, compose a new mail, paste any info you like in the notes field and save it as a draft. Very simple indeed. Now you notes will be synchronized next time you sync your mails.

   Idea: Establish an email account used only for Notes.

3. iphonenotes: Note: For Mac OS X only and requires a Jail Broken phone.
   This is a great application for Mac OS users for synching their notes. I assure you that you will love using it. You just need to install a binary on your Mac machine and connect your iPhone and PC to the same network, rest is done by iphonenotes.

   

   iPhone Notes is a universal Mac binary (meaning it will work with both PPC and Intel Mac versions) that allows you to easily backup your iPhone’s notes on your computer. It also allows you to view the notes, edit (change,add and remove them), and then save them back to your iPhone.

   You can find out more about the program on its official website

4. Noter:Noter is a online based application that allows you to use an advanced notes program both online and offline. Here is a brief snapshot of how it works. You sign up for a Noter account, then log in to Noter by pointing your mobile Safari browser to noter.dbelement.com. Load the Noter client onto your iPhone - allowing them to make/edit notes at will. The finished notes can by synchronized to the server, which can in turn be synchronized to other users’ Noter clients. It’s a great tool to manage your notes easily.
   

   

   Noter application can be used for offline use too. Once it’s loaded, notes can be added quickly. This gives a faster speed of entry. It also has a pretty cool search option.

   You can find out more about the program on its official website

5. EverNote:Evernote lets you remember anything that you want using your iPhone. You can jot down stuff that you need to take for vacation, save lovely pictures when you’re out with friends, or capture an interesting quote from a conversation. You name it and Evernote is there to organize that information for you and more importantly the information is easily accessible and searchable at any time, the only two things that are missing in iPhone Notes application.EverNote is a wonderful application for collecting, storing, and organizing practically any kind of information you can throw at it. You can store text notes, snapshot notes and voice notes. The snapshot and voice note are very handy when you do not want to type lengthy note using iPhone’s virtual keyboard. Your note is automatically uploaded to your Evernote server via WiFi or 3G/EDGE. So, you can refer them back whenever you need.
   

   

   To get started, you need to sign up an account. The service is free and upgradable to a premium account with larger upload allowance. You will first need to get EverNote from iTunes app store (link given below). The user interface is quite simple and intutive.

   

   It has an excellent search function (can supposedly find words in pictures too), and can be used on a variety of platforms. You can also organize notes into notebooks. Notes can be tagged with arbitrary text. They can also be organized with a “Saved Search” based on either a query or a tag.

   

   Getting back to syncing, the Evernote desktop client syncs with the servers every hour by default. But it can be set to sync every 30, 15, or 5 minutes, or even manually if you so desire. If you create a new note but need to run out the door and have that note accessible while mobile (more on that in a minute), simply hit the sync button and you’re good to go.

   You can find out more about the program on its official website

Thats’ all I could compile up. If you are using or know something better, please let me know. Enjoy!!

January 23rd, 2009 Posted by nitin | iphone, technology | 2 comments