Comments on: iPhone 3.0: Notes Sync (Finally!)

By: Framedink

Framedink — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 17:08:00 +0000

Ok can anyone clear this up, I have a iPhone and use Notes, Im upgrading to a new iPhone 3GS so Im in the process of syncing and copying stuff across. I have a macbook pro on leopard, I use entourage as my mail client. I want to copy my Notes, if I tick the Sync Notes box when iphone/info were will these be saved on my computer and how will I be able to get them onto my new iPhone 3GS?

By: David

David — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 22:31:28 +0000

Hi.. Just got iPhone G3S, after deciding to leave Palm.. I’ve created 300+ notes on Palm over the last 10 years of use. All imported beautifully from Outlook to the iPhone. But there’s a huge problem.. instead of all being neatly organized and separated into dozens of folders and sub folders, they’re all in one single giant folder! Help.. How can I get the iPhone to recognized the notes folders as they are on outlook?

By: whyspir

whyspir — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 18:11:01 +0000

in case anyone else was looking, the notes (on mac) sync in the mail application. i didn’t see an explicit reference to this in any of the posts i saw. it would be nice if Notes could be more like stickies, as a separate app, but oh well. no idea on size limitation

By: Stefan Day

Stefan Day — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 03:34:16 +0000

To give a better answer than my prior post #73 provides:

By default, my Outlook 2007 did not show a quick jump to Notes. You can bypass my prior suggestion of using the top bar to hit "go" and then "notes" or hitting Ctrl + 5 by merely locating on the lower left side of Outlook 2007 a small bar directly above mail, calendars, contacts, etc. and dragging upward on the small bar. You will now see the elusive "Notes" link which was hidden below tasks. Perhaps, your computer monitor will display it by default but it didn't on my widescreen laptop with Outlook 2007 running multiple, space-devouring toolbars on the top.

By: Stefan Day

Stefan Day — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 03:23:31 +0000

I have an iPhone 3GS using the OS 3.1 which was released on 9-9-09. In iTunes, under the phone sync “info” tab, selecting to sync notes to Outlook was easy, but I didn’t know where they went in Outlook. A quick fix for me was to go to the top bar in Outlook and select “Go” and then hit “Notes” or you can hit Ctrl + 5 Finally, I can find the notes which were synched. I can make the notes viewing window larger and copy them to Word. I realize that what Richard K said on August 20th may apply to some people and that the “notes” folder which the iPhone or Touch synched to could be harder to find when one has done this with other devices in the past. I think this easy notes finding shortcut Ctrl + 5 will help many people using the iPod Touch or iPhone who haven’t had to locate “Notes” in Outlook before and who don’t have a quick link currently visible.

By: Robin Wookey

Robin Wookey — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 00:35:54 +0000

I’m still a user of Palm Desktop having used it since Claris Organiser days . . and love it, especially the way it handles notes in particular the way you can link notes to individual single or multiple contacts, events and other notes. Is there a way to import these notes????

By: Taylor

Taylor — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 16:36:15 +0000

I’m having a syncing problem with notes and my new iPhone 3GS. When I sync the phone, everything looks fine until the very end when a box pops up that says, “iTunes could not sync notes to the iPhone because the iPhone disconnected.” Anyone know what that’s about?

By: mvpmich

mvpmich — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 02:28:58 +0000

Just solved my problem. In Mail Preferences there is a box in each email account that you can deselect to NOT show Notes in the In box so they are just in the Notes folder.

By: mvpmich

mvpmich — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 02:04:55 +0000

Any idea why notes sync to regular mail account and not to the notes folder in Mail? I set up my iMac duo and it works great with my iPhone notes but when I tried it with my Macbook, the notes appear in one of my mail accounts and I can transfer them to the notes folder but if I delete them from the original mail account the are also deleted from my Notes folder. After this happens, sync tries to delete them from my iMac when it syncs!?

By: jvill

jvill — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 16:30:44 +0000

"Palm Desktop should be the model. PLEASE!!!"

Yes, it should sync. No, it should not use Palm Desktop as a model -- a syncing, conflicting, third-party software breakdown mess.