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iOS Notes syncing works through the IMAP protocol, which in iCloud is integrated into the email service. Although Apple could technically choose to allow for notes syncing without explicitly requiring an email address, they have chosen to make it a part of the email, almost like Notes is its own email folder.
You should also be able to sync your Notes using ...
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The iOS Notes app is not able to insert pictures. At best it will paste a url to an image.
I suggest you use another note app such as Evernote or Notability.
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Unfortunately there's no url scheme for the Notes app, so there's no way to jump to a specific one.
There are two good sites for finding iOS app url schemes, handleOpenURL and the iPhone URL Schemes page on Akosma's wiki. The former has many more urls, but the latter occasionally has something the other doesn't.
A quick search in handleOpenURL for "text" ...
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You could just wait for the next iPhone update. While it's not guaranteed to have the ability to add photos, I believe it's likely that it will have the ability to do so. That's because one of the new features in Mountain Lion is a Notes app which synchronizes with iCloud, and one of it's features is adding pictures to notes:
Notes in OS X Mountain Lion ...
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The only unremovable Dock icon is the Finder, removing anything else should result in it staying removed. There is nothing special about Reminders and Notes, and it's always annoyed me that they put in icons for things like launchpad etc when they have system wide keystrokes or gestures for the same task.
One point to bear in mind tho, is that to prevent ...
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You can go in "Terminal.app" and write (if your system is in english):
nano /Applications/Notes.app/Contents/Resources/en.lproj/DefaultFonts.plist
You will see a long file, but it's easy to understand it's content. You just need to change the ?? value, it is the default font size for each font.
When you are done, just control+O to save then control+X to ...
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You need a 10.6/10.7 system handy as this doesn't work in 10.8. The method I've previously used is as follows:
Plug your iPhone into your Mac and go into iTunes -> Your Device -> Info tab and choose to Sync notes.
This should grab the notes out of the On my iPhone section and dump them into Mail.app.
Your notes should appear under the Notes section in ...
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This is actually amazingly simple in Mountain Lion.
Open the Notes app.
You should have a list of notes folders on the left side.
Select the "On My iPhone" folder or whichever folder you want to move notes from.
Then select all the notes using Command+A.
Drag them to the Notes folder in iCloud.
I literally just did this about 5 or so minutes ago.
Hope ...
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I personally prefer Simplenote because it's simpler, plain text and not that fancy. Well, it's just text snippets and notes for me.
Google gets you loads of comparisons:
Simplenote and Evernote – in a rather large nutshell
Simplenote vs Evernote
Evernote vs. Simplenote
EDIT
If you want to look into Simplenote check out Notational Velocity!
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You can use OptionShift⌘-V to paste and match the current style. This removes all previous formatting, links, etc.
If you would like to make this the default action when pressing ⌘V, open System Preferences -> Keyboard -> Keyboard Shortcuts, and select Application Shortcuts from the list on the left. Then, hit + to make a new shortcut, select ...
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There's a difference between syncing with iTunes and over the air sync.
If you set up your Gmail account to use over the air sync then when you open up the Notes app (on the iPod), you should notice a back button on the top left that allows you to change which account you use for notes. If you choose your Gmail account and start creating notes, you will ...
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Short answer is no :(. That is, unless you can get to the note before iCloud updates it, but that would not be much time at all.
Not that they are in the same class, but one can do that with Time Machine. It allows one to go back through, and it has saved and kept track of the changes that have been made to documents.
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If you have an iTunes backup, you can browse it with this application and maybe find your note again.
The linked app works only for Mac, but here's two alternatives (not tested) :
iPhone backup extractor which is a paid multiplatform app
iphonebackupbrowser which is less polished and windows only, but free.
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That was one of the things I also noticed and found a bit strange - therefore, I developed the app My Photo Note.
You can let the app set a link of your photo note into the iPhone calendar - tapping the link will open up the photo note in My Photo Note.
My Photo Note is also not free ($1.99 for the full version), but you can try the lite version for free: ...
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Just make sure that you have your iCloud notes sync enabled on your iPhone as per:
Transfer iPhone notes via iCloud
Note that notes which were already on your iPhone before you enabled iCloud Notes sync will not automatically sync to your iCloud account.
What I would do in your case is simply email the notes to your @me.com account which you created ...
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You have two options:
Using Dropbox, save your files on your Dropbox folder and access them on your iPhone through:
The Dropbox app, tap on a file. I think Dropbox has a built in text editor, or you can select any text-editing app on your device to view/edit it.
Any of the many dedicated text editing apps with built in Dropbox support, such as Elements, ...
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the way that apple handles notes on the iOS devices is that really they are just specially formatted email messages bing sent to yourself from yourself. This was a bit more obvious in earlier versions of OSX as the notes you would write would appear in the apple email client mail.app.
If you want to use you iCloud account to sync your notes then yes apple ...
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If you search for some local notes with Spotlight or Alfred, the results will contain files like ~/Library/Containers/com.apple.Notes/Data/Library/CoreData/ExternalRecords/*/IMAPNote/_records/0/p8.notesexternalrecord. Opening them opens the notes in Notes.app, but they're just empty property lists.
The contents of local notes are stored in a binary format ...
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I observe same behaviour on one of my laptops (both use gmail, but different accounts). One of the solutions is to switch to iCloud sync. Notes stop disappearing, but you can't edit anything while notes are being updated... which happens each time you update something. Apple surely was in the rush to roll out that one.
I haven't figured out the exact ...
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Aside from making sure you've installed all the latest system software updates, try the following to "reset" Notes on your computer:
Quit the Notes application.
Turn off iCloud Notes sync on all your devices (on Mac, in System Preferences > iCloud, and on iOS, in Settings > iCloud).
In the Finder, pull down the Go menu, hold down Option to reveal ...
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I'm not sure if this is quite possible but try exporting your iPhone notes to your computer via this iPhone notes app. Then use the iCloud control panel on your computer to import the notes to iCloud.
I am not sure if you could import Notes via the iCloud control panel on your computer but it is worth giving it a try.
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You can use a Mac app like PhoneView to access the notes on your iPhone. You will still have to copy and paste, but that can be a much faster process on the Mac—you have all sorts of options to speed things up, from keyboard shortcuts to AppleScript.
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Your notes can synchronize with Gmail or iCloud, not both as far as I can tell.
To sync a note with Gmail do the following
Set up your account and check the notes box in the Mail, Contacts & Calendars preference pane.
Go to notes in Mountain Lion
Go to View -> Show Folders List -- or -- click the folders list icon in the bottom left side of the Notes ...
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In Notes.app when you are in the "On this iPhone" section, any notes you create will exist only on the phone (not synced with google or iCloud). The option disappears when all your notes are synced, presumably to encourage you to save to iCloud by default, but the solution is simply to leave one in the "on this iPhone" folder.
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For Notes,
Launch Automator --> Service
Add the action "Run AppleScript"
Replace (* Your script goes here *) with:
tell application "Notes" to activate
tell application "System Events"
click menu item "Notes" of ((process "Notes")'s (menu bar 1)'s ¬
(menu bar item "Window")'s (menu "Window"))
click menu item "New Note" of ((process ...
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OK, the problem here looks like it was access rights on the file that stores my dock contents.
Apparently, using TinkerTool to prevent changes to the dock sets the access rights on that file, and doesn't change them back when I disable that feature.
I'll open a question on superuser.com about what the correct access rights should be.
Basically, this fixed ...
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If you've got other mail accounts set up on your iPhone, the notes might be synced into that account rather than your iCloud account. The problem is that there's no way, that I've found, on an iPhone anyway to move your notes from one account to another.
If they are synced into, let's say, Gmail, you may be able to log into your Gmail account online and ...
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On your iPhone, when you are showing the list of notes: It says "Accounts" on the top left. Tap an see what you have in the iCloud account and what you have in local accounts.
If you want to avoid deleting the iCloud account, you can copy the contents one by one from the local (on my iPhone) to the iCloud one.
On the other hand, if you are willing to ...
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Nevermind, I managed to get it working following the advise of another discussion thread on the Apple forums; namely:
Same thing happend to me on my 3gs, i went to Settings...iCloud...Delete Account
then signed in again to add it. The iCloud inbox was displayed afterwards.
This also fixed the problem of notes, which now show up properly on the notes ...
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