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Apple to add iPhone notes syncing to Mail.app?


A loyal reader recently sent in a tip asking us had we seen a dialog in Mail.app. The dialog in question is produced when creating a new note and pressing command + b. You would expect it to be a shortcut for bold, but no ... it brings up the above dialog.

The dialog specifies that by converting the note to Rich Text, devices such as the iPhone will not be able to edit it. Could this be a sign that notes syncing between iPhone and Mail.app could be coming in the not so distant future? We can only hope so.

Thanks for the tip, Shayan!

Update:
As some have mentioned in the comments, iPhone notes syncing was an expected, but not released feature of iPhone 2.0.

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Rafa

Apple !!! Apple !!!

I WANT MY NOTES IN MY IPHONE & VICEVERSA... !!!

October 04 2008 at 10:50 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
zahadum

@mpup: you ungrateful bastard! ;-)

if mobile_safari crashed less often than it does (which is only every 5 minutes at the most!) then mac safari would appear to be an even more underwhelming engineering achievement --

and how would that let down make the mac_safari feel in the big world of bugginess??!

... Standing out like a sore thumb, that's how!

You cruel sick bastard! - why can't you just Leave The Boy Alone?

What's next? ... will you start pointing out how windows_ safari is more stable than both mac & mobile safari put together?

Shame On You!

Mobile safari just wants to fit in with all the other flaky Apple apps on the iPhone - that's all .... is it too much to ask that we lower our expectations & accept that mobile osx is just as lame as mobwin & palmOS?

I don't think so!

I believe in a bright new future in which the QA department on the Apple campus in cupertino is burned down in a raging fire (sorry, but the MIS dept doesnt count) ...

I believe in a better tomorrow in which all Apple apps - be they on the mighty mac or the merely mobile - may be judged by the shininess of their interface instead of the content of their code!

I believe in an Apple Corporation where a department head can preside over a service launch that fails utterly & abysmally -- yet not be publicly fired or face any professional humiliation.

pmup -- if that is your real name! -- you are part of precisely the kind of defeatist, hate-apple-first, crowd that is going to cost us the war on cyber!

Remember, pmup, never doubt-speak, always double-speak!

The iPhone is not unstable! ... hasn't anyone TOLD you yet that Quantum Computing is really cool? - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_computing

the iPhone is merely demonstrating how adept it is at exhibiting polyvalent quantum states! -- in actuality, the iPhone is toggling between multiple dimensions, thus being shared by multiple users at the same time ...

you do know all about the Heisenberg Uncertainity principle, right?

(by fully exploiting the simultaneous quantum opportunities offered by the Brownian Function, apple is raising its unix time-sharing heritage to a whole new level .. can you imagine how much extra profit apple is able to score by crashing - er, reinitializing - in more than one dimension at the same time! Which is great for the shareholders - and dont tell me that you are some kind of tax&spend Democrat that is all against exploiting hyper-dimensionality, in order to diversify Apple's profit streams?!)

Don't blame the (ipod) player, blame the (apple) game!

August 16 2008 at 8:56 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
rei_vilo

Actually, the lack of notes syncing with Mail is a purcahse stopper for me, as the missing to-do list.

So I keep waiting for those rumors coming true...

August 15 2008 at 12:52 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Ernie Oporto

Hoping this will work with Evernote at some point.

August 15 2008 at 12:04 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
pmup

The only new feature I really want is an iPhone that is STABLE!!!

August 15 2008 at 11:45 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
krishb

I have had a nightmare losing all my notes after a crash because of lack of sync.. answer was to use one of these 2 apps.. http://kbhanot.wordpress.com/2008/08/14/most-impressive-list-task-manager-to-do-iphone-apps/

August 15 2008 at 10:58 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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chad

No, you lost your notes because you aren't backing them up anywhere. No matter the status of note syncing, you should always have a backup. With TimeMachine, there really is no reason not to.

August 15 2008 at 3:26 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
akatsuki

So Apple will waste their time with an RTF incompatible notes sync? What is the point of a smartphone that can't handle RTFs? Although this might be the case with the iPhone, which seems to continually launch stuff in a half-finished state, I am hoping not.

Also, it would be nice if they finally added To-Dos, something that some people might consider essential and basic for a PIM.

August 15 2008 at 10:20 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
STR

If I had been an Enterprise beta tester for iPhone 2.0 I would have submitted a bug report about notes syncing. I would have been told engineering was aware but the feature was not "compelling" enough to justify at this time. IF I had been a beta tester.

Also, that dialog has been there for a long, long time.

August 15 2008 at 10:11 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
nfoo

Uhm ... what are "other devices"?

August 15 2008 at 9:55 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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frank

come on, apple TABLET! daddy needs a new reading device!

August 15 2008 at 11:00 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Phil Holland

This has been around. Here is the iphone blog in October of 2007....

http://www.theiphoneblog.com/2007/10/29/iphone-notes-syncing/

August 15 2008 at 9:52 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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