Notes on iPhone

Sorry, it doesn't sync at all.

What a terrible function! I came to this discussion board to figure how to sync notes and I find out its not available! This is a critical function of a PDA! Apple should have spend more time on this and less on You Tube Garbage! My phone is going back and I will reactivate my Palm. Its a pretty toy that fails to deliver simple business tools.

It doesnt sync todos either. Just in case you didnt know...

You can email yourself notes, but that's about it for now.

I did this and I also subscribed to the online to do listing, however I need to have notes and todo available without internet connection. I wish Apple would just come out and say that this will be fixed in a early software update! Thanks

This is a critical function of a PDA!

Agreed.. but the iPhone isn't a PDA. 🙂

The iphone is not a PDA! No I think your wrong!

Integrating the iPhone into your Digital Life!

That statement is worthless without basic functions like ToDo and Note pads that Sync! Digital life is play and work, heck even play needs these functions, unless your a kid!

v1.0 is what we have. Apps will improve and more apps will come.

Workaround works great, took my notes categories from my Palm Treo copied (dragged over) into new contacts created examples below. Update on Iphone or Outlook,syncs great

A1 Frequent Flyer
A1, Business Notes

If you want notes all you have to do is write an email. Don't address it to anyone. Give the subject the title of the note and then close the email and you will have the option to save it as a draft. Save it and it will now sync to your drafts mailbox. Next time you sync it will be in your mail app.

I've been using draft emails as notes for a long time now. It seems to me this is all the new notes thing in OSX 10.5 essentially will be.... only difference is rather than "drafts" it will say "notes" and there will be none of the email "to/from" fields.

Jeff

This sounds like a good way to have notes for now. Another thing to do for info. you want to carry on your iPhone is to put text in the "Notes" section of "Contacts". You can give the contact a name so you can easily retrieve it. It is especially good for info. that you want to protect since it would not be easily found if you lost your iPhone.

Dudley Warner

Steve, i would say if it does not meet your needs, you should take it back and go back to one of the more traditional PDAs that does meet your needs.

A workaround: On your mac, create a new calendar in iCal called NOTES. On your iPhone, create a daily, untimed recurring event in iCal called NOTES. I've got info synching both ways. Can do the same thing for TO DO. Not as good as a real app, but good enough for now (for me, anyway!)


1.33 GHz PowerPC G4 Mac OS X (10.4.3)

Steve, i would say if it does not meet your needs,
you should take it back and go back to one of the
more traditional PDAs that does meet your needs.

I would say users should push for those features they want. Keep pushing, that's how things improve.