can you move all my notes to my MAC

Marydee wrote:

All I want do is take my notes transfer them to a folder on my Mac

That is imposing a requirement of how you want to do something. Instead, it would be much better if you say what you want to do. I believe what you want to do is:

”All I want to do is take my notes onto my Mac.”

The way to do that is place your notes in iCloud. Then your Mac can view/edit/delete your notes, and your iPhone can view/edit/delete those very same notes. They will not be in a folder. They will be in the cloud.

Carefully read the “Set up Notes with iCloud” section in the article linked above. Housing your notes in iCloud will make the same notes available on all your Apple devices.

Marydee wrote:

do I need to use back up for this?

No. Hopefully you’ll be prompted to move your notes once you follow the directions.

they are already asking me to purchase more space

Manage your iCloud storage - Apple Support

If you’re asking me to respond, I have absolutely no idea what your post above means.

• I will try again.” Try what again?
  • An explanation?
  • Migrating notes Store iCloud?
  • Dealing with iCloud storage and its pricing?
• ”The notes are on all the devices…” - I think you have them on each device independently.
• ”… but I don’t want to pay for it as a back[]up.”
  • Housing notes in iCloud has nothing to do with any backup.
  • You pay for total iCloud storage if you exceed 5GB. The article I linked above explains how to manage that storage.