Notes App Keeps Making Recovered Items Folder

So, currently, my Notes are working on iCloud and Google IMAP, but not Lunarpages IMAP (Dovecot IMAP4v1).

Any suggestion for a note app similar to Notes that sync across Mac and iOS? Evernote is great, but I am looking for something more barebone. I looked at Notefiles, but it also had problem with iCloud sync.

Justnotes syncs with Simplenote on iOS. It's quite nice and quite simple.

Thanks, I'll check it out.

Just for reference: OS X Mavericks has arrived, without any enhancement in this regard. Notes still are duplicated.

If you delete the recovered folder, does it come back? I haven't seen my notes get duplicated on Mavericks yet, and I was experiencing this issue a lot on Mountain Lion.

It has come back once, I think the second time I started the app on Mavericks. I'll keep an eye on it, though.

Ah, and again. It suffices to start "Notes", make a few changes, close and restart. Took about 30s to reproduce. :-(

I seem to have found the reason for this behaviour in my case. Hopefully, this should help those interested in fixing it in Notes app.

I am using OSX Mavericks [ 10.9.1 ] though.

I have notes on MacBook Pro synced up with my Google account [ GMail ]. I notice that this creates a label called "Notes" in my GMail account. It probably uses this to sync up the notes through GMail.

I also happen to sync my GMail locally with the MAIL app and wanted to stop syncing most of the labels in GMail. Once I disabled syncing of "Notes" label, immediately upon editing any item in Notes app, I started seeing this duplication. I tried reproducing this by enabling and disabling the "Notes" label in GMail. And whenever this label is disabled I always got duplicates [ and quite a few of them, depending on how much data I enter in my Notes item ] [ I use Priority Box feature in GMail though ]

My understanding of this problem is that, the Notes app tries to sync these items to the server. And since I disabled syncing anything that uses "Notes" label in GMail, Notes app failed to sync items. Any item that is failed to sync up with the server is stored locally in "Recovered Items" folder. And if you are viewing your Notes items through the "All Notes" folder, then you will see the list of failed items present in "Recovered Items" folder too. And this gives the illusion of multiple duplicates.

Try to fix your Notes app connection with your server [ either iCloud or anything else that you use ] and probably it might solve this issue.

SOLVED:

You cannot do delete that Recovered Items subfolder within IOS. Go to Notes on your Mac and delete it there (hit delete key) and it will sync across devices. Poof! Gone.

How did you report it and get confirmation that it was a duplicate?