Notes finally sync with Mac Mail and Outlook. To enable notes:
- Plug in your iPhone to your desktop.
- In iTunes, click on your iPhone in the Library list.
- Click on the Info tab.
- Check the Notes box.
- Click the Sync button.
While it seems a small victory, it's one more step towards making your iPhone's Notes app indespensible. I've covered Notes Search option and the fact that more and more text, like street addresses, numbers and links are smartext that your iPhone can identify and trigger apps like mail, Safari and Maps. This gives you the ability to save huge blocks of text as a note on your desktop and transfer it over to your iphone.
You'd think from the interface of Notes on your iPhone that they're plain text. They're actually rich text, but you have no way of changing this on your iPhone. However, you can use rich text in notes created on your desktop. As you see here they iPhone can view these just fine. It can also send rich text notes as rich text email. So if you want to write up some fancy directions that you send out regularly, you can write these as a note on your desktop with formatting and then sync to your iPhone, the formatting sticks when your email the note. The annoying yellow note background will not be sent in your email.
Font, size and color translate provided the font is viewable on your iPhone. The Mail ToDo will appear in the note you your iPhone (as well as when a Note is sent as email) as text. And attachments don't transfer either. The paperclip marking where an attachment was in a note created in Mail is a graphic you can't do anything with.
