In my last article on iPhone tips & tricks I had provided a crude workaround to sync notes from your iPhone. You will soon have a better way to do this. Reason: Apple has announced today that the much awaited Mac OS X Leopard will be arriving on October 26th and the good news if you are an iPhone owner is that amongst the 300+ new features in Leopard it is also confirmed that notes syncing will be finally coming to the iPhone.
Here is the details of the Notes feature which confirms this news "Write handy notes you can access from anywhere — including graphics, colored text, and attachments. Group notes into folders or create Smart Mailboxes that automatically group them. Your notes folder acts like an email mailbox, so you can retrieve notes from any Mac or PC or access them from your iPhone."
However, based on this feature description it appears that you will need a .Mac account ".Mac Sync for Notes - Access notes from anywhere, including your other computers, by syncing them with your .Mac account."
PS: I have decided to write shorter articles like this one in addition to the regular articles going forward for the benefit of regular readers @ iPhone Hacks so that you don't miss out on any iPhone-related news.
For those who are waiting for these updates, check out alternative iPhone Notes Applications: http://immotion.net/blog/post/iPhone-Notes—Application-Review-Part-II.aspx to find which notes based applications you might consider using. Some of them have offline capabilities, or optimized user interfaces worth checking out.
Ug. Obviously, this did NOT happen. I am using Windows XP and iTunes and iPhone and Notes do not sync. That is NOT good for me. Why in the world Apple cannot sync a set of plain-text file and stuff them somewhere in the iTunes hive is a mystery that makes one's head spin. Really bad. This is why, despite liking the iPhone a lot, it is still a "kiddie oriented, fun phone that leaves business users wanting for more". No spreadsheet app. No word processor app. No etc, etc. Just a shame. Let's go, Apple– we have enough "touch-based games"– let's see if we can crank out a simple productivity app or 2 someday soon. Ug. Please– prove me wrong– show me the word processor that syncs and allows editing on the desktop and the iphone. Just hook Yahoo Mail's notes app for crying out cornflakes. It is JUST text. — Mark Kamoski