PS one possible workaround is to activate Notes for iCloud <http://www.macobserver.com/tmo/article/how-to-effectively-use-the-notes-app-in-ios-and-os-x>, then you can possibly access them through your iCloud account via an e-mail client. Not sure if the "FROM MY PC" notes get associated with the iCloud mailbox when you activate it, but I can give it a try...
On Thursday, October 22, 2015 at 3:12:43 PM UTC-5, madscijr wrote: > > Hi Tiddlywikers, > > Has anyone tried transferring notes, created in Apple's default Notes app > on their iPhone or iPad, to their computer (I'm in Windows), to ultimately > be imported in TiddlyWiki? (I haven't got that far yet, but will probably > write a VBA or Python or Perl script to concatenate the notes into a pure > store XML file that can be imported into TiddlyWiki. I've done that sort > of thing before.) > > For a long time, the Notes app just supported plain text, and you could > sync them to Outlook's notes through iTunes. I wrote a VBA macro in > Outlook to save all the notes to text files (getting the file name from the > first non-blank line of the note, massaging out unfriendly characters for > the file name, etc.) > > However, now iOS' Notes app supports (yay) rich text. Which is fine if > you file the note under an e-mail account, because then you can get it onto > your computer with an e-mail client (I would use Outlook on the PC and > similar to above, write a VBA macro to simply export the messages in the > Notes folder to files in HTML format, and save any attachments or images to > the same folder. Importing those into TiddlyWiki would probably be a > little more complicated because you might want to convert the HTML into TW > markup, or you could embed the content inside <html>...</html> which might > have some hiccups, and any image references would need to point to whatever > local folder you keep your TiddlyWiki image files in). > > Since the rich text support came along, I have filed most of my notes > under a linked e-mail account. However, before I realized that there might > be a problem syncing the notes to a Windows PC, wrote a bunch of rich text > notes filed under the default "FROM MY PC", which to my knowledge only > syncs to Outlook's notes, which are plain text. > > So my question is, does anyone know any bulk method of transferring the > iOS rich text notes to PC, that preserves the formatting and images? > > I could manually e-mail all my notes to myself but there are a couple > hundred at least, and the experience could be time-consuming. > > Or I could seek out a friend who has a Mac and try transferring the notes > to their computer (I would think Apple supports that natively for OS X) and > then convert the notes to RTF or some PC-friendly format. > > Any help appreciated... > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywiki. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/a08dcf01-0237-4211-8b40-06482cfead75%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
