{"id":2943,"date":"2011-04-25T15:33:56","date_gmt":"2011-04-25T20:33:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/polarbear60.org\/randr\/?p=2943"},"modified":"2019-09-22T10:57:43","modified_gmt":"2019-09-22T15:57:43","slug":"notes-app-annoyances","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/notes-app-annoyances\/","title":{"rendered":"Notes App Annoyances"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, I sound pretty annoyed lately.\u00a0 I&#8217;m not quite as annoyed or frustrated as it might sound, but if these things are bothering me, they may bother one of you some day soon &#8212; or maybe it already is bothering you.<\/p>\n<p>I will say this:\u00a0 I should have emailed Easy Note and HomeBudget backups to myself and restored the original iPad to the new iPad.\u00a0 I believe that would have avoided the problems I&#8217;m experiencing right now.\u00a0 I made life more difficult for myself than I had to by not doing that.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve heard much rumbling about Apple&#8217;s Notes App for iPad.\u00a0 It&#8217;s kind of a cute, basic app &#8212; it looks like a yellow legal pad (that&#8217;s one of the things people complain about).\u00a0 It&#8217;s great for &#8220;jotting&#8221; quick notes.\u00a0 I have several items on there that I wanted on my new iPad.\u00a0 Since there isn&#8217;t an export capability, I emailed the notes to myself.\u00a0 I opened them in the new iPad and copied the note.\u00a0 I opened Notes and tried to paste the note into the new Notes program.\u00a0 No can do.\u00a0 No pasting.\u00a0 Huh?<\/p>\n<p>It turns out that&#8217;s just one of the &#8220;features&#8221; this program is vilified for.\u00a0 I began a search for a replacement.\u00a0 I&#8217;m not alone in this process.\u00a0 This person listed 18 notes apps he was willing to talk about (he&#8217;d deleted many more).\u00a0 He chose WhiteNote, which I looked at, and it looked good.\u00a0 I bought it ($3.99), and I can&#8217;t figure out how to paste text into it.\u00a0 Arghhh.\u00a0 At this point, I don&#8217;t know if it&#8217;s me or the app, but I think it&#8217;s the app. The other app I came upon that looks useful for what I was looking for\u00a0 was iDo Notepad.\u00a0 It would let me paste my old notes in.\u00a0 It&#8217;s available for free.\u00a0 If you want a few other features as well as DropBox access, you&#8217;ll need to buy Neil&#8217;s Notepad for $2.99.\u00a0 If you play with iDo Notepad first and decide to get the more robust version, you can export your notes from iDo Notepad directly into Neil&#8217;s Notepad (or other text apps it finds on your iPad &#8212; it found PlainText, iThoughtsHD, Pages, Evernote, GoodReader, Office2 HD, and Dropbox on my machine).<\/p>\n<p>I may wind up wiping the iPad2 when I get back to the Mac Mini and restoring.\u00a0 I&#8217;ll just need to remember to offload certain files first.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, I sound pretty annoyed lately.\u00a0 I&#8217;m not quite as annoyed or frustrated as it might sound, but if these things are bothering me, they may bother one of you some day soon &#8212; or maybe it already is bothering you. I will say this:\u00a0 I should have emailed Easy <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/notes-app-annoyances\/\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[64],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech-stuff"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2943","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2943"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2943\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14805,"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2943\/revisions\/14805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}