Import Your Notes from the iPhone/iPad Notes App

The iPhone and iPod touch do not allow to directly import notes that you have already created in the native Notes application. With a few steps, however, you can quickly and easily transfer them into Notebooks:

1. -Back up your iPhone or iPod touch through iTunes
   

2. -Download the iPhone Backup Extractor for Mac
   

3. -Launch the application and click Read Backups
   

4. -Choose the latest backup
   

5. -From the presented list, choose iPhone OS Files and click Extract
   

6. -Select a location to store the extracted files
   

On a PC you could use mobilesync-inspect, the procedure for extracting the notes.db file is a bit different, but explained in the Readme file.

In the chosen location you will now find a folder “iPhone OS FIles”. In this folder, go to Library -> Notes and import the file notes.db into Notebooks. You can do so by:

1. -dropping the file into a shared book (see WiFi Sharing)
   

2. -putting the file on a WebDAV server and synchronize Notebooks
   

3. -importing the file with SyncDocs
   

4. -putting the file into your SyncDocs or WebDAV sync folder and synchronize
   

Notebooks shows the document notes.db with a generic icon. When you open it by tapping on its name, Notebooks will extract the notes into the new book iPhone Notes. The notes.db file will be deleted.