How can I save iOS Notes on Windows that remain formatted?

I have an iPhone 5 running iOS 8.4.1. I have many Notes that are formatted using bold, italics, carriage returns, etc.

How can I save these Notes off to my Windows laptop via iTunes or some third-party software, while preserving the formatting of my Notes? Such software would need to be able to sync those Notes back to my iPhone, while still preserving all the rich text.

Since I put sensitive information in my notes, I want everything to remain local to my devices, so I don’t want to use iCloud.


TLDR:

In Notes on your iOS device: Export (Share) the note via email to yourself. Then you can copy-paste it nicely from the email.


I just figured out how to keep iOS note formatting in ipad Microsoft Word. you can open your iOS note and send it to an email. Once it opens the email, select all and copy to clipboard. For some reason it keeps the formatting this way even though it won't if you had copied directly from notes. I then pasted it into a Microsoft word document, and it kept all the formatting. So far this was the only way I could get it to keep the formatting outside of notes.


  • The new version of iCloud Notes, available at https://www.icloud.com/#notes2, supports viewing rich text notes with formatting.
  • Notes in OS X, besides viewing and editing rich text notes, supports exporting notes as PDF. Select the note you wish to export and choose File → Export as PDF….