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<p>On 6 Jan 2012, at 23:10, Mike Brasch wrote:</p>
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<p>Maybe with some "sugar" like displaying</p>
<ul>
<li>foo</li>
<li>bar</li>
</ul>
<p>like a HTML list.</p>
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<p>I just tried creating a note in Leopard Apple Mail and it supports bulleted lists (Format ▸ Lists ▸ Inserted Bulleted List). This note was placed in the Inbox. I'm guessing the same can be done on Lion, but I cannot test that right now. I also tried creating a note on my iPhone and that note appeared in a special Notes mailbox within my IMAP account.</p>
<p>Well, the main point of the above is that it is necessary to do some reengineering to support notes since it is not a documented format (as far as I know). Also, the notes are saved as HTML which is not supported by MailMate when editing although that part could perhaps be handled by some Markdown <-> HTML conversion.</p>
<p>The following is the raw version of the note created on the iPhone:</p>
<pre><code>Subject: My first note...
From: =?utf-8?Q?Benny_Kj=C3=A6r_Nielsen?= <...@freron.com>
X-Universally-Unique-Identifier: 0811AAB1-6B98-4236-A762-AC8CCDEAB7D4
Content-Type: text/html;
charset=utf-8
X-Uniform-Type-Identifier: com.apple.mail-note
Message-Id: <F191E3E8-061F-4BE0-A5F4-B559B54DF973@freron.com>
Date: Fri, 06 Jan 2012 23:19:33 +0100
X-Mail-Created-Date: Fri, 06 Jan 2012 23:19:33 +0100
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Mime-Version: 1.0 (1.0)
My first note...<div><br></div>
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<p>It seems quite straightforward to create such a message, but it would have been nice if it had been <code>text/plain</code> instead of <code>text/html</code>. I tried manually creating a <code>text/plain</code> note and it did appear on my iPhone, but it was converted to <code>text/html</code> when I edited it.</p>
<p>I'll give it some more thought. Comments are welcome if anyone has some insight in how Apples notes work.</p>
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<p>Benny</p>
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