Access Notes App Data

Access notes app data

There's no API to do this. 3rd party apps have no access to such data.

Can my app access the Notes (Apple app) folder in iOS?

All applications are sandboxed so you can not access the Users notes that they created in the Notes Application. Apple provides no SDK methods which you can use without Jailbreaking and private methods.

A potential (but cumbersome) solution could be that Notes could be synced to a Users IMAP account. You could see if you could communicate with the IMAP Server by asking for the Login Credentials and then grabbing the Notes.

Can I access standard iOS Notes and Reminders' data using CloudKit web services or something like that?

There is none. The only thing exposed so far is the CloudKit api which is for accessing key value data that you created yourself.

If you want to access reminders, then you can use the iOS native api:
https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/documentation/DataManagement/Conceptual/EventKitProgGuide/ReadingAndWritingReminders/ReadingAndWritingReminders.html

Saving text data from iPad application as a note which can be opened from notes app?

Using the UIDocumentInteractionController, you can send a document/file to another application. All application on iOS would register with the system the file extension that they can handle. Apple provides a sample project, DocInteraction demonstrating some of these document interaction. Please note: UIDocumentInteractionController not working in iPad Simulator (XCode 3.2.3). The sample project does work on the device.

The Notes.app doesn't register any such extension. Please send Apple an enhancement request for this feature. If enough people makes this request, they might add it into future release.

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