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Notes, URLs, Phone Numbers, and Other Small Bits of Data

Notes, URLs, Phone Numbers, and Other Small Bits of Data

Sometimes the most frustrating aspect of the smartphone/desktop wall
comes when you want to move short piece of information between the two.

When the iPhone was first introduced (before copy and paste), often your
best (tedious and most annoying option) option required you to manually
transcribe text off the iPhone’s screen or off your desktop—not
terribly efficient on a software keyboard. Now plenty of applications
are great at transferring little pieces of data, such as URLs or text
files, between your computer and your iPhone. (For more feature-rich
one-way tools, jump down to the desktop-to-iPhone section below.)

Simplenote

In terms of quick, plain-text note creation, our favorite tool for the job is Simplenote.
It’s fast, and you can quickly input or paste text into Simplenote in a
few seconds. Any note you add (from your desktop or iOS device) will
instantly sync to the web, to desktop note-taking applications like Notes (Windows) and Notational Velocity, and to Simplenote on your iPhone. [Free, iTunes App Store]

Evernote

When you need more than just plain text, Evernote’s got you covered.
Like Simpelnote, it syncs notes between the Evernote desktop and iOS
apps, but you can also add photos and voice memos to your notes, and
Evernote’s service will perform optical character recognition (OCR) on
your photos so you can search the text within them—a great tool when
paired with your iPhone’s camera. For example, if you take a series of
photos of book covers that interest you, you can search for one of the
titles you remember when you get home and Evernote will recognize the
title of the book even though it’s part of a photo. If you’re looking to
expand Evernote even further and are willing to shell out a few bucks
($4 to be exact), Awesome Note syncs with both
Evernote and Google Docs. It’ll let you draw your notes, too, all of
which is synced back to a computer-accessible location. [Free, iTunes App Store]

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