To do this, tap the “Settings” icon on the Home screen. On the Settings screen, tap “Mail, Contacts, Calendars”. Tap the account for which you want to enable Notes. Anything listed below the account name is enabled for that account. For my Personal Gmail account, Mail, Contacts, and Calendars are enabled, but not Notes. The screen for the selected account lists items that can be synced with that account. Tap the “Notes” slider button.
The slider button for Notes turns green to indicate it’s enabled. Now, go back to the Home screen and tap the “Notes” icon to open the app. In the Notes app, you’ll see a section for your Gmail account. Any notes created under this account will sync with your Gmail account and be available by logging into your Gmail account in a web browser on a computer or in the Gmail app on other mobile devices. To create a note that will be synced with your Gmail account, tap “Notes” under the Gmail account name in the Notes app.
NOTE: You cannot create your own folders in your Gmail account in the Notes app. You can only add notes to the default “Notes” folder. Tap the new note button in the bottom-right corner of the screen. Create your note and then tap the “Notes” back link in the upper-left corner of the screen.
On the screen listing the notes in your Gmail account, tap the back arrow in the upper-left corner of the screen. The number of notes in your Gmail account displays to the right of the Notes folder. Log into your Gmail account in a web browser on your computer. The note we added displays in the list under the Notes label.
Click on it to view the full note. Note that syncing notes with your Gmail account is a one-way sync. You can edit the notes under the Gmail account in the Notes app on your iOS device, but not in your Gmail account. You can only view them. However, you can delete notes under the Notes label in your Gmail account and they will be deleted on your iOS device as well.
Conversely, if you delete a note under your Gmail account in the Notes app, it will be deleted in your Gmail account. The deletion of the note may not happen immediately. …and the note you deleted on your iOS device will no longer be in your Gmail account. If you disable Notes in your Gmail account on your iOS device, any notes under that account in the Notes app are deleted on your iOS device, but they remain in your Gmail account.
If you re-enable Notes for your Gmail account, the notes in that account are synced back to your iOS device. Notes created in a Gmail account in the Notes app are only synced with your Gmail account, not with iCloud. Notes you want backed up to your iCloud account must be created under the iCloud account in the Notes app. However, you can also move notes from your Gmail account to your iCloud account just like you can move notes from “On My iPhone” to iCloud. You can also find out more about using the Notes app to organize your thoughts.
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It was previously impossible to easily synchronize your iPhone's notes between devices, but yesterday's iOS4 firmware update adds a feature capable of saving notes directly—and conveniently—to your Gmail account. Using Google Sync we've been able to sync Google Calendars, Mail, and Contacts to iPhones for a while now, but the ability to transfer Notes in either direction remained relatively untouched.
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