What do you use your Notes section of your ipod for?

Tomo_kun -- What does that have to do with genuine fraud's post? Kinda off topic, ya think? :confused:

Sometimes I put my grocery list on the ipod. Comes in handy to listen to my favorite songs while I buy ketchup and onions.

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books, mate. do a lot of reading on my 'pod...though it's crappy we can't hav pics...unless hmm i get an ipod photo, then i might b able to link bits of the text to the picture that's supposed to go there..

Not a DAMN thing!

Originally posted by baggss
Not a DAMN thing!

What he said, I used to have some Phone #'s on it but I deleted them on accident so I said screw it, and I never put them back:D

I use google get it loads up my note section with the latest google news and my weather info everytime I connect my ipod to my computer. Then I use ipod agent and it loads my RSS feeds, and movie times. I have a ton of notes in there now =).

i once tried to put all of my lyrics on there...but i gave up.

Recipes, Lyrics and Cheat notes to use during tests...:D

Originally posted by Nickster
I use google get it loads up my note section with the latest google news and my weather info everytime I connect my ipod to my computer. Then I use ipod agent and it loads my RSS feeds, and movie times. I have a ton of notes in there now =).

Cool how do you do that? Did you have to hack it?

Next up on the Lounge....

Useing 'Notes' make you dumber then useing E-Mail... :D <jk>

Boy and I though typeing on my SonyEriccson T-610 would be a B*tch! :p

i have a rather large list of things i need to buy... CDs, etc...

If you're on a Mac and you want to put stuff on the iPod over 4kb, use Book2Pod, it's in the software section of this site. It's a little freeware app that will split it down into 4kb chunks that link to each other.

In my Notes section, I have Pod2Go stuff (driving directions, weather, local movie listings, news, unread email) and StickyBrain (a Mac app) syncs with iPod. I sync notes with stuff like weight & measure conversions, lists of area codes, reference things like that. I also have a couple books (Tao Teh Ching, Art of War) in there through StickyBrain.

I'm a university instructor so that's interesting about using it for cheating -- I'll have to watch out for that.

So how do I get these notes on to my iPod? I'd love to store recipes and grocery lists but I've never used the Notes before.

Originally posted by genuine fraud
Those are all great ideas... recently, i tried to put the screenplay for star wars episode III into my notes, but then discovered the 4kb limit on notes :\

You can use this to put the screenplay on the iPod
http://www.ambience.sk/ipod-ebook-creator/ipod-book-notes-text-conversion.php
This one is online only and

Or use iPod Library http://sturm.t35.com/ipodlibrary/index.htm
This one can be downloaded to your desktop.

Originally posted by trixbunnyfan
Since I've recently started listening to podcasts, I'm almost always behind.

Now all I do is keep a note on my ipod with bookmarks for various podcasts I listen to and it's so easy to remember. (I've got a horrible memory.)

If only there were a way to edit the notes on the ipod, my podcast bookmark note would be even easier!

Just convert your podcasts to AAC in iTunes, then, if you're on a Mac, climb down (It's really not designed to support you--what're you thinking?!?), go to Doug's AppleScript Archive, and get "Make Bookmarkable". That way, you can listen to them at faster speed, too, and not be so far behind!:D

Personally, I use the Notes with StickyBrain so all my Stickies are on there, plus stuff like the U.S. Constitution, Bill of Rights, etc.

Originally posted by doulos12
Just convert your podcasts to AAC in iTunes, then, if you're on a Mac, climb down (It's really not designed to support you--what're you thinking?!?), go to Doug's AppleScript Archive, and get "Make Bookmarkable". That way, you can listen to them at faster speed, too, and not be so far behind!:D

Personally, I use the Notes with StickyBrain so all my Stickies are on there, plus stuff like the U.S. Constitution, Bill of Rights, etc.

If only I were a Mac user...

It's the only option for me right now on a PC.

Originally posted by trixbunnyfan
If only I were a Mac user...

It's the only option for me right now on a PC.
Does someone know how to do this on a PC? It's just a matter of changing the file type. Try changing the suffix to .m4b and see what happens. You can always change it back if that doesn't work.

Barring that, you could get a Mac... :D

I use mine for poems and stories that I've written. It's organized using that Notes System app that someone made. (Can't remember who made it or where I got it.)

Originally posted by trixbunnyfan
If only I were a Mac user...

It's the only option for me right now on a PC.

Here is a simplified guide to making a bookmarkable file using only iTunes:
http://forums.ipodlounge.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=77884

There are also links to the full guides there.

- Mactracker takes up the most - 300 notes about.
- Then I've got a load of jokes (Dirty Pocket Jokes - hilarious jokes intended for java phones, but - I made myself an iPod version), which take up some more.
- I had some ASCII art, but it needed a fixed width font, so it kinda messed up so i took it off.
- Basic Party Knowledge, one of those party things - pretty good.
- Casio codes, for the CMD40 watch of mine that can control TVs
- Michael Jackson jokes - lots of repeats but damn funny and so many I haven't gone through them all yet.
- OTG_Notes.txt - I type into it using iPodLinux! www.ipodlinux.org
- Podgroumet and podgourmet VE demos
- Podmeals
- Podtender 1.0
- Pod2Go daily syncs - lyrics, news (ipodlounge!) and weather (wunderground, but it's pretty bad for where I live in europe)
- humor.catweasel.org - I'm releasing a program soon to download this to iPods
- iPodLinux forums downloader program (I wrote, will release with jokes one)
- Joy of Tech (needs iPodLinux for the images)
- Weather (BBC and meteo suisse - will be in iPod Sync program I'll release shortly)
- Bible, download using PodWord! http://peterburk.free.fr/podword (my program)
- Text from St Patrick's breastplate, cause it's cool.
= 839 Notes (out of 1000)

BTW, check out http://peterburk.free.fr/pint if you want to read books on your iPod. I use it for the jokes digest.

cya,
-Pete-

I've made no attempt at all really to utilize the notes function except for having transferred the listing of my DVD, CD and book libraries from Delicious Library. Not useful in the slightest, of course. :)

I need to change my fake names though...

A complete history of F1, champions, race winners points totals etc google: iknowF1

The obligatory Cinema listings and weather reports via ipodagent ( news isn't really useful for me neither is email since I keep up to date with both the information on my ipod always gets out of date)

Some books, I've got some Terry Pratchett and 1984 on there

A periodic table with a lot of info about elements, atomic mass, radius etc. google: periodicpod

Some Shakespeare and the US Constitution

Some other miscellaneous information. I might put some measurement conversions on there, that's always useful. Some other useful stuff i'll put on there are radio frequencies and some useful phone numbers.

I may have missed it but how do you get Google news on the notes?

kind of a good idea but I don't plan on losing mine any time soon :)

OK i have a question that'll make me sound blonde, but on the ipod photo 30 gb you can only hold 4kb of text per note?

liked the idea for news/cinema listing etc via ipod agent. i was thinking local train & bus times'd be pretty useful too. I'm doing a quick cocktail list now before i go on holiday to croatia; yesterday i trawled a bunch of translation sites for popular phrases (as well as transcribing some of my own) plus local info & customs etc, saves taking a dictionary.

If more & more people start doing this it'd be worth having people's efforts uploaded, plus (ideally) someone to write a little app that'll do the stitching work, e.g. for the bartender thing something that'd make a menu page with a simple list of each drink name linked to an individual page for each one, BUT with an option to add queries & searches, so that you could have a link called "vodka drinks" with a query "page contains 'vodka'"
Ipodlounge, you fancy hosting? it'd be smaaaaaaaall....
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I'm a windows user, why the hell does every single text document I put in notes end up being 20 KB? What am I doing wrong? I use Microsoft Word.

i put lyrics for hard to understand songs (i.e. louie louie hahaha) and things along that line. i also use it to store driving directions to places (i travel alot, and of course always bring my ipod with me, so it makes perfect sense to do so!) and finally i use it to store bookmarks so if im away from my computer, i can still go to websites that i need. i keep my usb cable on me at all times, so i dont have to manually type in those url's. i can just hook up, then copy-paste from that txt file :D

has anyone ever downloaded album reviews for their notes? i think it would be kinda cool but not sure if i can be bothered to go through with it for all of my library. would love a program like ipodagent to automatically download a review for new albums that youve just added

Just a random question:

What do you guys use the "Notes" feature for on your iPod?

I personally don't use them anymore. I went through a cooking phase where I would put up all these recipes and stuff... then I tried lyrics at one point, but now it's sort of a useless feature (as my nano displays them if I want to take the time to put it on there).

I got WiPod, a wifi hotspot locator, dun work too good, and MacTracker, has info on every mac, and a few drinks

I have the Constitution which got me out of trouble when I had it out in study hall. Actually we can have it in study hall anyway, but my social studies teacher really liked it.

Its got my personal info in it, so if I ever lose my iPod, the person who finds it will know who to return it to. :)

I copy the text of any audiobooks I actually listen to into it... not that I often listen to any.

OK I want a few things on my notes section. could someone tell me how to get them on plz:

1) The google weather and news
2) Books
3) Movie times
4) Stuff to buy (CDs, DVDs etc.)

Do i have to type it all in or is there another way to get it onto the ipod?

Originally posted by david_safc
OK I want a few things on my notes section. could someone tell me how to get them on plz:

1) The google weather and news
2) Books
3) Movie times
4) Stuff to buy (CDs, DVDs etc.)

Do i have to type it all in or is there another way to get it onto the ipod?

Indeed I would also like to know how to get the weather and news.

I put Lyrics...but I used to put Emeril's recipes as well as a Mac database of all Mac products.