gip.py - a simple application for working with iOS Notes in an IMAP mailbox via the command line.

At present, only Gmail is supported.

Usage

List all notes

list displays a summary of the notes on the server

$python gip.py --username <your-gmail-address> list
Enter password for <your-gmail-address>:
('1', 'Thu, 06 Jan 2011 18:15:14 -0800', 'Note 1')
('2', 'Sun, 17 Apr 2011 10:11:27 -0700', 'Note 2')
...

Show a note

show displays the full contents of a single note

$python gip.py --username <your-gmail-address> show 1
Enter password for <your-gmail-address>:
Subject: Note 1
From: You Name <your-gmail-address>
X-Universally-Unique-Identifier: E3861089-EAD5-4DB0-BBDB-E4138ED2DD48
Content-Type: text/html;
        charset=utf-8
X-Uniform-Type-Identifier: com.apple.mail-note
Message-Id: <someId>
Date: Thu, 06 Jan 2011 18:15:14 -0800
X-Mail-Created-Date: Tue, 04 Jan 2011 10:51:19 -0800
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Mime-Version: 1.0 (iPhone Mail 8C148a)

<div>Note 1</div>

Edit a note

edit launches $EDITOR to upload a new version of an existing note. Behind the scenes, the old note is removed and the new one appended.

$python gip.py --username <your-gmail-address> show 1
Enter password for <your-gmail-address>:

Add a note

add launches $EDITOR to append a new note

$python gip.py --username <your-gmail-address> add
Enter password for <your-gmail-address>: