how do I get the “notes” files off my nokia phone?

Question

I tend to write notes to myself as sms messages, but notes can be three times longer so that would be very handy, but I can't get them off the phone to copy and paste into documents I'm working on (there are a couple of programs from nokia which allow me to download text messages to my computer or read them and copy/paste).

I can send them between phones via Bluetooth, but I can't send them to my computer.

I have both of Nokia's PC programs installed, I can't find any way to access "notes" in PC suite. It seems I could sync notes in ovi if I had outlook installed, but I don't have outlook.

Surely they're stored on the phone somewhere? but when I look at the phone in Windows Explorer all I can access are the photos, videos, and sound files.

Answer 1

Except synchronizing them to Outlook you have two other choices:

1. Send them to the PC via Bluetooth one by one (as you already found out), or mark them and send all the marked ones once (on the PC side you will be asked where to save for every single one, but apart from the need to press OK multiple times, it's not that bad)

2. Backup the phone with PC Suite/Ovi Suite (only the Notes section), and then open the .nbu file generated by backup with NbuExplorer. You will be able to see them in the Memo section and do whatever you like with them (export to a file, copy/paste from them etc)