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what I like about the notes app is that it can use imap to store notes. So they’re in-sync without iCloud and accessible from any imap client.

The app itself is a bit annoying though with forced auto-spelling and a clunky feeling. Would love to find another app that relies on imap, but haven’t found any (admit to not looking too much)

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What do you mean by forced auto-spelling? You can turn that on and off in the Edit menu just like in any other macos text field.

hehe I guess I missed it? Thank you. never spent long enough on the app to tweak the settings, even though I think I tried to look up the preferences and couldn’t find it there

Nothing to do with this app. That’s an OS-wide preference available in EVERY app.

Unless it’s an Electron turd, in which case YMMV regarding system services and interface conventions. :p

I’ve written myself a terminal based note taking app that uses IMAP and MIME/Maildir as a storage backend: https://github.com/knazarov/notes.sh

What do you mean by IMAP? Isn’t it a mail sync thing? Or can you use it some other way?

IMAP is read/write and holds the mail on the server (unlike POP).

If you go into your internet accounts settings and tick "notes". Notes will surface it and stores notes in folders on the mail server. (Not all of notes functionality is available in the notes stored in those folders.)

That's a big proviso in parenthesis. I would go as far as saying that most functionality is not available, unfortunately.

Apple’s visual voicemail on the iPhone also syncs using IMAP hosted by your carrier.

So does the Notes app, at least for Google accounts.

IMAP is basically a file access protocol (think FTP), but the "files" are emails. You don't have to just pull from an INBOX and save emails in Sent (that's done over IMAP, not SMTP), you can read/create/modify anything anywhere, so some apps save notes to IMAP for some reason (to replace "self-emails" I guess).

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