Sending notes to PC as text - ColorNote

rothe · Feb 1, 2017

I use ColorNote note all the time while in the field for taking notes about my repair efforts. But I usually want to transfer those notes to my laptop for ultimate entry into my invoicing program. ColorNote's option to send via Bluetooth gets the file across easily.

The problem is that ColorNote uses HTML formatting for its files. When the file comes over to the laptop, I can open it with a browser, or notepad, but it loses all paragraph formatting in the process. It's just one great big long string of text.

Got any ideas about how I can retain the same paragraph formatting that I had in ColorNote on the phone?

Thom · Feb 1, 2017

I have two accounts ... email and gmail.

I use y PC to process all public email.
The email account is accessed on the PC and known everywhere as my email address.
The gmail account is accessed on my Android devices and not known to anyone but me.

I sent messages to my PC from my Android devices using gmail.
I sent messages to my Android devices from my PC using email.
These messages can contain attachments.

... Thom

rothe · Feb 1, 2017

So it sounds like you don't use ColorNote, do you?

Thom · Feb 1, 2017

Yes ...

Share / Gmail / email account

It arrives at the PC as an HTML formatted email message with the note in the text of the message.

... Thom

Saleem7637 · Feb 1, 2017

I don't think there is a way to do that. Use Microsoft OneNote available in Playstore and install it in your PC. Once saved note in mobile, the note is synced in Microsoft account and note will appear in PC as well when connected via internet.

rothe · Feb 2, 2017

Actually, Bluetooth transfers the same HTML file. The transfer mechanism is not the problem, but rather it is the formatting. What would solve my problem entirely would be some HTML editing program on the PC side that correctly picks up the paragraph markers that ColorNote uses.

I will have to dig up some kind of binary editor and see what I can do with it. Unless anybody here has any other ideas???

Thom · Feb 2, 2017

Outlook and Word on the PC ... example ...

---
This is a text color note.
Paragraph two.
Paragraph three.

On Outlook it displays correctly as a formatted message.

Copy/paste into Word document.
---

Copied from Outlook and pasted into this post.

... Thom

rothe · Feb 3, 2017

That's a great solution if you already have those applications, but it's a very expensive solution to a simple problem if you haven't already bought in to Outlook/Office.

Still looking....

zuben el genub · Feb 3, 2017

Won't Libre Office work? It does much of the same.

rothe · Feb 3, 2017

LibreOffice Writer handles the files the same way that Notepad does. I have/use LibreOffice and it's a great alternative to Word, but it's still more program than should be necessary for this simple file import and conversion.

I just opened a ColorNote HTML file with a binary/hex editor and was finally able to see the problem. ColorNote delineates a paragraph end with a line feed character (ASCII 10). Carriage return characters are not used, nor are HTML codes for line break or new paragraph that would be properly picked up by many (most?) other programs.

As I just found out, only WordPad (on my Win10 system) picks up that line feed character the way I used it for new lines/paragraphs in ColorNote.

So the simplest, "most lightweight" solution that I found to send and convert ColorNote notes from my phone to invoice text in QuickBooks on my laptop is to:

1) Send the file via Bluetooth from phone to laptop
2) Open the resulting HTML file with WordPad
3) Copy and paste from WordPad into QuickBooks

Good enough for me.

zuben el genub · Feb 4, 2017

At least it's free. Replaced the Vulcan's Office 97 with it so he could open his old files.

Some of us don't use W10.

Pavan Kumar Yogi · Feb 9, 2021

We can send(upload) colornote notes to google drive from an android phone. Now open that notes in google drive using docs viewer. Google docs retain all formating of the colornote notes intact.

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