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Finally! Sync notes off your iPhone or iPod Touch

I realize this is a very niche-y thing to write about, but I’m really excited about this (yes, I’m a geek) and I’m guessing there are lots of other iPhone users out there who have been frustrated with the lack of notes synchronization. For crying out loud, the phone can find my geographic location using a combination of cell phone tower triangulation, nearby wifi hotspots and global positioning sattelite, but it can’t get notes from my phone to my computer??

Can you tell I was a bit bugged about it?

Last week Note*spark was released. For two bucks, notes will sync from your phone to a web app and vice-versa. You can tag notes (work, personal, to do, etc.), email them to people and even share notes for collaboration. For example, you could have share your grocery list with your spouse so it can be updated from the web or your phone and it’s always up-to-date. Perhaps best of all, you can add and edit notes even if you don’t have a data connection and it will sync when you get back in range.

There’s only one thing I’d realistically expect from the app that isn’t included, and that’s typing in landscape mode. I emailed the creators and they said they’re already working on that feature for a future, free update.

Note*spark is selling for an intoductory price of $1.99 (soon to be $4.99) and is well worth it. Heck, my wife would have probably given me fifty dollars to spend on it just to keep me from complaining about the lack of this feature.

While this may sound like a paid ad for Note*spark, it’s not. It’s just a good app that has been tremendously useful and, dare I say it? has actually gone a long way in simplifying my previous notes experience which entailed composing an email, addressing it, sending it, retrieving it on my computer and then copying and pasting the contents to another file.

You can check out more about Note*spark by clicking here (iTunes link).

Do you have any other must-have apps for the iPhone, iPod Touch or even Blackberry/other smartphone? Please leave word in the comments!

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