I love the windows 7 sticky note app and need to write a quick script to copy my notes to my iphone (easier than bringing a laptop to meetings). How can I extract my notes from the stick notes file (C:\Users\USER\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Sticky Notes\StickNotes.snt). The file stores undo entries, or other meta data, for each note, so I can't simply read n bytes from the start of a note.
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Sample file – http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?qzgkj5gmdek
The encoding is difficult for me to decode. Text fragments aren't continuous, they're broken up by deleted strings (probably allowing for a per-sticky undo), and there aren't any clear delimiters. There is a forensic app that decodes the files. App description, taken from website…
http://www.simplecarver.com/exchange/articles/article-4.html
Structured Storage Extractor is a utility for reading and extracting information from the Structured storage format (ole container) files.
Apparently the data is stored in an OLE stream format. I tried using the PEAR OLE Library but it didn't read the stream properly :/.
Best Answer
You can use 7-Zip for extracting the file, then copy the
0file from each folder somewhere using the RTF file extension. Then you could use LibreOffice for converting the notes from RTF to PDF, for example. You could put this in a script, something along these lines: