Format of blob in column ZDATA in table ZICNOTEDATA

[andreasmihm]

what is the format of this blob column in the notes table structure?
How to convert it to readable text?

[richinfante]

Apologies for the delay. Apple's changed the formats for notes recently, so this tool may not be up to date yet.

I'm not sure exactly what the format of this column is yet, but here's some encodings you might want to look into:

• binary plist (apple is really fond of these)
• utf8 text

[threeplanetssoftware]

I have a few write ups of how to turn this column into the note data here in these articles. It ends up essentially being a protobuf and the bits I have figured out are documented in this protoc. You should be able to compile that to javascript and run with it pretty quickly.

I hope this helps!