Open Radar

 
Summary:
When creating a new HTML note in Notes.app with AppleScript, Notes.app re-formats the inserted note text inappropriately. This bug only presents itself when creating new notes in an iCloud folder. Creating notes in a non-iCloud folder appears to present no issues.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open Notes.app.
2. Create a folder called “Radar Test”.
3. Run the following in a terminal to bring up the interactive AppleScript interpreter:

$ osascript -il JavaScript

4. Paste the following code into the interpreter.

    var app = Application('Notes');
    app.includeStandardAdditions = true;
    app.activate();

    var folder = app.folders.byName("Radar Test");
    folder.notes.push(app.Note({
        'name': "My New Note",
        'body': "<ul><li>One</li><li>Two</li></ul>"
    }));

5. Read HTML content of note by pasting the following into the interpreter:

    app.notes.byName("My New Note").body()



Expected Results:
The note body should be “<div>My New Note</div>\n<div><br></div>\n<ul>\n<li>One</li>\n<li>Two</li>\n</ul>\n”, the same output which occurs if you manually edit the created note to contain a bulleted list with the same items (“One” and “Two”).

Actual Results:
The note body is "<div>My New Note</div>\n<div><br></div>\n<div>\t•\tOne</div>\n<div>\t•\tTwo</div>\n”.

Also observe that the original line breaks have been removed.

Version:
Notes.app 4.2 (555.10.42)