Notebooks for iPhone Answers

First of all, there is no quick or easy way. If you are trying to do this with just your iPhone or iPad it can't be done; you'll need your regular PC or Mac. The iPhone and iPod touch do not allow you to directly import notes that you have already created in the native Notes application. With a few steps, however, you can transfer them into Notebooks:

-Back up your iPhone or iPod touch through iTunes
-Download the iPhone Backup Extractor for Mac
-Launch the application and click Read Backups
-Choose the latest backup
-From the presented list, choose iPhone OS Files and click Extract
-Select a location to store the extracted files

On a PC you could use mobilesync-inspect, the procedure for extracting the notes.db file is a bit different, but explained in the Readme file.

In the chosen location you will now find a folder “iPhone OS FIles”. In this folder, go to Library -> Notes and import the file notes.db into Notebooks. You can do so by:
-dropping the file into a shared book (see WiFi Sharing)
-putting the file on a WebDAV server and synchronize Notebooks
-importing the file with SyncDocs
-putting the file into your SyncDocs or WebDAV sync folder and synchronize

Notebooks shows the document notes.db with a generic icon. When you open it by tapping on its name, Notebooks will extract the notes into the new book iPhone Notes. The notes.db file will be deleted.

This may be a bit manual. But... Why not just copy and paste them? One at a time. Seems less complicated than the above instructions. However, if the update is near, importing the notes would be excellent!