If that’s what you *think* just happened, then check this:
- Settings App
- ..Mail, Calendar, etc
- ….your Gmail account
- ……the “Notes” slider; is is set to “off”?
If so, flip it to ON, find a working wifi / 3G signal, and your documents will miraculously re-appear.
For most people, there is no way they want Gmail ripping all their private documents off the iPad – but this is apprently how Apple stupidly coded the Notes app.
You don’t get a choice; if that slider is “ON”, all your private stuff is deleted locally and saved to Gmail. There’s no warning, no user-interface to tell you it’s doing this – everything is silent. There’s also – so far as I can tell – no way to “reclaim” your documents and get them put back on the iPad, where they belong. Where Apple pretended they were in the first place.
If you ever accidentally hit that switch, all your documents just vanish.
What happens if you have no network connectivity, or lose 3G signal? Again, it seems you lose your documents.
Moral of the story: never, ever trust software written by a hardware company that refuses software engineering standard practices.