Sync only Specific notes with Ipod

Does anyone know a way (i may be missing something obvious here)

Hot to have ipod only sync certain notes. I have a lot of older notes notes in mail. I have made a sub folder under mail and put them in there but i still want to be able to get to them. i don't want to carry all of them with me on the touch. Is there a way to either, make itunes ignore older or specific notes or to export old notes out of mail so they can be retrieved if needed so they can be deleted for now.