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rcarmo wrote 9 hours 6 min ago:
Nice idea, although I fear it will break due to AppleScript. I might
take some time to investigate doing it all as a Swift CLI.
preezer wrote 19 hours 23 min ago:
Maybe consider a name change. There is another very popular app with
the same name which does some other stuff...
giancarlostoro wrote 21 hours 24 min ago:
How is this different to Obsidian which has a nice UI, supports
importing Apple Notes and iCloud Sync works and is free.
linkage wrote 16 hours 28 min ago:
Obsidian still does not support iOS widgets. I use the app, but it's
honestly still a major annoyance, since I cannot add to-dos with one
swipe as I would be able to do with Apple Notes.
dtkav wrote 13 hours 7 min ago:
Widgets are in the current insider build, so they should be
available to everyone soon.
daotoad wrote 19 hours 48 min ago:
I was about to say "Obsidian is free as long as you don't use it for
work."
But it turns out that that is no longer the case. [1] Obsidian is now
actually free for everyone.
URI [1]: https://obsidian.md/blog/free-for-work/
devilsdata wrote 20 hours 9 min ago:
The big benefit is that you get to use the Apple Notes app. I prefer
Apple Notes on my phone, to be honest. I haven't used Obsidian's app
on iOS in over a year.
I personally put all my work-related dev notes in Obsidian, and all
my life-related quick notes in Apple Notes.
dc_giant wrote 22 hours 7 min ago:
Awesome will try this for sure!
mcdow wrote 22 hours 15 min ago:
This is awesome! Iâve been looking for a way to batch export my notes
out of Apple notes, will this work for that purpose?
I totally agree with you that most notes apps miss the mark. Iâm
working on one now which I hope satisfies the same requirements as
Apple notes(dead simple, iCloud sync, free) but has some things I want
(improved search, first class markdown support).
Iâve been using it as my daily driver for a while, but itâs not
quite ready for other users yet. I wrote a bit about it in my year in
review[1] under the section âNot Another Notes App!â.
1.
URI [1]: https://emmettmcdow.com/posts/2025-in-review
bnchrch wrote 21 hours 56 min ago:
Came here to find out exactly this!
This is an awesome tool. Would love to get started in 2026 with all
my notes (without an id) being synced to a markdown folder / repo
kbouck wrote 22 hours 19 min ago:
on my iphone the readme ascii art title gets truncated to just "STASI"
:-)
been looking for something like this! will definitely check it out.
ferfumarma wrote 22 hours 28 min ago:
I think the name is not unique enough
viccis wrote 22 hours 23 min ago:
Yeah there's a popular self hosted media server designed for... other
purposes
stogot wrote 22 hours 34 min ago:
I will have to try this.
Question: is there a way to make this automatic on state changes? I had
an issue recently where a child accidentally overwrote my huge Apple
notes and I couldnât undo the change, or restore my history
I lost a lot of work
shuka wrote 1 day ago:
I've used Apple Notes for years because it syncs fast and stays out of
the way. But when I'm writing in the terminal, there's always been
friction getting Markdown into Apple Notes.
Existing tools were either bloated or read-only. So I built Stash: push
a Markdown file to Apple Notes, pull changes back. It uses YAML
frontmatter to track which note belongs to which file.
Built with Bash, AppleScript, and Pandoc. No databases, no daemons, no
config files. Install via Homebrew.
Happy to take suggestions and answer questions about the quirks I ran
into along the way.
d4rkp4ttern wrote 2 hours 35 min ago:
Sounds very useful! Does it handle images in both directions ?
nemosaltat wrote 8 hours 24 min ago:
>Happy to take suggestions and answer questions about the quirks I
ran into along the way.
Got up out of bed from doomscrolling to play with/implement this! My
less-technical partner tends to reach for Apple Notes and I have
offered/threatened to make something, but they've kept (begrudgingly)
relaunching VSCode after a "oof, I know it was just real quick."
Thanks for the inspiration/headstart.
happyopossum wrote 19 hours 20 min ago:
This looks cool, so obviously I have questions!
Does it support pushing to personal/home/this-is-my-note.md, or does
everything wind up in the Notes root?
It appears notes have to start out externally in order to "stash
pull" them, is that the case?
thanks!
Someone wrote 19 hours 46 min ago:
âFunâ. In the latest MacOS, Apple Notes supports markdown export
( [1] ), but not through its AppleScript dictionary.
So yes, it seems you do need Pandoc to do html-to-markdown and vice
versa.
URI [1]: https://support.apple.com/en-md/guide/notes/not201900c07/mac
nozzlegear wrote 22 hours 6 min ago:
I love Apple Notes, but I also love writing in vim; looks like I can
finally reconcile those two things thanks to your project. Nice work!
> questions about the quirks
I've used a decent amount of AppleScript to automate things on my
Mac, so I know it's a powerful tool but not easy to just jump into,
even when you're already familiar with that bizarre syntax. What
kinds of quirks did you run into?
angst_ridden wrote 22 hours 25 min ago:
How hard would it be to extend this to support bulk export of Apple
Notes?
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