Because it writes into the Notes app rather than a private store, a note captured during a conversation is on your phone a moment later without any additional plumbing. Retrieval is by exact title, so descriptive titles are not a style preference here — they are how you get the note back. The author flags that the project is not actively maintained, which is worth weighing before it becomes part of a daily workflow.
A small AppleScript-backed bridge to the Apple Notes app on macOS. It works against the account already configured on the machine, so notes created here appear on your other devices through iCloud.
- Create a note from a title and content, with optional tags for organisation
- Search notes by title and get back the list of matching note titles
- Retrieve the full content of a note by its exact title
- Notes go to the Notes account already set up on the machine, so they sync the way your other notes do
macOS with Apple Notes configured, Node.js 20.0.0 or higher, and Yarn. Build from a checkout with `yarn build` and run with `yarn start`; the client points at the repository directory. macOS asks you to authorise access to Notes the first time a command runs. The README states the project is not actively maintained.
Build from source — clone the repository and build it, then point your client at the binary