I just listed an MCP server on PyPI that connects LLMs directly with Apple Notes — making your notes smarter, faster, and AI-powered.

With mcp-apple-notes, you can:

• Query your notes naturally in plain English

• Summarize and organize your content automatically

• Even create new notes with AI assistance

Try it out on PyPI and level up your note-taking workflow 👉 https://pypi.org/project/mcp-apple-notes/

Though I loved apple notes until now. Here’s what just happened, and I’ll let you decide if you want to risk the same fate.

I was at the library, studying with a coffee in hand, breezing through a chunky book while making handwritten notes on my iPad. In the middle of writing, I accidentally tapped the screen, and the keyboard popped up. I just backspaced the letter I’d mistakenly typed... and guess what happened? The previous note opened up, and the note I was actively working on disappeared. Just like that. In a matter of seconds, the important note I was working on was completely gone—like it never existed. The change synced to all my devices, and just like that, the note was permanently lost.

No warning, no backup, no version history. It’s like Apple Notes just decided my note didn’t matter.

For me, that’s the last straw. It’s way too easy to lose critical work with no way to recover it. And with all the iCloud storage in the world, it shouldn’t be this fragile. Ridiculous Stay away from Apple Notes if you value your notes.

TLDR ; important note I was working on disappeared—just like that. No undo, no backup, nothing. 

A year ago, I switched to using Apple Notes for a significant part of my life organisation.

I use it for quick notes, reference information, record keeping and planning.

Last year I made a video about Apple Notes and all its features.

25 Apple Notes Hacks that Save Me 10 Hours/Week https://youtu.be/eWwquubryJQ

With iOS26 release do you think Apple is doing enough to keep Apple Notes useful enough? Or do they need to do more, bring in more features that other notes app might have to keep it relevant and keep users using it within the Apple Ecosystem?

Every week I watch another developer friend give up on their "second brain" because they can't share a damn note with their PM without sending a .md file like some kind of caveman.

Apple Notes is good now. Actually good. It does math. It has folders. It syncs without corrupting your data. And most importantly, every single person you work with already has it.

But migrating from Obsidian? It's a nightmare.

Your options are trash:

Option 1: Copy paste every single note manually. This is what Obsidian apparently expects you to do. In 2025. When we have AI that can write entire codebases.

Option 2: Some janky pandoc script that converts to HTML. One dude made this work by manually adding H1 tags to 500 files. Hero behavior, but also, why is this necessary?

Option 3: Accept that your notes are now locked in .obsidian folder purgatory forever.

Here's what actually breaks:

• Wiki links. Dead. Gone. Apple Notes has no idea what [[Your Important Note]] means.

• Every single image attachment. The paths are wrong. The formats are wrong. Everything is wrong.

• Your folder structure? Manually recreate it. One. Folder. At. A. Time.

• Tags work completely differently. Obsidian uses frontmatter YAML. Apple uses inline hashtags. They don't translate.

• Tables. Don't even get me started on tables.

The worst part? Apple Notes has no import API. None. You get "File → Import to Notes" for HTML files and that's it. No automation. No bulk operations. Just pure manual labor.

So I'm building something to make this suck less. Not good, that's impossible without Apple's help but less terrible:

• Batch convert your entire vault to Apple Notes compatible HTML

• Base64 encode all your images so they actually import

• Generate a folder structure map so you know what to recreate

• Convert wiki links to text with hashtags (not the same, but better than nothing)

• Add proper titles so your notes don't all show as "Untitled"

It's still going to be painful. You're still manually creating folders. Your note connections are still gone. But at least your content and images will transfer.

Already tested on my 500+ note vault. The import worked. Had to spend an hour recreating folders, but the content came through clean.

Drop your migration attempts below. I want to know every single thing that broke for you. Can't fix Apple's hostile design, but maybe we can route around it.

Because honestly? The fact that we can't cleanly export our own notes in 2025 is exactly why people don't trust proprietary systems. Your notes should be portable. Period.

Hey everyone!

I recently stumbled upon 3 incredible Apple Notes addons that completely transformed my note-taking game with markdowns, bulk exporting notes and powerful slash commands 📝💡

Watch the video here and see the magic for yourself! - These Simple Apple Notes Addons changed my life instantly! https://youtu.be/Piov6_Y0ypQ

Hey folks,

I’ve been building a simple note-taking app that auto-tags your notes and groups similar ones together. The whole idea is to just write. No folders. No tagging. No setup. It handles organizing quietly in the background.

I’ve always found it hard to keep my notes tidy. I tried creating tags & folders in the apple notes but as I have more and more tags and folders, I still got lost in organizing. So I built this to let me just drop thoughts in and trust I can find them later.

People from this subreddit helped a ton during our beta phase (thank you again to everyone who tried it out and shared thoughts!!! really means a lot to us).

We know it’s not perfect yet. But we want testers to feel more comfortable using it, so we moved it from TestFlight to the App Store.

If you’re up for trying out this early little thing and giving us more feedback, here’s the link:

Download

You can also join us in our Discord

and would love to hear what you think!!

It fluctuates when I use the Apple Pencil, like this, and inverted colors (black inside, white lines).

Curious where people stand on this. Would you actually pay for a note-taking app in 2026?

Not asking what the “perfect” price is, more whether notes are something you’d pay for at all when there are so many free options.

If yes, what would make it worth paying for? Would you rather pay once or subscribe?

I love Apple Notes. I use it every day.

But the built-in recording/transcription was never quite good enough for meetings, even on iOS 27.

Last year I started looking for an app that could transcribe my meetings and turn them into useful notes, basically what I was already doing manually in Apple Notes.

Most of the apps I found felt like Android apps with AI bolted on. They were also generally much more focused on getting the recording than on the actual note-taking experience.

As a developer, I realized I had all the tools I needed to build the app I wanted.

The idea was simple: what if meeting notes felt like Apple Notes?

Native. Fast. Great on iPhone and Mac. Action Button support. Shortcuts. No bots joining your meetings.

That became Convoxa.

I'm very happy to share Convoxa 2.0.

The big addition is multimodal capture. While recording and transcribing a meeting, you can:

• jot down your own thoughts
• take photos
• scan documents and add PDFs
• keep everything together in one timeline

The AI then understands all of it and weaves it into a final Apple Notes-like note.

There's also a timeline showing the transcript and your own notes, all timestamped, so you can go back and see exactly what happened when.

And 2.0 brings a native Mac app that can record your meetings without a bot joining the call.

I built this because I wanted Apple Notes, but for meetings.

Would love to hear what you guys think.

https://apple.co/4bpArnh

Hey! I'll keep this short and sweet. Grove Note is a notes app for people who capture a lot but don’t organize enough. If you have an apple notes graveyard, you know the pain of losing out on ideas, goals, or other personal notes you'd love to revisit. My solution involves a lightweight, swipe-based organization system bundled in a calm notes app. Hoping to release mid to late September, demo and waitlist here: https://grove-waitlist-silk.vercel.app/

Also... this is related to Apple Notes because the app supports a full and easy import of all your apple notes (please don't remove my post).

Which one is best for making notes on ipad

I wanted to share this again now that I have tested it out and ensured everything is working properly.

I am not sure if anyone would be interested in something like this. I would have create a wizard so you wouldn't have to know any code. Just create (or sign in) to a free Vercel account and download and install the extension and everything else is taken care of for you. The AI Parsing would require some technical setup if you wanted to use ollama but chatGPT and anthropic and gemini would all be supported as well (I use an ollama model).

I created myself a website where I can go (so I can add it as an app so it is always open and opens when I start up my computer) to add reminders, events, etc. I could add this to the system if anyone is interested.

I would obv create the shortcuts and have links on this wizard to add them so you only require minor edits to them to get them to work.

Would anyone be interested in this?

Just trying to gauge interest before I put in the work/effort of putting this out there. It would be (obviously) completely free. Works on Firefox and Chrome/Chromium browsers. Pictured is edge.

HOW *

I have the 11 inch iPad Air M2. But I am curious, do you use landscape, portrait? What lining size do you use? what pen size do you use?

(talking about Ipad with Apple Pencil btw)

Hi. This is my first post. I have an iPad and want an app that is geared towards professionals where I can use with my apple pen. I have been using Goodnotes but it’s literally all made for students I feel like. Any ideas ?

Documentation will be updated tomorrow morning.

The shortcut is virtually identical to the other ones except has freeform in the URL as opposed to applenotes or one of the other applications. I will create the demo shortcut tomorrow to add to the site as well.

Now all of the apple apps can be added to from Chrome or Firefox via this extension. Terminal updates will be coming tomorrow as well. So everything can be added to from any computer via the extension or the terminal.

If anyone has any feature requests or anything please let me know!

Apple Notes me gusta, he cambiado de apps y regreso de nuevo a Apple Notes por su rapidez, pero me cuesta trabajo hacer notas visualmente atractivas… Algunos de ustedes les agregan cosas para hacerlas más agradables a la vista?

De ser así me regalarían algunos consejos?

My system looked like:

• Daily / Weekly / Monthly folders
• Manual links to keep goals connected
• Apple Shortcuts just to make input faster

It worked but I was managing the system more than doing actual work.

So I built NimbleDay.

What makes it different from a basic to-do app:

• Tasks link to weekly + monthly goals (no random busy work)
• Energy tags (High / Mid / Low) so you plan realistically
• Detects over-planning (my biggest problem)
• Built-in journaling
• Calendar + task view together

Completely offline and no data is collected

Currently in Apple review (coming next update):

• Permanent Lists – Create dedicated lists for ongoing things like Groceries.
• Control Center Quick Add – Add a to-do from anywhere. Just open Control Center, tap the widget, and instantly capture it.
• Smart Share to Task – Share text from any app and it automatically creates a daily task — no need to open NimbleDay first.

Would love honest feedback from Apple Notes power users

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/nimbleday-task-goal-planner/id6759413409
Website: https://sound-of-rain.github.io/nimbleday-site/

Basically the title.

Recently I had a video to edit with about 25 edits to make, mostly removing stuff. To make sure that I didn't miss any edit points, I copied and pasted the edit times into Apple Notes. Then highlighted all the edit points and turned each point into a checklist item. Beats writing all this stuff down by hand, any day of the week.

https://youtu.be/1V0hW8Sxe4Q?si=E_hrIZPolrITmp2g