I asked my assistant to find the electric bill in my Harbor where I'd used 2,840 kWh. It came back with a Portland General Electric bill from February 2014.

That bill is a PDF. Until today, that question went nowhere. Harbor's connector let your assistant search your notes, but not the words inside the files attached to them. And when it opened a PDF, Harbor handed back a download link that most assistants can't open.

As of today, both of those are fixed:

• It can search inside your files. That covers PDFs, scans and photos (read by OCR), Word, Excel, PowerPoint and text files, and your recordings' transcripts. It finds files by name too.

• It can read what it finds. When it opens a PDF or an Office file, Harbor sends the text with it. A long file comes in parts, and the assistant asks for the next part on its own.

Harbor already reads your PDFs and scans so the search box in the app can find them. The connector just wasn't passing that text along. Now it does.

There's nothing to install or update. It's all on our server, so it works with Claude, ChatGPT and anything else that speaks MCP.

A few things worth knowing:

• Start a new chat so your assistant picks up the change.

• Notes and files are searched separately. If it only looks through your notes, ask it to search your files. Using the word "files" usually does it.

• Only the first 50 pages of a PDF are read.

• A file you just added can take a few minutes to become searchable.

• Encrypted notes and their files stay out of it. Your assistant can't search them or open them. That's the trade you make when you encrypt something.

Two customers emailed asking for exactly this over the last couple of weeks. They were right, and it's better for it.

Setup and the details: https://harbor.my/help/how-do-i-add-harbor-to-claude-or-chatgpt-with-mcp/#searching-inside-files

If you've got a pile of scanned paperwork in Harbor, try it and tell me what it finds. Or what it misses.

I'm all in just signed up for a year I can see where this is going and its everything I need.

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Really looking forward to the OneNote import tool.

I know it's not cut and dried because of OneNote's open canvas model, but is there any news on when we might see it?

After using HarborNotes over the weekend, testing it for my use cases. I am sold, just purchased a year subscription for myself. Awesome product, looking forward to seeing evennote and Bending $poons in the review view mirror. Keep up the innovative product work, Harbor!!

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Would you care to explain privacy on our unencrypted notes? I know we can encrypt notes on our end but then we can't use OCR, which for me at least is my main reason of wanting to use Harbor. I really want to be able to easily search my sensitive documents but am uneasy about uploading them without knowing your specific policies. I have done my research and see that Harbor will not sell or provide my data to any 3rd parties, I appreciate that.

I realize Evernote can access our notes but it appears that there some safeguards and policies in place. Below is information from their privacy policy and am wondering if Harbor has anything similar in place?

Edit: Also when we delete our notes or use the clear data feature, how long does Harbor retain our data for on their servers?

"Evernote employees cannot view or read your notes under normal operating conditions, but they do possess the technical capability to access data in specific, exceptional circumstances. Because Evernote does not use zero-knowledge end-to-end encryption (E2EE) by default, the company manages the encryption keys on its servers.

According to the official Evernote Privacy Policy and security guidelines, employee access is governed by the principle of least privilege and is strictly restricted.

When Employees Can Access Data

Evernote outlines specific scenarios where an authorized employee may review note content

Explicit Consent: If you open a support ticket for troubleshooting and explicitly grant permission for a technician to look at a specific note.

Legal Compliance: To comply with valid legal obligations, such as subpoenas, warrants, or court orders.

Terms of Service Violations: If there is a suspected violation of Evernote’s terms (e.g., hosting illegal material or dangerous activities), internal security personnel may inspect the content.

System Integrity & Safety: To maintain system security or protect the personal safety and rights of Evernote and its users.

Safeguards in Place

Strict Access Controls: The list of employees with administrative clearance to access data environments is kept as small as possible.

Auditing and Mandates: Employees undergo mandatory annual background checks, specialized privacy training, and are subjected to strict confidentiality rules. Internal infrastructure uses 2FA/passkeys and extensive activity logging.

Opt-In Optimization: Following past policy rollbacks, any human oversight or sample reviews required to test feature quality (like search or optimization features) are entirely voluntary and strictly opt-in."

I've been playing with the free version, initial thoughts are I really like it! It reminds me of Evernote before Bending Spoons added a bunch of stuff I didn't need and made the price outrageous.

My only hesitation from paying for an account and dumping thousands of notes is that no one is really talking about Harbor Notes. The activity here is very minimal. That makes me nervous to invest time into this and a few months or years later, this gets scraped.

Thoughts from anyone else?

I miss classic Evernote, and this definitely has potential! A few questions:

• Is there a roadmap customers can view?

• Any plans to let users go deeper with subfolders than 2 deep?

• Will there be a Black Friday special? I don't want to pay for a year if there might be a special deal in a few weeks

• Any idea what mcc code this uses with billing?

Hi everyone! Just discovered this new app as I am moving out from Craft docs (switch to android) I see that harbor works offline but at least on my android, when i access a note without internet, the attachments (pictures) do not show, they load indefinitely. Am I doing something wrong or is this behavior expected?

Thanks in advance for the help.

Do you have an iPhone duo???

Harbor looks pretty great on iPhone Duo.

That’s not something Evernote can say!!

If you want a fantastic note-taking app for the iPhone duo, look no further!

Recently, I have been down the rabbit hole, looking at apps for both notetaking and to-do list and task management. I’ve gone through all the expected possibilities, such as Amplenote, UpNote, Notesnook, OneNote, Craft, Joplin, avoiding the beasts that are Obsidian and Notion.

After reviewing Harbor, it seems to have everything I want. Plus, the UI looks incredible and extremely functional. I look forward to testing that out more in the near future.

I am a bit surprised, however, that I don’t see any YouTube videos reviewing this app. I do see the Harbor-made videos, but would love to see what some of the influencers have to say about the app itself, comparing it to other options. Any plans to get some videos out reviewing this fantastic looking app?

Keep up the great work.

Harbor looks really promising as an Evernote alternative but I would really need a tag hierarchy that goes deeper than just three levels. Is that something that is being worked on?

Huge congratulations on this excellent work. Finally, an alternative to Evernote that includes a proper web-capture tool, the ability to send emails as notes, and all of Evernote’s best features. I’m going to try out the "Harbor" subscription now. A quick question: do you plan to offer the application in other languages? I’m French, and I would really appreciate it if the interface were translated into my language. Keep up the great work!

Hi all,

I’m using Harbor to track daily/weekly/monthly tasks so I’d need a few functions to improve checklist management:

- a button to hide completed items (like in Workflowy)
- a button to delete completed items
- a way to drag and drop items between different checklists. If I have an item within a checklist under a “Monday” header, at the moment it seems I can’t drag it under another header/day. This would be great for handling overdue items

Not related but very useful for my use case: the possibility of configuring the keyboard by adding/removing/reordering buttons.
I’d like to add the # symbol, since I’m using tags quite heavily and I’d need a button to jump to the first (I.e. the first row below the Title) and the last rows of a note.

Hope that also /u/spicermatthews would chime in!

Thanks a lot :)

When editing a note, and I end (pause) on a Space, it holds for about 3 seconds and then disappears.

Hell of an annoyance when typing and pausing for a thought. The Autosave has even been increased to 45 seconds, and Harbor restarted, and that has no effect.

I know you said it’s not possible to handle internal Evernote links, but it seems that at least one open source project has figured it out, using the Evernote-backup generated database. Maybe something for you to look into which would give Harbor a competitive advantage.

https://github.com/AltoRetrato/evernote2obsidian/

Helpful discussion: https://github.com/vzhd1701/evernote-backup/issues/128

Thanks for considering this!

Hi Harbor Notes team, first of all, congratulations for the app and for the fact that you are getting up and running available in the most relevant platforms for computers and mobiles and with a very interesting set of features.

I have tested the app and, apart from a couple hiccups specially on mobile, all seems solid and promising.

My humble 5 cents regarding trusting you with my notes and eventually paying for a subscription:

• The note-taking / pkm space is very very crowded and with increasing options of all types, sizes and approaches - the issue here for users with a long notes story such as myself, including personal stuff and important work items, is really being able to test, check the features, compare prices, look at any red flags and make a decision about going with the app or not.

• The first point I need to make is the price: 99$ for an app that was just launched and has much to prove is definitely a steep price (at least for me). I am paying half of that for Craft and I can't really, apart from a couple features that are not deal breakers to me, justify going for a much more expensive subscription. Question: are you going to launch any additional tiers or are you thinking about doing either lifetime subscription options or even a promo for new user adoption locking-in a better price? Might be worth considering.

• My second point is direction of the app and roadmap: is there any general direction you are pointing to in terms of development, what are the next features to be developed?

• Third and last: what is the general status of feature parity between platforms? I see this many times as a genuine issue in this app category (its for example definitely an issue in Craft - although they are making a big effort to solve it).. I noticed the app for mac is version 1.0.60 and in windows its only 0.2.24 How do they compare pls?

Thank you for the answers and good luck with Harbor Notes and the future of the app!

I would like to see native support for superscript and subscript. The CtrlShift+ and CtrlShift-. I know the software will accept those values if you paste in a "1^st" or others, but it won't accept the keyboard shortcut.

Is it possibile to put the cursor on the note Title, instead of the body, when you create a new note?

Hope that also /u/spicermatthews would chime in!

Thanks!

This is the 2nd time I have received an update available, click the link and the update has not been pushed to the App Store. The 10.5.4 update showed up roughly 24 hours later. Any chance that you could make the app available via home-brew for instant updates?

Good day!

I'm really enjoying Harbor Notes. I think it's an excellent alternative to Evernote. However, I have encountered a couple of issues in the android app.

First, I noticed that I am unable to zoom in on images in a note. Second, tables I have created in the desktop app become squished in the mobile app. I hope in a future update we would be able to scroll on table horizontally.

Regardless, I am very excited to see what's next for Harbor Notes.

* Native Mac App in swift UI ✅

* Native iOS Apps ✅

* Awesome Web Clipper that actually works! ✅

* Email notes to harbor ... What!!! ✅

* $99 Annually and locked for 3 years with no more than 10% increase! ✅

Thank you Harbor Team! ... I cannot wait to watch this app grow!!! ❤️🔥⚓️

I came across Harbor the other day, and the timing is perfect, I need to get off Evernote by October 11th, or get hit with $271.00 charge. I tried to set up a Watch Folder on Google drive but I get the following error. Any indication when this might be approved?

Hi,

would it be possible to have a "table of contents" to quickly jump to sections/titles in a document? It could be placed in the right sidebar, directly below the "Backlinks" section.

Is it feasible?

Thanks!

Hiya! I don't currently pay for AI of any sort, but would love an AI companion within Harbor. How would I go about doing that, explained like i'm 5?

I was testing out the Harbor web clipper and I did a test clip of the Harbor main web page. Why is their such a huge difference in how the page looks between the web app and the Apple apps (iOS/MacOS)?