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by canadiantim 1310 days ago
How do you get your notes out of apple notes though? They're like some sort of covetous demon who won't let your notes go once it consumes them.

I literally went to the apple notes discord once and asked them directly and their response was basically "Apple Notes isn't design to be used for more than 100 notes"... so be very very careful about choosing to use Apple Notes cause you may never get your notes out of there

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you're a legend. Thank you!
Wait… Apple is providing support via Discord now?

Anyways, if you have access to a Mac you can sync your notes via iCloud and then on Mac you can easily access the SQLite DB containing the notes. If you can figure out the schema it would be easy to write a tool to export this automatically. I’d guess someone has already built such a tool.

You can use AppleScript to copy them into other apps. Though a lack of an API is annoying.
Where exactly are my notes supposed to be going?
A local filesystem directory with text files would be a good start.
Many options, should you decide to leave the Apple ecosystem
Applescript can control Notes.