Name: Apple Notes Store
Author: utilizing

Question 1

What is Apple Notes Store and how does it work with LLMs?

Accepted Answer

Apple Notes Store is an MCP (Model Context Protocol) server designed to integrate your Apple Notes with Large Language Models. It allows LLMs to perform advanced, full-text searches and reasoning across all your notes, including the rich content embedded within PDF extractions and image attachments, which traditional AppleScript methods cannot access.

Question 2

How does Apple Notes Store improve search capabilities beyond standard Apple Notes?

Accepted Answer

It significantly enhances search by utilizing FTS5 full-text search with Porter stemming across diverse content, including note titles, body snippets, extracted PDF text, image metadata, attachment filenames, summaries, OCR text (from summaries), and URLs. This enables comprehensive and context-aware searches, such as finding a note about 'blood test' even if the term is only in an attached PDF filename.

Question 3

What types of attachments can LLMs analyze using this tool?

Accepted Answer

LLMs can analyze extracted text content from PDF attachments using `pdfplumber` and base64-encoded image attachments (with HEIC converted to JPEG via `sips`) for multimodal analysis. This allows LLMs to understand and reason over content like receipts, lab results, contracts, or any visual information you've saved in your notes.

Question 4

Is Apple Notes Store a read-only tool, or can it modify my notes?

Accepted Answer

The Apple Notes Store is strictly read-only. It never writes to your NoteStore database, media files, or notes. All operations, including AppleScript calls and SQLite queries, are designed for data retrieval only, ensuring the complete safety and integrity of your Apple Notes data.

Question 5

What are the key requirements to use Apple Notes Store?

Accepted Answer

To run the Apple Notes Store server, you need macOS 12+ (Monterey or later) and Python 3.10+. Additionally, you must grant Full Disk Access to your terminal application (e.g., Terminal, iTerm, Claude Desktop) and allow automation permission for Notes.app, as it accesses protected system directories and communicates with the Notes application.

Apple Notes Store

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