Apple Notes MCP server

This is a small helper that connects your AI assistant to the Apple Notes app on your Mac. Once it is set up, you can ask your AI to find a note, read one, or write a new one, and it will do it in your real Notes app. It is handy if you keep your lists, meeting notes, and ideas in Apple Notes and want your AI to work with them directly.

What this MCP server does

You ask your AI something about your notes, like listing what is in a folder or searching for a word. The AI passes your request to this helper program running quietly on your Mac. The helper reads your Notes database to find or search notes, and it uses Apple's own scripting to read, create, update, or delete them. When you create a note, it writes your text as a properly formatted note with real headings, bold, and lists, not plain text. Then the AI shows you the result right in the chat.

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What you can do with it

• List all your notes, or just the ones in a certain folder
• Search your notes by keyword
• Read a full note and show it to you as clean text
• Create a new note with headings, bold, and lists that look right in Apple Notes
• Update an existing note by replacing its content
• Delete a note (it goes to Recently Deleted, same as doing it by hand)

Try asking your AI

• “List all my notes in the Projects folder”
• “Search my notes for meeting agenda”
• “Read my Shopping List note”
• “Create a note in Work with today's action items”
• “Update my Shopping List with these new items”

What it gives back to you

You get answers in plain chat: a list of note titles, a search result, or the full text of a note. When you create or update a note, the AI tells you it is done, and you can open Apple Notes to see the new or changed note. Deleting moves the note to Recently Deleted, and the AI confirms that too.

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Who it's for

People who keep their personal notes, lists, and ideas in Apple Notes on a Mac and want their AI to read and write them without copying and pasting.