Using F✱N and Apple Notes with AI

thomas_h

Lately, I’ve been receiving more and more videos on how to connect your ‘Second Brain’ to AI agents.
What’s missing is how to set up a connection to Apple Notes.
Has anyone looked into this yet?
Here are two German videos on the topic, by way of example.

BrandonReed

@Matthias thomas_h do you use Claude Code or Codex at all?

I have a second brain i call "Cortex" which is simply put…Obsidian vault (✱ CORTEX) connected to Claude Code.

It now connects to Apple Notes. I was able to have it analyze my entire Forever ✱ Notes system and help me fix a couple of my shortcuts autonomously without my direct involvement! Sooo Cool!

Before today I was doing the following: Use the exporter tool for all my apple notes exported as md files. then imported to another obsidian vault so my second brain can use them and read them easily. I was doing this once per quarter…super fast and easy to do…but wishing ✱ CORTEX could do it directly with Apple Notes…Now it looks like Apple Notes is readable via claude code! Im super excited!!

Thought I would share that with you!

thomas_h

That’s an interesting idea about the export.
I’m curious to see whether a native integration might be possible soon.

composer

I got Code to write me a better map into Apple Notes a while ago, as it wasn't able to see basic things like links, attachments, tables, etc. (I'm definitely no programmer).
Apple Notes in its current state is problematic to append to, although there a shortcut for that. Why? Because (to quote) "Note bodies live in ZICNOTEDATA as gzipped protobuf CRDT blobs." Wow, thanks Code.

However, with OS27, Apple Notes will be able to import/export Markdown. I asked Code if this might help. The answer is very likely yes, because the Markdown translation is also available in Apple Shortcuts. I'm kind of hopeful of being able to build a proper MCP in the near future.