HACKER Q&A
📣 reacharavindh

Export Apple Notes as a Hugo Blog?


I use Apple Notes as my “Note down what ever” tool. It has a lot of useful notes that I wish I could deploy as a blog. I can’t seem to find a way to export Notes in anyway other than PDFs. Does anyone have any tips for me? It should be able to handle the images I have “paste”ed into the Notes.

I saw Montaigne.io on my Google search, but I want to avoid it because of the lock-in. I want something that I can self-host/hack on.

  👤 rcarr Accepted Answer ✓
This app will allow you to export in markdown:

https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/exporter/id1099120373?mt=12

👤 yawpitch
Consider looking at Bear, who seem to have a workaround?

https://bear.app/faq/Import%20%26%20export/Migrate%20from%20...

My personal experience with Hugo was emphatically not great, and my recent re-experience with it has been worse… the sunk cost fallacy is powerful, so while I’m sure you could do it with Hugo, I’m not going to recommend you try it.

https://yawpitchroll.com/posts/hugo-probably-is-not-for-you/

👤 oneearedrabbit
I built a similar tool you are describing. A quick demo and a technical post is here: https://notespub.com/. However, truth be told, I migrated off Notes to Emacs Org-mode recently and didn't finish the project for GA. If it helps, I do plan to release it on Github soon-ish.

If you are willing to go the extra mile, it is not that difficult to export Notes with media files from Sqlite and templatize them, and I am happy to help.

👤 shanecleveland
I've come across this recently: https://montaigne.io

Seems to be pretty actively developing it.

I have not tried it, but I also use Notes ad my go-to for jotting anything down.

👤 tikkun
If you search on HN and on Github there are a few Apple Notes exporting things people have built.
👤 slater
Maybe there's a workflow you could set up in Automator.app?