Use Apple Notes in Claude

Steps

1. Export Apple Notes as Markdown: connect it, choose an export folder like ~/Documents/notes and press “sync now”.
2. On the MCP Server card, press “start”. The card shows localhost:8744.
3. Connect Claude Code (add --scope user to have it in every project):

claude mcp add --transport http exporter http://localhost:8744/mcp

4. Ask Claude about your notes: “Find my notes about the kitchen renovation and summarize where we landed”, or “Draft a follow-up from my meeting notes from Tuesday.”

Claude Desktop, Cursor and VS Code connect from the buttons on the same card.

What you get

• search is ranked full-text search over your notes, and each note it finds carries a link that opens it in Apple Notes
• read returns a note’s Markdown and front matter, get_recent the latest changes, list and get_stats the whole export
• the server runs inside the app: it answers while Exporter runs, window open or closed, and stops when you quit. It listens on 127.0.0.1 only, so nothing outside your Mac can reach it

Pitfalls

• The server reads Markdown only, so notes exported as HTML are invisible to it. It serves the export folders that sit next to the Apple Notes one; after a change, press “stop” and “start”.
• Claude sees what you exported: on the free allowance, your first 100 notes. What a tool returns goes to the model, like anything you paste.

The endpoint, the six tools and every client are in the MCP server docs.