# Use Apple Notes in Claude

Ask Claude about your Apple Notes, served from your own Mac.

## 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):

```sh
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](https://exporter.dev/docs/mcp).

## Related

- [MCP server](https://exporter.dev/docs/mcp): Connect Claude and other agents
- [Apple Notes](https://exporter.dev/docs/notes): Folders, fields, HTML and fixes
- [Messages in Claude](https://exporter.dev/guides/messages/messages-in-claude): Ask Claude about your conversations

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human version: https://exporter.dev/guides/notes/apple-notes-in-claude
every page: https://exporter.dev/llms.txt