Apple Notes to Markdown

apple-notes-to-markdown.sh

#!/bin/bash
#  ___________________________________
# < Apple Notes to markdown converter >
#  -----------------------------------
#         \   ^__^
#          \  (oo)\_______
#             (__)\       )\/\
#                 ||----w |
#                 ||     ||
#
#  Requirements:
#    brew install gum jq pandoc
#
set -e

FOLDER_NAME=$(gum input --placeholder "Enter the Apple Notes folder to export")
if [ -z "$FOLDER_NAME" ]; then
    echo "No folder name provided. Exiting."
    exit 1
fi

echo "Exporting notes, wait..."
OUTPUT_DIR="$HOME/Notes"
mkdir -p "$OUTPUT_DIR"

osascript -l JavaScript - "$FOLDER_NAME" "$OUTPUT_DIR" << 'EOF'
function run(argv) {
    const Notes = Application('Notes');
    const folderName = argv[0];
    const outputDir = argv[1];
    const app = Application.currentApplication();
    app.includeStandardAdditions = true;

    const folder = Notes.folders.byName(folderName);

    folder.notes().forEach(note => {
        const title = note.name().replace(/[\/:\\]/g, '-');
        const date = note.creationDate().toISOString().slice(0, 10);
        const shortId = note.id().split('/').pop();

        const filename = `${date} ${title} (${shortId}).html`;
        const path = `${outputDir}/${filename}`;

        const file = app.openForAccess(Path(path), { writePermission: true });
        app.setEof(file, { to: 0 });
        app.write(note.body(), { to: file });
        app.closeAccess(file);

        console.log(`Exported: ${date} ${title} (${shortId})`);
    });
}
EOF

# Convert all HTML files to Markdown
for f in "$OUTPUT_DIR"/*.html; do
    pandoc -f html -t markdown -o "${f%.html}.md" "$f"
    rm "$f"
done

echo "Done! The notes from '$FOLDER_NAME' were saved to ~/Notes"
open "$OUTPUT_DIR"