Save the contents of Apple Notes

Usage

The build creates a zip file that you can extract somewhere else and run using the included savenotes script (on Unix systems) or just java -ea -jar savenotes-<version>.jar args ....

By default, it saves all your notes to the current directory, in subdirectories based on your Notes folders. Use the -d dir option to tell it where to save.

Usage: savenotes [-f db] [-a] [-v] [-d dir] [-t pattern] [-h] [-r] [-m] [-p] [-k] [-X]

Options are:

• -f db - read a database file other than the default
• -a - save all notes (including deleted ones?)
• -v - verbose output
• -d dir - save to the specified directory instead of the current directory
• -t pattern - only save notes whose title matches the pattern regexp
• -h - save in html format
• -r - save in raw (archived object) format
• -m - save in markdown format
• -p - print to stdout instead of saving to a file
• -k - save in marked text format (mostly useful for debugging with -X)
• -X - display lots of detailed debugging output

Data format

NSAttributedString.txt describes the format of the note data, which is stored as a (non-keyed) Objective-C archived object, gzipped, in a sqlite database. The savenotes program reads the data from the database, interprets the raw note data format, and saves the contents of the notes.