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This plugin has not been manually reviewed by Obsidian staff. Decorate exported Apple Notes and Bear Notes with native app icons. Open notes in their source app.

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Notes Exporter

Capture in Apple Notes, think in Obsidian.

This plugin connects Notes Exporter with Obsidian. Export your Apple Notes and Bear Notes as markdown, open the folder as an Obsidian vault, and get native app integration right inside Obsidian.

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Why this exists

Apple Notes is great for quick capture -- Siri, share sheets, handwriting, instant sync. But it's a closed system. You can't query your notes, link them, or build on top of them.

Obsidian is great for thinking -- backlinks, Dataview, templates, plugins. But it can't read Apple Notes.

This plugin bridges them. Export your notes once or on a schedule, and Obsidian treats them as first-class citizens with deep links back to the source app.

How it works

  1. Export notes with Notes Exporter (select folders or tags, pick a destination folder)
  2. Open that folder as an Obsidian vault
  3. Install this plugin -- it reads source_url from frontmatter and adds native app integration

Apple Notes folders Apple Notes tags Bear tags

Features

  • native Apple Notes and Bear icons on notes:// and bear:// links in reading view, live preview, and properties panel
  • "Open in Apple Notes" / "Open in Bear" in file and editor context menus
  • native app icon button in the tab header bar
  • status bar showing source app and last modified time
  • command palette: "Open in native app"

Frontmatter fields

Notes Exporter produces rich YAML frontmatter that works with Obsidian core features and Dataview:

field example notes
title "Meeting notes" note title
id "A1B2C3..." Apple Notes identifier
aliases ["Meeting notes"] searchable via Obsidian alias
created 2025-01-15T10:30:00Z ISO 8601
modified 2025-01-15T14:22:00Z ISO 8601
source_url "notes://showNote?identifier=..." deep link to source app
tags ["work", "meetings"] Obsidian-compatible tags
reading_time 3 estimated minutes (200 wpm)
pinned true only if pinned
shared true only if shared
collaborators ["[email protected]"] shared note participants
folder_path "Work/Projects" original folder hierarchy
cover "[[path/to/image.jpg]]" cover image wikilink
word_count 642 body text word count
attachment_count 3 images, PDFs, etc
attachment_types ["image", "pdf"] types present
has_checklist true contains checklist items
checklist_done 4 completed items
checklist_total 7 total items
links ["https://example.com"] URLs found in note

Example Dataview queries:

TABLE reading_time, word_count, modified
FROM ""
WHERE source_url
SORT modified DESC

LIST
FROM #work
WHERE has_checklist AND checklist_done < checklist_total

Compared to Obsidian Importer

Obsidian Importer is a one-time migration tool. This plugin + Notes Exporter is for ongoing use:

  • re-export anytime to pick up changes (Importer is one-shot)
  • proper tag extraction from Apple Notes folders and hashtags (Importer often loses tags)
  • source_url deep links back to the original note (Importer has no source tracking)
  • attachments copied alongside notes with correct references (Importer can break attachment links)
  • rich frontmatter with word count, reading time, checklist stats, collaborators (Importer produces minimal metadata)
  • works with both Apple Notes and Bear (Importer only handles Apple Notes)

If you've already left Apple Notes and just need a one-time import, Obsidian Importer works fine. If you still capture in Apple Notes and want your notes available in Obsidian, use this.

Install

From Obsidian community plugins

Search for "Notes Exporter" in Settings > Community plugins > Browse, or visit community.obsidian.md/plugins/notes-exporter.

Manual

Copy main.js, manifest.json, and styles.css to your vault at .obsidian/plugins/notes-exporter/.

Development

npm install
npm run build       # build main.js
npm run dev         # watch mode
npm run typecheck   # type check

License

MIT

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