Brad Costanzo shows how to connect Claude to Apple Notes via an extension, then automatically pull 36 notes from a Smart Folder, synthesize 33 ideas, and organize them into an HTML file sorted into six categories. You can schedule this to run periodically and send updates to Google Docs or other destinations.
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So a few minutes ago, I was trying something out on Claude, built something that I'm about to show you here, and I wanted to share with you exactly how I did it. I'm Brad Costanzo from Accelerated Intelligence, and we're going to go from Apple Notes to documents as well as websites. All right, so I was in my, I was in my Claude account over here, and I go to settings, and when I'm in settings, there's, let me, you know what, let me shrink this little guy down. And I go over here to extensions. So I was browsing extensions to add, allow Claude to interact with apps. And you see this read and write Apple Notes, because I keep a lot of notes inside Apple. So I just clicked on this and I installed it. Right now it's got the ability to read all my various notes. Now inside my notes folder down here, I have got a smart folder called ideas. Let me bring it over here. So over here, anytime I have an idea and throughout time, I kind of drop it in. So what I did is I installed this and then I came over to, uh, I was in Cloud Cowork and I said, access my Apple Notes extension. It says, okay, it's ready. And funny enough, Cloud Cowork started to act up on me and it started to use computer control. And I was like, well, why are you doing that? I gave you access via an extension. It said, hey, you're right. My bad. I'm sure you've seen AI do this in the past. I can see the Apple Notes MCP tools. Let me use those instead. And then I just said, in the future, tell me exactly how to activate that when talking to you. And it said, yeah, simple fix. Just say, use the Apple Notes MCP extension. For the record, the tool is available. I should have spotted it. Gotta love AI. Now over here, I just said I wanted to try this out. I said, so the task is to go into the Ideas Smart Folder, capture all of them into a document originally. And then use AI to synthesize and categorize all the ideas I've gotten into one document I can view. Now, I just said a document. I thought it was going to create a Word doc or a Markdown file. Well, it didn't. It got all 36, it pulled them in, and then it captured 33 ideas across 6 categories. And then it created this HTML folder. Now it file. Now it, it did it inside a folder that I have right here. So all I had to do is click on this and it opened up the— I gave it no style guidance at all, but here's all ideas. And all of these are extendable and these, you know, these are short little things that I did. Okay. So let's take a look at a couple of these ones that I did. Affiliate thank you page, curated app list with links. Oh, this is actually kind of cool. Cause I did this over here back on December 22nd. I said the idea here is to create a thank you page modal where it's a list of my favorite apps. Et cetera, et cetera, and I can vibe code it. And I actually ended up building this thing. And so, but that's cool. It brought it in. It didn't just bring in the exact notes from the list, but it, it synthesized it. And I can go over here, I can do this, et cetera. Now I just literally did this. I have not even really started to go through this, but what I wanted to share with you is the fact that you also can connect Claude with an MCP to Apple Notes. You can probably do this with ChatGPT as well. I just haven't tried that yet. And then tell it to access those and then ask it to ingest the notes. Now, my next thing that I'm going to try is to do this on a scheduled basis. So for instance, if I come back to this and I come down here, uh, I can go to scheduled tasks. If I do a scheduled task inside this and I say, let's just say I call this a, an idea. Ingestion. Now I wouldn't necessarily, I don't come up with ideas for Apple Notes every single day, but I'm gonna say Apple Notes idea ingestion. And I could say utilize the, utilize the, uh, Apple Notes MCP extension to, you know, synthesize and add any of these new, uh, notes into the file. Now, if I wanted to do it inside the HTML, I could do that, have it update the HTML, but I could also have it update Google Doc or, you know, or really anything else. And once more, I'm just at the very beginning of playing with this, and there's a lot of million things you can do, but I just thought I would share this right when I did it, and hopefully you like it. Thanks a lot.
