readnotes reads Apple Notes from the Notes app databases into a database allowing migration to:
- GMail Apple Notes
- Joplin
The Apple Notes app does not provide a move all action to move all Apple Notes in a folder to GMail.
gyb is used to import and export note email messages to and from GMail.
mac_apt is used to extract Apple Notes from iOS device backups.
movenotes is used to move Apple notes, emails and bookmarks to GMail or Joplin.
Currently, mac_apt does not extract public.url attachments in Apple Notes (see [ydkhatri/mac_apt#33).
There are several other attachment types in the Apple Notes BLOB format (e.g. TODOs, SVG drawings, tables, public.tiff, public.jpeg, public.png, public.url, com.adobe.pdf, etc.) that mac_apt currently does not extract.
This workaround will only extract the first public.url attachment from the note BLOB (see movenotes README for more details on what files to process for different Mac OS versions.).
python3 -B readnotes.py --user rene --input "$HOME/Library/Group Containers/group.com.apple.notes/NoteStore.sqlite" --output ~/notes_macos
After using mac_apt to extract the device backup, rename 4f98687d8ab0d6d1a371110e6b7300f6e465bef2 from iOS backup to NoteStore.sqlite (see movenotes README for more details.).
python3 -B readnotes.py --user yourusername --input "$HOME/output/NoteStore.sqlite" --output ~/notes_ios