Show HN: Stash – Sync Markdown Files with Apple Notes via CLI
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#2I've used Apple Notes for years because it syncs fast and stays out of the way. But when I'm writing in the terminal, there's always been friction getting Markdown into Apple Notes.
Existing tools were either bloated or read-only. So I built Stash: push a Markdown file to Apple Notes, pull changes back. It uses YAML frontmatter to track which note belongs to which file.
Built with Bash, AppleScript, and Pandoc. No databases, no daemons, no config files. Install via Homebrew. Happy to take suggestions and answer questions about the quirks I ran into along the way.
Re: Show HN: Stash – Sync Markdown Files with Apple Notes via CLI
#3I will have to try this.
Question: is there a way to make this automatic on state changes? I had an issue recently where a child accidentally overwrote my huge Apple notes and I couldn’t undo the change, or restore my history
I lost a lot of work
Re: Show HN: Stash – Sync Markdown Files with Apple Notes via CLI
#4I think the name is not unique enough
Re: Show HN: Stash – Sync Markdown Files with Apple Notes via CLI
#5I've used Apple Notes for years because it syncs fast and stays out of the way. But when I'm writing in the terminal, there's always been friction getting Markdown into Apple Notes. Existing tools were either bloated or read-only. So I built Stash: push a Markdown file to Apple Notes, pull changes back. It uses YAML frontmatter to track which note belongs to which file. Built with Bash, AppleScript, and Pandoc. No da…
How hard would it be to extend this to support bulk export of Apple Notes?
Re: Show HN: Stash – Sync Markdown Files with Apple Notes via CLI
#6I think the name is not unique enough
Yeah there's a popular self hosted media server designed for... other purposes
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#7on my iphone the readme ascii art title gets truncated to just "STASI" :-)
been looking for something like this! will definitely check it out.
Re: Show HN: Stash – Sync Markdown Files with Apple Notes via CLI
#8This is awesome! I’ve been looking for a way to batch export my notes out of Apple notes, will this work for that purpose?
I totally agree with you that most notes apps miss the mark. I’m working on one now which I hope satisfies the same requirements as Apple notes(dead simple, iCloud sync, free) but has some things I want (improved search, first class markdown support).
I’ve been using it as my daily driver for a while, but it’s not quite ready for other users yet. I wrote a bit about it in my year in review[1] under the section “Not Another Notes App!”.
Re: Show HN: Stash – Sync Markdown Files with Apple Notes via CLI
#9Awesome will try this for sure!
Re: Show HN: Stash – Sync Markdown Files with Apple Notes via CLI
#10I've used Apple Notes for years because it syncs fast and stays out of the way. But when I'm writing in the terminal, there's always been friction getting Markdown into Apple Notes. Existing tools were either bloated or read-only. So I built Stash: push a Markdown file to Apple Notes, pull changes back. It uses YAML frontmatter to track which note belongs to which file. Built with Bash, AppleScript, and Pandoc. No da…
I love Apple Notes, but I also love writing in vim; looks like I can finally reconcile those two things thanks to your project. Nice work!
> questions about the quirks
I've used a decent amount of AppleScript to automate things on my Mac, so I know it's a powerful tool but not easy to just jump into, even when you're already familiar with that bizarre syntax. What kinds of quirks did you run into?