Notesbridge

io.github.IsaiahDupreePublished by GitHub account IsaiahDupreev1.3.0Updated Oct 24, 2026

Search, read, and write your Apple Notes from ChatGPT/Claude via a local Mac agent + MCP relay.

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Overview

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Connector that lets ChatGPT or Claude search, read, and write Apple Notes on your own Mac through a local agent and a hosted relay.

What you can do
  • Search notes by keyword and read a note's full content
  • List folders with note counts and list notes, optionally by folder
  • Create new notes and append text to existing notes
  • Rewrite a note's content (destructive, confirmed first)
  • Manage the Mac agent: check pairing status, view logs, uninstall auto-start
When to use it
Useful when you want an assistant to look things up in or add to your Apple Notes without copying text by hand, and you are willing to keep a Mac awake and running a small local agent.
Requirements
A NotesBridge account created on the hosted site plus a pairing code; the apple-notes-agent CLI installed via npx on a Mac with Node 18 or newer; macOS permission for Terminal to control Notes; the Mac awake with the agent running; OAuth sign-in when connecting the connector. Self-hosting needs a Vercel account and a Supabase project with SUPABASE_URL, SUPABASE_SERVICE_ROLE_KEY and JWT_SECRET set.
Before you install
Note content requested by the assistant travels through the hosted relay, and job arguments and results are temporarily stored in the relay database. Write tools can create, append to, or overwrite notes, and rewriting is destructive. Password-protected notes and attachment contents are outside the verified read scope. The agent token is kept in a local file on the Mac.

Installation

In SourceWeft

  1. Open Notesbridge in the dashboard and add it to a workspace.
  2. Connect the required credentials. They are stored privately and never shown on public pages.
  3. Enable the server for the chats that should use its tools.

Web executable via Streamable HTTP. Remote servers run from the web runtime once configured in a workspace.

Use with an agent

Paste this prompt into Claude Code, Codex, Cursor or another agent — or into SourceWeft chat. The agent reads this server's install guide, shows you its publisher, endpoint and sign-in, and adds it to your client once you agree. Keys never go into a command.

Read https://sourceweft.com/mcp/io.github.IsaiahDupree%2Fnotesbridge/install.md and connect the MCP server it describes to my client. Before changing any config, show me its publisher, endpoint and sign-in method and wait for my OK. Never put an API key in a command or in a file I would commit; ask me where it should come from.

Read the install guide the agent follows

Other MCP clients

Add this to your client's mcpServers config. The client completes OAuth sign-in on first connect.

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "notesbridge": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://notesbridge.vercel.app/mcp"
    }
  }
}

README

📝 NotesBridge

Use your Apple Notes from ChatGPT — search, read, and write, powered by your own Mac.

[License: MIT] [npm]

NotesBridge is a Model Context Protocol (MCP) connector that lets ChatGPT work with your Apple Notes. Every Notes action runs on your own Mac through a local agent. Requested note content travels through the hosted relay to ChatGPT; job arguments and results are temporarily stored in the relay database.

  ChatGPT  ──OAuth──►  NotesBridge relay  ──job queue──►  apple-notes-agent  ──►  Apple Notes.app (connector)          (Vercel, stateless)   (your Mac, polls & executes)         (on your Mac)

The agent accesses Apple Notes on your Mac. The relay stores account records and temporary job payloads/results; ChatGPT receives requested note content. Password-protected notes and attachment content are outside the verified read scope.

For users — 3 steps

1. Create your account at notesbridge.vercel.app and generate a pairing code.

2. Install the Mac agent (needs Node 18+):

bash
npx apple-notes-agent pair <YOUR-CODE>   # link this Mac to your accountnpx apple-notes-agent install            # keep it running on every restart

The first time it touches Notes, macOS asks "Terminal wants to control Notes" — click OK (one time).

3. Connect ChatGPT: Settings → Plugins → turn on Developer mode (Security & login) → Create a custom plugin → paste the MCP Server URL https://notesbridge.vercel.app/mcp → Authentication OAuth → sign in & Allow.

That's it. In a new chat: "Search my Apple Notes for the Q3 planning note" or "Create a note titled Groceries with milk, eggs, coffee."

Your Mac must be awake with the agent running. npx apple-notes-agent install makes it start automatically at login and restart if it ever crashes.

Managing the agent

bash
npx apple-notes-agent status      # is it paired & reachable?npx apple-notes-agent logs        # recent activitynpx apple-notes-agent uninstall   # stop auto-start

From this source checkout, for a private local text index (Node.js 22.13+), run node agent/cli.mjs index-install. This builds the index in batches of 25 notes and checks for changes every 15 minutes. index-status reports coverage. Search checks the current Notes metadata before using cached text, and falls back to live Notes when the index is stale. Password-protected content and attachment contents are excluded. The SQLite index stays in an owner-only directory on the Mac, outside the repository. The indexing commands are available in source; npm publication is separate.

What ChatGPT can do

ToolAction
searchSearch notes by keyword
fetch / get_noteRead a note's full content
list_foldersList folders with note counts
list_notesList notes (optionally by folder)
create_noteCreate a new note
append_to_noteAppend text to a note
update_noteRewrite a note (destructive — ChatGPT confirms first)

Self-hosting

You can run your own relay so nothing depends on the hosted instance.

Prereqs: a Vercel account and a Supabase project (free tiers are fine).

  1. Storage — in your Supabase project's SQL editor, run supabase/schema.sql. It creates a tiny Redis-shaped KV + queue surface (nb_* functions) with RLS on.
  2. Deploy the server/ directory to Vercel.
  3. Set env vars (see server/.env.example):
    • SUPABASE_URL, SUPABASE_SERVICE_ROLE_KEY — your project + service-role key
    • JWT_SECRET — openssl rand -hex 32
  4. Verify: curl https://YOUR-APP.vercel.app/api/health → redisConfigured, redisOk, jwtSecretSet all true.
  5. Point the agent at it: npx apple-notes-agent pair <CODE> --server https://YOUR-APP.vercel.app.

How it works

  • Auth — OAuth 2.1 with PKCE and Dynamic Client Registration (RFC 7591). ChatGPT registers itself, the user signs in on the NotesBridge consent page, and ChatGPT gets a scoped MCP access token. JWTs are HMAC-signed; three kinds (session, agent, mcp) with distinct privileges. Optional email verification via Resend (RESEND_API_KEY); off unless configured, and enforcement is opt-in (REQUIRE_EMAIL_VERIFICATION).
  • Relay — MCP tool call → job pushed to jobs:<user> (TTL ≤ the caller's wait window, so an abandoned job can't run late) → the Mac agent (holding a hanging long-poll) is handed the job within ~200ms, executes it, pushes the result → the MCP handler returns it. The long-poll means jobs are delivered on arrival rather than on a fixed interval, so relay overhead is ~300ms instead of ~1s. The agent is considered "online" only while it's actively connected.
  • Agent — a dependency-free Node CLI. Tools run via JXA (osascript -l JavaScript) against Notes.app; arguments are passed as JSON over argv (never shell-interpolated). A macOS LaunchAgent keeps it alive across logins and crashes.

Repository layout

server/    Vercel functions: OAuth + MCP endpoint + relay        (deploy this)agent/     apple-notes-agent — the npm-published Mac CLI          (users npx this)kit/       Browser automations: register the dev-mode connector AND           fill the OpenAI directory submission (see kit/README.md)supabase/  schema.sql for self-hosting the storagetest/      end-to-end OAuth + MCP integration test

Development

bash
# servercd server && cp .env.example .env.local   # fill in, then: vercel dev# end-to-end test against a live deployment (reads ../.env.local)node test/e2e-oauth.mjs# agent unit testsnode --test agent/test-agent-unit.mjs

Security & privacy

  • Notes are read/written only on your Mac. The relay never persists note content — job payloads live in Redis-shaped storage with a short TTL and are deleted on delivery.
  • The agent token is stored at ~/.notesbridge-agent.json (mode 600).
  • No secrets are committed; see .gitignore and the .env.example files.
  • Write tools are marked destructive so ChatGPT asks before overwriting.

License

MIT © Isaiah Dupree

Complete read coverage

list_notes and search return next_cursor. Pass it back until null; an empty search page can still have a cursor. Listings use stable note-ID order. Search reports password-protected notes as skipped. Run node test/live-all-notes.mjs for a read-only local coverage test after granting Notes automation. Current verification status is in the report.

Source: README.md at commit 8b63357

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  1. v1.3.0LatestSep 16, 2026

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