Samsung Notes
io.github.Mhemd139Published by GitHub account Mhemd139v0.1.5Updated Oct 24, 2026
Read Samsung Notes: typed text, tables, handwritten pages, photos and PDFs. Never changes a note.
Overview
Local MCP server that lets an assistant browse, search and read your Samsung Notes library, including handwriting, photos and PDFs, without changing any note.
- What you can do
- Survey the note library: sources, folders, totals and detected problems
- Browse and search notes by words, folder, date, attachments or handwriting
- Read a note's typed text, tables, attachment list and which pages hold handwriting
- Fetch a page as an image so the assistant can read handwriting
- Open attached photos and PDFs, including a PDF's text and page images
- Save copies of attachments into a folder under names the assistant chooses, only on request
- When to use it
- Useful when you keep notes in Samsung Notes and want an assistant to summarise them, search them, transcribe handwriting, or pull data out of attached invoices, receipts and PDFs. It is read-only, so it suits people who want AI access to their notes without risking edits.
- Requirements
- Runs locally over stdio via the npm package samsung-notes-mcp; Node.js 20.12 or newer is needed except in the Claude Desktop bundle. Notes come either from Samsung Notes for Windows (open once, sign in, let it sync) or from .sdocx exports placed in one folder, passed with the --exports option or set as the exported notes folder. An optional --save-dir sets where attachment copies go. No account, API key or network access is required by the connector.
Installation
In SourceWeft
- Open Samsung Notes in the dashboard and add it to a workspace.
- Enable the server for the chats that should use its tools.
Desktop only via STDIO. STDIO servers start a local process, so they need the SourceWeft desktop host.
Other MCP clients
Follow the launch instructions in the repository.
README
Samsung Notes, anywhere
Open your Samsung Notes on any device, take them with you, and let AI read them.
Free and open source. Your notes stay on your device.
Open Inkport in your browser · Connect your notes to Claude
[CI] [Release] [npm] [License: GPL-3.0]
[Inkport in a browser: a library of Samsung Notes with page previews, and a handwritten page on a phone]Inkport: your notes in any browser
Samsung Notes files (.sdocx) only open on Samsung devices. Inkport opens them on iPhone, Mac, Windows, Linux, Chromebook and Android.
- Every page, as you wrote it: handwriting, drawings, typed text, tables, photos, PDFs and voice recordings.
- Take everything with you: one ZIP with Markdown and a PDF for every note, original dates kept, ready for Obsidian, Notion or any folder.
- Send to AI in one tap: Claude, ChatGPT or Gemini gets the typed text as a text file, the handwritten pages as images, and every attached photo and PDF. Then ask it to transcribe, summarise or build a table. On a phone it opens the share menu; on a computer it saves the files to drag into the chat. One message holds at most 10 files, so big batches put the page images in one PDF.
- Private and free: it runs in your browser and sends your files nowhere. Its security policy blocks background requests to other sites. No account, no usage limits, works offline, in 21 languages.
Get your notes out of Samsung Notes: long-press a note and select the ones you want, then Share → Samsung Notes file. On Android, install Inkport from Chrome's menu and pick it in that share menu; then Send to AI passes the notes on to your AI app. Anywhere else, save the files (Google Drive, OneDrive, a USB stick, an email to yourself) and open them in Inkport.
Connect your notes to Claude
The connector lets Claude read your whole Samsung Notes library on your computer: search notes, read handwriting from page images, open invoice photos and PDFs, and save renamed copies into folders. It never changes a note.
Claude Desktop includes everything it needs; the others need Node.js 20.12 or newer.
Where your notes come from:
- Samsung Notes for Windows (it installs on any PC): nothing to set. Open it once, sign in and let your notes sync.
- Everything else (Mac, Linux): export notes from your phone as shown above, into one folder. In Claude Desktop, choose that folder as Exported notes folder in the extension's settings. Elsewhere, add
--exports "/path/to/folder"to the command. Put new exports in the same folder any time; Claude sees them on the next question.
Install with your AI agent
Paste this into Claude Code, Claude Desktop's Code tab, or any agent with a terminal. It runs one command, then you click Install twice in Claude.
Notes for agents:
- Install into Claude Desktop with the command above; don't ask the user to choose. Use the Claude Code line only if Claude Desktop isn't installed or the user asks for Claude Code.
- If
claude-desktop.exeisn't found (older Windows installs), open the file withInvoke-Iteminstead; if Windows then asks which app, the user picks Claude → Always. - The user clicks Install, then Install again; Claude Desktop asks for that on purpose. The red "not verified by Anthropic" banner is normal. Don't edit
claude_desktop_config.json, and don't restart Claude. - Samsung Notes for Windows needs no setting. Anyone else exports notes from their phone into a folder (see "Where your notes come from").
- Done when a new Claude Desktop chat answers “Give me an overview of my notes.”
Claude Desktop, step by step
- Download the
.mcpbfile above, open it, and click Install, then Install again.- Windows may ask which app opens
.mcpbfiles: choose Claude and Always. - The red "not verified by Anthropic" banner is normal for any extension outside Anthropic's directory.
- If the file doesn't open in Claude: Settings → Extensions → Advanced settings → Install Extension…, then choose it.
- Windows may ask which app opens
- Optional: Save folder in the extension's settings is where Claude saves copies of attachments when you ask. By default it's the “Samsung Notes” folder in Documents. To keep them in Google Drive, OneDrive, iCloud or Dropbox, choose a folder inside that service's synced folder.
- Start a new chat and ask: “Give me an overview of my notes.” The first time Claude uses each tool, it asks permission. Choose Always allow, and it won't ask again for that tool.
In Claude Code, claude mcp add --scope user samsung-notes -- npx -y samsung-notes-mcp also works without the plugin. Add --exports "/path/to/folder" for exported notes, or --save-dir "/path/to/folder" to save attachments somewhere other than Documents.
Try asking
- “Give me an overview of my notes.”
- “Find every invoice from this year and make a table: vendor, date, total, note.”
- “Read my handwritten notes from last week and summarise them.”
- “What's in the PDF attached to my ‘Car insurance’ note?”
- “Put all the invoices from my ‘Receipts’ folder into a folder, named by date, vendor and total.”
What Claude can do
Privacy
- Inkport runs in your browser. Your files are read on your device and never uploaded, and the page has no analytics or cookies. Its Content Security Policy blocks background requests to any other site. GitHub Pages serves the app's own files, so GitHub may log visits to the page like any website (GitHub's privacy statement).
- The connector reads your notes on your computer. There is no server, no account and no analytics, and it makes no network requests.
- Neither tool changes, moves or deletes a note. The connector writes files only when you ask it to save attachments: copies, into your Save folder, never overwriting a file.
- When Claude opens a note, page or attachment during a chat, that content is sent to Claude as part of the chat, like anything you paste, under Anthropic's privacy policy. The same goes for any AI you send notes to from Inkport.
- Every connector release bundle is built by this repository's GitHub workflow, with a provenance attestation. Check a download with
gh attestation verify samsung-notes-mcp.mcpb --repo Mhemd139/Samsung_Notes. - Questions: open an issue.
Limits
- Handwriting is read from page images, so search finds typed text and titles only.
- Inkport's PDFs are images of each page, so their text can't be selected; the Markdown file next to each PDF carries the typed text.
- Inkport builds an export in memory. On a phone, export a few hundred notes at a time.
- Locked notes stay locked. Unlock them in Samsung Notes to include them.
- Extremely long notes (over 250,000 characters) can't be read yet.
- Page images show bold text at normal weight.
- The Windows source reads Samsung Notes' own files; a Samsung Notes update could change them. If that happens,
notes_overviewsays so.
Troubleshooting
- “No Samsung Notes found”: see "Where your notes come from".
- “No notes yet” or “Folder not found”: let Samsung Notes finish syncing, or create the folder. No restart needed; Claude sees the notes on the next question.
- A note is missing: notes in the recycle bin are skipped. New notes appear on the next question — no restart needed.
- Ask Claude to run
notes_overview: it lists every problem it found. - Something else: report a problem. Please don't attach your real notes; issues are public.
How it works
Development
Translations live in web/src/locales; a native speaker's fix is the most welcome contribution there is. See CONTRIBUTING.md for the project layout and rules, CHANGELOG.md for what changed, and SECURITY.md to report a vulnerability privately.
Credits and license
- Parser: twangodev/sdocx (GPL-3.0). To inspect a file's internals, try its own viewer at sdocx.twango.dev.
- PDF engine: PDFium via @hyzyla/pdfium.
- Test notes: SDOCX Compatibility Corpus (CC BY 4.0).
- Unofficial: not affiliated with Samsung. Samsung Notes is a trademark of Samsung Electronics.
GPL-3.0-only. See LICENSE.
Source: README.md at commit 2f46be6
Tools
0Version history
2- v0.1.5LatestOct 14, 2026
- v0.1.4Oct 9, 2026
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