Smart folders from Apple Notes now have a tab of their own, beside Folders and Tags. A smart folder is a saved search, so its notes are worked out fresh on every sync rather than read from a list. If a smart folder uses a rule this version cannot read, it says so instead of exporting the wrong notes. Notes Exporter has a new source: Documents. Point it at a folder and it turns Word, PowerPoint, Excel, OpenDocument, RTF, EPUB, CSV and PDF files into markdown. Every other source reads an Apple app. This one reads a folder you pick, so it works on files you got from anyone. Conversion happens entirely on your Mac. Nothing is uploaded, including scanned pages, which are read with Apple's own text recognition. A source can write more than one format at once. The format row is checkboxes now, so your notes can land as markdown for your vault and HTML for the web out of one sync, side by side in the same folder. Contacts groups were showing every card in an account instead of the groups you made, which made the tab useless. Groups and Companies are trees now, like folders, and each one exports into its own folder: groups/Family/ada.md. People in no group, and cards with no company, get a folder of their own rather than disappearing. Also in this release: an About page reachable from the app menu, the heart in the footer, or its own tab. And the folder you pick for exports is now the folder your files land in, rather than a subfolder inside it. Connecting Apple Notes is simpler. The panel already opens on the folder the app needs, and the wrong folder can no longer be picked by mistake. If you close the panel, the card tells you how to get back to it instead of leaving you guessing.

Every source now has tabs, not just Apple Notes. Bear adds Recent, Pinned, Archived and Files beside its tags. Messages splits People from Groups and can show only what you have not read. Contacts gains Groups and Companies. Screen Time gets a list of days for the first time, so the ten free days are ten days you chose rather than ten the app picked for you. Sort by Busiest to find the ones worth keeping. Nothing exports until you ask it to. Connecting a source and choosing a folder no longer starts a sync on its own, and real-time sync begins only after your first manual sync of that source. Notes Exporter now also speaks Czech, Ukrainian, Polish, Romanian, Vietnamese and Hungarian.

Notes Exporter now speaks German, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Turkish, Arabic and Traditional Chinese, on top of the languages it already had. It follows your Mac's language automatically, and you can pick another one from the footer or in Settings. Four new ways to find a note: Shared, Pinned, Recent and Popular sit next to Folders and Tags. Popular ranks by how often you actually open a note. Setting up is guided now: the welcome card walks you through connecting, choosing where the files go, and the first sync, one step at a time. Nothing exports until you ask it to, so your free notes stay yours to spend.

Notes Exporter now speaks Japanese, French, Simplified Chinese and Korean. It follows your Mac's language automatically, and you can pick another one from the footer or in Settings. A new welcome screen on first launch explains what the app does, what is free, and what the one-time unlock costs. Small fixes across the source cards.

- New source: Screen Time. Every day becomes a markdown file — app usage, websites, notifications, and screen sessions. macOS deletes this data after a few weeks; your export keeps every day forever. 10 days free, one-time unlock for the rest - Fixed a crash and a flickering scroll bar that appeared when macOS is set to always show scroll bars — the bar no longer steals width from the layout - The rating row no longer sits deeper than the other rows

Fixed a crash when opening a folder in the notes list. If the app quit on you while you were browsing folders, that is gone. Prices now appear in your own currency. Notes Exporter is also considerably cheaper in many countries: Apple's automatic conversion had been charging some regions more than customers in the United States pay, and that is now corrected. The notes list no longer stalls while Apple Notes is syncing in the background.

Pick your conversations: the Messages card now lists every conversation with a checkbox — untick the ones you don't want exported. New conversations stay selected by default, and skipping a conversation never costs you a free slot. Message sync is much faster: photos convert on all cores and the next conversation loads while the current one is written. The free counter now ticks live during a sync. Fixed: on some Macs the app showed 0 Apple Notes even though Notes was full — a quirk in long-lived Notes libraries. This update reads them correctly. New: notes database diagnostics in Settings shows whether the app can read your Notes library, and problem reports now include that summary automatically — so if something is wrong, one report is enough.

New source: Messages. Every conversation becomes one markdown file — a heading per day, who said what and when, reactions netted onto the message they belong to, edited messages with their earlier versions kept as footnotes, replies as real links, and the photos and videos people sent copied out next to the text (iPhone HEIC photos are converted so they actually display). Connect Contacts too and the two link up: a chat links to the person's card, and their card lists the conversations you have with them. Your 10 most recent conversations are free; all of them for a one-time $4.99. Notes Exporter now keeps a local index of everything you've connected, which is what makes a sync touch only the conversations that changed — and it lets the built-in MCP server's search find a person by name across your notes, contacts and chats at once.

New source: Contacts. Every card becomes a markdown file — name, phones, emails, addresses, birthdays, social profiles, relationships and groups as properties, the note as the body — and stays in sync as you edit in Contacts. Files land next to your notes, so Obsidian, Dataview and the built-in MCP server see people and notes together. 100 contacts free, all of them for a one-time $4.99. Also: the command line learned --source contacts, connected sources sort to the top, and the export log shows every source.

Fixed: exporting by tag now keeps your selection. Previously a full resync could silently change which tags were selected — the tags you picked are now remembered correctly across syncs. Anonymous, opt-out usage stats (Settings) help us improve the app. We count which features are used and roughly how big libraries are — never your note content, titles, or paths. Turn it off any time.

Readable in dark mode. Links, status text and every accent colour now adapt to light and dark instead of staying a light-mode blue on a dark background. Contrast is checked automatically on every build, so it can't drift back. A bigger, clearer window. Text is larger throughout, the window is wider, and you can resize it: long folder names and export paths no longer cut off mid-word. Cleaner typography. The monospaced face is now used only where it earns it: counts, dates, file paths and commands. Everything else reads in the system font. One obvious action per source. "Sync now" is a proper primary button instead of one of six identical buttons, with the quieter actions grouped beneath it. The free tier says what it means. You can see how many of your 100 free notes are used, and it now states plainly that your first 100 notes keep re-syncing free forever: only new notes beyond 100 need the one-time unlock. Release notes on the main screen. Subscribe to occasional release notes and tips from the home screen, double opt-in, unsubscribe anytime. Tidier note rows. Each note has a single link that opens it in Apple Notes; reveal in Finder and open the exported file moved to the right-click menu. Thin scrollbars. Scroll handles no longer sit on a grey track, including when macOS is set to always show scroll bars. Fixed: Notes Exporter no longer writes file paths to the system console, and no longer leaves a debug file in your Documents folder when exporting a note containing a table.

- Exports launched from cron, Carbon Copy Cloner or any root-owned automation now stay attached and return the real exit code. macOS was suspending the export when no desktop session was present, and the caller read that as the command finishing while the export was still writing - Attachment filenames no longer change between exports. When two attachments in one folder share a name, the suffix is now decided up front and stays the same every run, so backup tools stop recopying hundreds of megabytes of identical files - One run log per export, written in the folder that run actually wrote to. The duplicate copy that used to land in your configured sync folder is gone, and the export log still reads every folder the app knows about - Your export folder is now a mirror of your notes instead of a pile that only grows. Files whose note was deleted, renamed or moved away are removed, tracked by a manifest so nothing the app did not write is ever touched. The first run after updating only starts recording and deletes nothing

Handwritten notes and drawings now export properly. - Drawings, sketches, and handwritten notes are exported as images (or PDFs) next to your markdown files and embedded in the note - Apple's recognized handwriting text is included below the image, so exported notes are searchable and readable by AI tools - Scanned documents that previously exported without a file are now included - Drawings that can't be found on disk are reported in the export log instead of being silently skipped

better visibility into purchases. fixing issues with CLI.

making CLI more robust. obsidian notes exporter plugin 0.3.0 released.

This update fixes the command line tool and makes the app easier to troubleshoot. Command line • Fixed: the installed notes-exporter command showed "not connected" even when your sources were connected in the app. If you installed the command in 3.7, copy the install command from the Command Line card once more to fix it. • Running notes-exporter with no arguments now shows usage help instead of failing. • New: notes-exporter report — prints a diagnostic summary (app state, recent exports, last crash) and copies it to the clipboard. Add --send to deliver it straight to us. Menu bar mode • Fixed: the app could quit on its own after launching in menu bar mode or after clicking the menu bar icon.

- notes exporter CLI - preview - better HTML export - resizable images

NEW: Logseq support — export your Logseq graphs to Markdown, with the same real-time sync as Apple Notes and Bear. Free. NEW: background sync — turn on launch at login and menu bar mode, and your notes keep exporting with the window closed. The menu bar shows live sync status for every source. NEW: MCP server card — start/stop, one-click connect for Claude, Cursor, and VS Code, and it starts automatically with the app. FIXED: created and modified dates now appear as real date properties in Obsidian (thanks Natalie for the report!) FIXED: notes with identical titles no longer overwrite each other, attachments with matching names are kept separate, and real-time sync no longer silently stops after macOS database maintenance. FASTER: exports now run in parallel — big libraries export without freezing the app.

- Fixed internal note links: they now keep their titles and link to the correct note in both Markdown and HTML exports (previously they showed a raw ID like [[74c2f5b6-…]]). - HTML export now copies and embeds attachments (images and files) — they were missing before. - New Export Log: after each export you can see exactly how many notes succeeded or failed, any attachment issues, and a history of past runs — both inside the app and saved next to your export. - Bear exports are now logged too, alongside Apple Notes.

better support widgets.

improve mcp sever tooling. show logs.

Connect your notes to AI tools. Notes Exporter now includes a local MCP server that lets Cursor, VS Code, Claude Desktop, and Claude Code read your exported notes as context. Start the server in Settings and connect with one click. Also fixes Bear card expanding on every launch.

Add Obsidian Plugin support.

- Bear notes export (free, unlimited) - real-time sync: notes auto-export when they change - export directly into Obsidian vaults and create default Obsidian bases - all attachments included with exports - full resync option to re-export everything from scratch - completely redesigned interface

- browse individual notes inside folders and tags - folder and note icons in the tree view - open exported notes in your default editor or reveal in Finder - deeplink to any note in Apple Notes - double-click rows to select/deselect - markdown is now the default export format - compact single-row layout for export controls - taller tree view showing more folders at once - fixed note loading when expanding folders