Integrate Apple Notes with Elephas Super Brain

Seamlessly connect Apple Notes with Elephas. Instantly search, chat, and extract insights from your personal notes using advanced AI — all while keeping your data private and secure on your Mac.

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Requires 11.2x version

Turn Your Personal Notes into a Powerful AI Assistant with Elephas

Elephas now integrates with Apple Notes on macOS, letting you instantly search, summarize, and chat with your personal notes using Elephas AI.

Your Apple Notes contain your most sensitive thoughts, business ideas, personal reflections, and confidential information. With Elephas's Apple Notes integration, you can unlock the full potential of AI-powered search and chat without compromising a single bit of your privacy.


What This Integration Does

  • Browse and select folders from your Apple Notes
  • Load and index selected notes for AI-powered search
  • Ask questions, extract highlights, or summarize note content — right from Elephas

100% Privacy with Offline Models

When you create a Brain using Elephas inbuilt offline models, your Apple Notes are processed completely offline.

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Your private Apple Notes will never leave the system. Everything is processed locally—offline and secure. 
 

For details on selecting and using Elephas Offline models, refer to this guide: Inbuilt Offline Models for 100% Privacy.

Quick Connect via Sidebar

For faster access, Apple Notes and Notion integrations are now available by default in the sidebar structure under Integrations. This means you can connect with a single click without navigating through multiple menus.

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Simply look for the Apple Notes option in your sidebar under Integrations and click to connect instantly.

 

How to Connect Apple Notes

1. Launch Elephas on Your Mac 

Start by opening the Elephas application on your Mac.

2. Find Your Target Brain for Apple Notes Integration 

Head to the brain where you want to add your Apple Notes content. Your indexed Apple Notes will be stored here.

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3. Connect Apple Notes

  • Look for Apple Notes in the sidebar under Integrations
  • Click directly to connect with one click
  • or else Go to Integrations → Apple Notes and click Connect.
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4. Pick Your Apple Notes Content 

You'll see a window showing all your Apple Notes folders. Choose which Apple Notes folders or individual Apple Notes files you want to include. Pick the Apple Notes content that matters most to you. And tap on “Connect Notes”.

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5. Elephas Handles Your Apple Notes Indexing 

After you make your choices, Elephas will process your Apple Notes automatically. Your selected Apple Notes become part of your brain's database.

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6. Chat With Your Apple Notes 

Once your Apple Notes are indexed, you can talk to them through Elephas Super Chat. Ask questions about your Apple Notes, search for specific information, or find links between different Apple Notes.

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Adding Multiple Integrations

Want to connect multiple Apple Notes folders or other integrations to the same brain? No problem!

After your initial connection, you can easily add more integrations by clicking the "Add Integration" button. This allows you to:

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  • Connect multiple Apple Notes folders to the same brain
  • Create comprehensive knowledge bases from multiple sources

This flexibility lets you build richer, more comprehensive AI assistants by combining different data sources in a single brain.

Need to add more integrations? See our Adding Multiple Integrations to Your Elephas Brain

References

With each response, Elephas includes the references it has used to answer your question. You can click the references, to open the right sidebar. The right sidebar will list the actual excerpts. The links under each response will open the respective Apple Notes note directly.

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To open the notes, tap on

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After Importing

You can now:

  • Search your notes semantically with natural language
  • Ask Elephas questions like:
    • “What did I write about automation ?”
    • “Summarize all notes tagged ‘BeeMind’”
  • Organize notes into different Super Brains for better context separation
  • Keep Your Notes Updated: Enable Auto-Sync to automatically index new and updated notes every 4 hours.

Stuck? We've Got You Covered!

Confused? We're here to help! Email us at support@elephas.app.

 
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