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.
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.
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.
How to Connect Apple Notes
Step 1: Select Your Super Brain
- In Elephas, select the Super Brain where you want to add your Apple Notes content.
Step 2: Connect Apple Notes from the Knowledge Base
- Open the Knowledge Base for your Super Brain (click Knowledge Base in the chat header).
- Click Add Files or Folders.
- In the Add to Knowledge Base window, go to the Apps tab.
- Find Apple Notes in the list and click Connect.
Step 3: Select Your Apple Notes Content
- You’ll see a window showing all your Apple Notes folders.
- Choose which folders or individual notes you want to include, then click Connect Notes.
Step 4: Elephas Indexes Your Apple Notes
After you make your selections, Elephas will process your Apple Notes automatically. Your selected notes become part of your brain’s Knowledge Base.
Step 5: Chat With Your Apple Notes
Once your Apple Notes are indexed, you can chat with them through Elephas Super Chat. Ask questions, search for specific information, or find connections between different notes.
Adding Multiple Integrations
You can connect multiple integrations (Apple Notes, Notion, Obsidian, etc.) to the same Super Brain.
To add more integrations:
- Open the Knowledge Base for your Super Brain.
- Under Connected Sources, click the Integrations card to open the Integrations view.
- Click "+ Add Source" at the top of the Integrations panel.
- In the Add to Knowledge Base window, go to the Apps tab.
- Find the integration you want to add (for example, Notion, Obsidian, Roam, Logseq, DEVONthink, Zoom) and click Connect.
- Follow the connection steps for that integration.
You can repeat this to add as many integrations as you need. Each connected integration will appear in your Integrations list with its file count, and you can manage them individually.
This lets you build richer knowledge bases by combining multiple data sources in a single Super 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.
To open the notes, click “Open”
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.
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