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Connect Claude to Apple Notes

Yes, Claude can read your Apple Notes. Pomeroy connects Claude to Apple Notes on your Mac, so it can find a note, read it in full, and start a new one when you ask. Pomeroy never edits or deletes an existing note.

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What can you ask Claude to do in Apple Notes?

  • “Find my note about the boiler pressure.”
  • “Read me my packing list and tell me what’s missing for a week away.”
  • “What notes do I have about the kitchen?”
  • “Start a note called Garden plan with these three jobs in it.”
  • “Save this recipe as a note in my Cooking folder.”
  • “Read my meeting note from Monday and list the actions.”

What Claude can do in Apple Notes

  • List your notes by name.
  • Read one note in full, as plain text.
  • Create a new note, in a folder you name if you like.

What Pomeroy will not do in Apple Notes

  • Edit an existing note.
  • Delete a note or a folder.
  • Move notes around.

How to connect claude to apple notes

Pomeroy lists the assistants it finds on this Mac, so install Claude Desktop first if it is not there yet.

  1. 1

    Download Pomeroy and switch on Apple Notes.

    Open the download, drag Pomeroy into Applications, and open it. Pomeroy opens a setup window listing every app it can connect. macOS asks whether Pomeroy may control Notes, which is how one Mac app reads another's notes. The prompt names Pomeroy, and nothing is requested until you flip the toggle.

  2. 2

    Press Set up beside Claude Desktop.

    Pomeroy opens the Claude extension it ships with, and Claude Desktop shows its own install prompt. Approve it. Nothing is written to Claude's configuration file.

  3. 3

    Check Claude Desktop.

    In Claude Desktop, open Settings › Extensions and Pomeroy is listed. In a new chat, the tools menu under the message box shows Pomeroy's tools, one set for each app you switched on. Quit Claude Desktop and open it again.

  4. 4

    Ask Claude Desktop something.

    Try “Find my note about the boiler pressure.” and a real answer comes back.

The configuration, in full

Set up writes it for you. The documentation has the exact text, where it goes, and how to check it worked.

Can Claude read my Apple Notes?

Yes. Once you switch Notes on in Pomeroy, Claude can list your notes by name and read any one of them in full. Note bodies come back as plain text.

Can Claude change or delete a note?

No. Claude can create a new note, and that is the only writing it does. An existing note is never edited, moved, or deleted.

Is it safe to connect Claude to Apple Notes?

Pomeroy reads your notes on your Mac and sends nothing to a Pomeroy server. What Claude reads becomes part of your conversation, the same as text you paste in. Notes starts switched off, and you can switch it off again at any time. Pomeroy is an independent app, not made by Anthropic.

Claude Desktop does not show Pomeroy's tools.

Quit Claude Desktop completely and open it again; it reads its configuration when it starts. Then press Set up again in Pomeroy, under Settings › Assistants: every way Pomeroy sets an assistant up is safe to run twice. Pomeroy's menu bar shows whether Claude Desktop is connected right now.

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Try Claude with Apple Notes.

Get 50 actions every week. No Pomeroy account or payment card required. Requires macOS 15 or later.

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