After a few more rounds I got to this script, which outputs them to a /tmp/notes.txt file:

```zsh

!/bin/zsh

osascript -e ' set notesFile to "/tmp/notes.txt" set fileRef to open for access notesFile with write permission tell application "Notes" repeat with eachNote in every note set noteId to the id of eachNote set noteTitle to the name of eachNote set noteBody to the body of eachNote write "------------------------" & "\n" to fileRef write noteId & "\n" to fileRef write noteTitle & "\n\n" to fileRef write noteBody & "\n" to fileRef end repeat end tell close access fileRef' Then I wrote this little Python script to load them into a database:python import sqlite_utils split = b"------------------------\n" s = open("/tmp/notes.txt", "rb").read() notes = [n.decode("mac_roman") for n in s.split(split) if n]

cleaned_notes = [{ "id": n.split("\n")[0], "title": n.split("\n")[1], "body": "\n".join(n.split("\n")[2:]).strip() } for n in notes]

db = sqlite_utils.Database("/tmp/notes.db") db["notes"].insert_all(cleaned_notes) ```