This did the job! Next step is to turn that into a Python script.

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) ```

Me:

Write applescript to loop through all of my Apple Notes and output their contents

ChatGPT:

applescript tell application "Notes" repeat with eachNote in every note set noteTitle to the name of eachNote set noteBody to the body of eachNote display dialog noteTitle & return & return & noteBody end repeat end tell Me:

How can I turn that into a zsh script which will output the results to my terminal

ChatGPT: ```zsh

!/usr/bin/zsh

osascript -e 'tell application "Notes" repeat with eachNote in every note set noteTitle to the name of eachNote set noteBody to the body of eachNote set output to noteTitle & "\n" & noteBody & "\n" display dialog output log output end repeat end tell' `` I had to change that first line to#!/bin/zsh` - then when I ran it it spammed my screen with dialog boxes.

Me:

I want to log the notes contents to the terminal, not display it in a dialog

ChatGPT:

```zsh

!/bin/zsh

osascript -e 'tell application "Notes" repeat with eachNote in every note set noteTitle to the name of eachNote set noteBody to the body of eachNote set output to noteTitle & "\n" & noteBody & "\n" log output end repeat end tell' ``` This really helps!