The inability to export, as well as the lack of anything more than the bare basic formatting options (at least at the time a few years ago) pushed me off apple notes.

I’ve been able to export since early, early iPhone. They’re just txt files. Surprisingly, Apple notes have been the most durable as Apple has migrated them from every iPhone I’ve had for the past 15-20 years or whatever.

Basic formatting is a plus for me. Although now notes has really advanced formatting and even sketching.

Have you found a solution to mass export notes?

I built a tool for this a while back: https://github.com/dogsheep/apple-notes-to-sqlite

I just tried it and it still works:

  uvx apple-notes-to-sqlite /tmp/notes.db
  # in another terminal while that's running
  uvx datasette /tmp/notes.db

I ended up using Exporter from the App Store. I didn't work great. I have an export, but there are a lot of issues with it. I'm finding it is often easier to copy the note and use the Rich Text to Markdown action in Shortcuts, then paste into Obsidian. If I spent more time with Shortcuts there is probably a way to automate this way a bit more.

I think https://github.com/threeplanetssoftware/apple_cloud_notes_pa... might do the trick. This is "user friendly" as long as you are a programmer or work in digital forensics. :D

There are plenty of tools for exporting, and I’ve tried to leave Notes several times and had no issue getting the notes out.

But trouble free sync between machines, the ability to ‘scan’ documents, adding basic maths support, the ease… it always sucks me back in.

I wish it kept the date of creation and edits readily available, and supported markdown. But it’s damn close to what I want.

Why can’t Apple Mail do search as well as notes?

Google documentation states in multiple places that passkeys are supported in chrome Linux via google password manager. I haven't tried myself, are you saying that is incorrect?

I was wrong and I'm sorry about it. Turned out, I disabled one setting in my Google Chrome password manager, which apparently also disabled passkey creation functionality.

https://issues.chromium.org/issues/417941069 more here.

For my excuse I should note, that this passkey support is relatively recent (end of 2024) and error message was really unhelpful to understand the issue. I was trying to use passkeys on my Linux computer like every few months since they started to appear on various websites and was frustrated by lack of support in Linux.

Thanks for pushing me into right direction, so at least I can now use them.

Like what? I use it daily and haven't come across any seriously dysfunctional or incompetent.

Major:

1- Something went wrong error

2- Show Thinking never stops

3- You've been signed out error

4- UI spammed with garbled text if you attach large file

5- Prompt rejected with no error, prompt text returns to chat input but attachments are deleted

6- Pasting small amounts of text takes a few seconds in long chats

Annoying:

1- Scroll is hijacked when the prompt is accepted by server and thinking starts, instead of when you send the prompt or not at all.

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If you haven't experienced these then I can only hazard a guess that you're keeping your chats at less than 100k token context or you're using AIStudio. The major issues happen when you push it with 90k token prompts or 200k token cumulative chats. They don't all have the same precise trigger, though, some are connected to long chats, others to big attachments, etc.

A team taking the opportunity to engage directly with their users to understand their feedback so they can improve the product? So cringe.

Can you not use EXPLAIN ANALYZE to identify steps that had the highest compute time? I think most databases have some form of this.

This is a great command everyone should know. We once had a long running database query that was blocking a pipeline (code was written in a week and of course became integral to operations). Ran it, 15 minutes of thinking, added a new index on an now important column, and cut the run time down from almost 30 minutes to 5 seconds.

I've never heard of this, and I'm pretty sure my coworkers haven't either. Thanks for mentioning it!

https://chatgpt.com/share/68104c37-b578-8003-8c4e-b0a4688206...

Creating new standards is not easy, largely because everyone has to agree that they will use this particular one. Plastering it with endorsements attempts to show that there is consensus and give confidence in adoption. If they didn't put them in, you'd instead say nobody is using or going to use this.

True, but look at those "partners"; most of them are lame BigCo/consultancy types with no history of technological innovation or collaboration, in fact generally anti.

The list is aimed at bureaucratic manager types (which may be the correct approach if they are generally the decision makers), its not a list that will impress engineers too much I think.

you know how the endorsements work right? some comms intern writes a quote, emails it to someone at the other companies for the go ahead/approval, and that's how you get dozens of companies all spouting BS that kinda sounds the same.

For what reasons? I've used both and never seen such a thing. In fact I'd argue the simplicity and collaboration features of Google Docs gives it an edge.

One issue is information density of the UI, the other is that text edits are embedded as comments.

I think it is great for planning a birthday party. Less so for critical engineering documentation when lives are on the line. My experience is that sloppy imprecise tools lead to sloppy imprecise work.

More and more Apple has been adding ads into iOS. Always have another Apple credit card ad in wallet, or Apple Music ad in settings, etc.

The real point of the original comment was that outside the US iMessage is not dominant and so nobody cares about what color a chat bubble is.

I appreciate that I was a bit too confrontational in my first reply and should have just added that WeChat, Line and Telegram are also used (plus many others), not just WhatsApp.

Why I think I (over) reacted is that it was, to me, an example of only partial escape from US American insularity. They understood that ppl outside the USA don't use SMS much, but only suggested a US American messaging platform as what was used instead.

Did we read the same thing? There is nothing about color of chat bubble but there is "they all use WhatsApp". No they don't. Not all. More like half.

I'm unclear - so what does get deleted? Just unlinks your name from the genetic data?