notes-recover
your Apple Notes never really die
What You Get • Install • How It Work • Ecosystem
notes-recover is a forensic-grade reader for Apple Notes. Recover deleted notes, browse the raw NoteStore, and ship audit-ready bundles. Nothing leaves your machine.
🤝 Sister repo: want a prevention-side workflow that schedules backups before notes go missing? See notebackup — the Apple Notes backup control room (path-aware exports,
launchdscheduling, health checks).notebackupcovers the before;notes-recovercovers the after. Together they cover the full Apple Notes lifecycle on macOS.
┌──────────────────────────────────────┐
│ LOCAL-FIRST ████████ 100% │
│ SOURCE-TRACEABLE ████████ 100% │
│ TYPING REQUIRED ░░░░░░░░ 0% │
│ VIBES ████████ ZERO │
│ FILLER│
└──────────────────────────────────────┘
Recover, browse, prove. NoteStore is just SQLite if you know where to look.
What You Get
| Surface | What |
|---|---|
notes-recovery cli | Walk NoteStore.sqlite. Recover trashed and orphan notes. |
case review skill | Bounded Q&A over a single case root, no hallucinations. |
agent plugins | Drop-in for Claude, Codex, OpenClaw — case in, summary out. |
proof bundle | Every claim ships with the path, hash, and snippet. |
[!IMPORTANT] Local-first by default. No silent telemetry. No cloud round-trip. Your data stays on your machine until you explicitly ship it somewhere.
Install
git clone https://github.com/xiaojiou176-open/notes-recover.git
cd notes-recover
# follow the per-stack quickstart in INSTALL.md or docs/
Three commands. No curl | sh. No login. Read what you run.
Install break? Open your favorite agent and say "Read AGENTS.md and bootstrap notes-recover for me." Agent fix own brain. Long version: docs/.
How It Work
The repo is seven layers — exactly the seven commits in git log. New work goes in as small named PRs. No 50-file mystery commits.
| Layer | What |
|---|---|
chore: scaffold | License, governance, hygiene gates, CI scaffolding. |
feat(core) | The primary engine. The reason notes-recover exists. |
feat(modules) | Packages, adapters, services, plugins. The second floor. |
feat(contracts) | Schemas, configs, public boundaries. Other code talks here. |
test: | Receipts. Everything in this layer must run. |
feat(ops) | Scripts, infra, CI helpers, build glue. |
docs: | Public docs surface. The pretty face. |
git log reads like a building floor plan. Look once, know the whole shape.
Ecosystem
notes-recover lives in the yard family: seven yards. one philosophy: structured input, structured output, structured proof.
| Repo | What |
|---|---|
| switchyard | model & agent runtime switch board |
| browserclickyard | your AI clicks, your browser obeys |
| notes-recover (you here) | your Apple Notes never really die |
| dealyard | let prices fight, you sit and watch |
| docyard | docs site in, markdown out, no scraping by hand |
| fileyard | messy folders in, organized library out |
| proofyard | every claim ships with its receipt |
Cross-family taste: BeamMe · BrewMe · OpenVibeCoding · proofyard.
Star This Repo
If notes-recover saves you a click, an hour, or a headache — star costs zero. Fair trade. ⭐
Also by Yifeng[Terry] Yu
- switchyard — model & agent runtime switch board
- browserclickyard — your AI clicks, your browser obeys
- BeamMe — beam your agent config to any planet
- BrewMe — wake up, news already brewed
- OpenVibeCoding — AI codes overnight, you ship in the morning
License
MIT — small print, big freedom.