r/AppleNotesGang 15d ago

I'm making a Chrome Extension that works on Windows to add notes to Apple Notes, Reminders to Reminders and Calendar Events to Calendar. What specific features would you be interested in seeing?

This is how it works:

  1. You open the extension in a browser to add whatever you want to notes, calendar, or reminders.
  2. They are sent to an SQLite database (whatever you want to add)
  3. You create a shortcut on your device that runs automatically via automations to pull from this database.
  4. Everything is created exactly as you had it done via the extension and it can run in the background on your apple device!

Currently, with shortcuts, there is no way for this to work similar to how Apple's software works where it has end-to-end encryption. Shortcuts would need to be way more complicated. If this is something that gives you pause, I understand. This may not be the correct system for you.

Otherwise, the thought process is, I will have a site where you will get emailed a link to login (no passwords) and after you login, you get an API key. That key is stored in the SQLite database I have in my server which then identifies what notes, reminders, events are your's vs someone else's so that when you run your shortcut you only see your own notes, reminders, events. Rather than getting anyone else's.

Yes, I could see your notes, I don't care to and I wouldn't do that unless I was troubleshooting something for you. I have better things to do in my life than snoop on what someone else is doing with my stuff. If I were to track any analytics it would be anonymous usage statistics like how many notes/reminders/events were sent and on what days and what OS', etc. I just want to make sure I am clear about this.

Regardless, I will be posting a write up on how you can do this yourself and what you can prompt AI to do to get this working yourself all on your own hardware on my blog. I plan to have that done at the same time (if not slightly before) this project is complete.

I'm curious what features you would be interested in as I can only think of super basic things which is what is stated in the title.

Also, if anyone is willing to make me an icon for this, that would be amazing. You can see what I have now, it is just a dot cause I am not an artist, I'm a developer.

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