Show HN: NotesOllama – I added local LLM support to Apple Notes (through Ollama)

• obsidian-ollama

  3 624 3.1 TypeScript

This lets you talk to local LLMs in Apple Notes. I saw Obsidian Ollama (https://github.com/hinterdupfinger/obsidian-ollama) and thought it was handy, but I'm too lazy to migrate away from the Apple ecosystem, so I quickly hacked this together. I tend to use Notes as a scratchpad for prompts, so it's nice to do some quick inference without leaving the app.

Notes doesn't really support plugins so I'm using the macOS accessibility API for reading selections and then stream responses using the clipboard (not ideal but it works).

• hammerspoon

  114 11,479 7.3 Objective-C

  Staggeringly powerful macOS desktop automation with Lua

  

Another option for hacking something like this together could be HammerSpoon. I’ve spent some time with it, but haven’t tried integrating with Apple Notes, I mostly did stuff at the file system level to keep it easy.

https://www.hammerspoon.org/

• WorkOS

  workos.com sponsored

  The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.

  

• plock

  5 420 8.7 Rust

  From anywhere you can type, query and stream the output of an LLM or any other script

I'm a big fan of this space and have been hacking on it too. With a few tricks you can use LLMs or anything else you can call from a script, via input capture and simulation, and clipboard. And it can be cross platform!

Here's the project, if it might interest anyone.

https://github.com/jasonjmcghee/plock

• MindMac

  5 10 0.6

  Issue Tracker for elegant client for MacOS

  

I highly recommend MindMac (https://mindmac.app) which adds os-wide support for Ollama (and "Open"AI et el) along with optional clipboard access and text entry.

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