Show HN: Hot Notes – Fuzzy Search for Apple Notes (macOS)

by emaddaon 4/2/2025, 12:41 PMwith 7 comments

by raframon 4/2/2025, 2:56 PM

Why is this distributed as a modified version of the Ghostty terminal emulator bundled with the `fzy` utility? That's quite strange to me. You can run Swift that interacts with Cocoa APIs from a regular command-line utility, which lets users run it from any terminal - why not just do that?

by emaddaon 4/2/2025, 12:41 PM

Hello,

This allows you to search for and open your Apple Notes.

Matching is instant, so much faster than Spotlight or the built in Notes search.

I wrote a post about some of the technical aspects here: https://madebyenzo.com/#hot-notes

And the project page is here: https://hotmatcha.dev/hot-notes/

Thanks, Enzo