{"id":26713,"date":"2026-09-02T21:22:12","date_gmt":"2026-09-02T19:22:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/?p=26713"},"modified":"2026-09-03T19:26:13","modified_gmt":"2026-09-03T17:26:13","slug":"link-to-a-note-from-desktop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/sciencesurf\/2026\/09\/link-to-a-note-from-desktop\/","title":{"rendered":"Link to a note from desktop"},"content":{"rendered":"

Apple does not want us to link from outside to a note although it makes sense to have a central notes management .<\/p>\n

There is no documented, public URL scheme for Apple Notes. Apple has never listed one in developer documentation, and there is no deep link from iCloud.com or from non-Apple platforms.<\/p>\n

But\u00a0 an undocumented mechanism exists and is reachable from outside the app. Just create a Shortcut<\/p>\n

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\r\non run {input, parameters}\r\n\tset noteURL to ""\r\n\tset cleanName to ""\r\n\t\r\n\ttell application "Notes"\r\n\t\ttry\r\n\t\t\tset selectedNotes to selection\r\n\t\t\tif (count of selectedNotes) is 0 then\r\n\t\t\t\tdisplay notification "Bitte w\u00e4hlen Sie zuerst eine Notiz in Apple Notes aus." with title "Keine Notiz ausgew\u00e4hlt"\r\n\t\t\t\treturn input\r\n\t\t\tend if\r\n\t\t\tset currentNote to item 1 of selectedNotes\r\n\t\t\tset noteID to id of currentNote\r\n\t\t\tset noteName to name of currentNote\r\n\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t-- Sonderzeichen aus dem Namen entfernen\r\n\t\t\tset cleanName to my sanitizeFilename(noteName)\r\n\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t-- ID umwandeln\r\n\t\t\tif noteID starts with "x-coredata" then\r\n\t\t\t\tset AppleScript's text item delimiters to "x-coredata:\/\/"\r\n\t\t\t\tset idPieces to text items of noteID\r\n\t\t\t\tset cleanID to item 2 of idPieces\r\n\t\t\t\tset noteURL to "applenotes:\/\/showNote?identifier=" & cleanID\r\n\t\t\telse\r\n\t\t\t\tset noteURL to noteID\r\n\t\t\tend if\r\n\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\tset the clipboard to noteURL\r\n\t\t\t\r\n\t\ton error errMsg\r\n\t\t\tdisplay alert "Fehler beim Abrufen der Notiz: " & errMsg\r\n\t\t\treturn input\r\n\t\tend try\r\n\tend tell\r\n\t\r\n\t-- Erstellt eine ausf\u00fchrbare .command Datei auf dem Schreibtisch\r\n\tif noteURL is not "" then\r\n\t\ttry\r\n\t\t\tset desktopPath to POSIX path of (path to desktop folder)\r\n\t\t\t-- Wir nutzen .command als Endung f\u00fcr ein Desktop-Skript\r\n\t\t\tset filePath to desktopPath & cleanName & ".command"\r\n\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t-- Schreibt den Start-Befehl direkt in die Datei\r\n\t\t\tset shellContent to "#!\/bin\/zsh\r\nopen " & quoted form of noteURL & "\r\nosascript -e 'tell application " & "\\"" & "Terminal" & "\\"" & " to close first window' &\r\n"\r\n\t\t\t-- Datei erstellen und ausf\u00fchrbar machen (chmod +x)\r\n\t\t\tdo shell script "echo " & quoted form of shellContent & " > " & quoted form of filePath\r\n\t\t\tdo shell script "chmod +x " & quoted form of filePath\r\n\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\tdisplay notification "Verkn\u00fcpfung '" & cleanName & "' wurde auf dem Schreibtisch erstellt!" with title "Apple Notes"\r\n\t\ton error shellMsg\r\n\t\t\tdisplay alert "Fehler beim Erstellen der Datei: " & shellMsg\r\n\t\tend try\r\n\tend if\r\n\t\r\n\treturn input\r\nend run\r\n\r\non sanitizeFilename(theText)\r\n\tset illegalChars to {":", "\/", "\\\\", "*", "?", "\\"", "<", ">", "|"}\r\n\tset cleanText to theText\r\n\trepeat with c in illegalChars\r\n\t\tset AppleScript's text item delimiters to c\r\n\t\tset thePieces to text items of cleanText\r\n\t\tset AppleScript's text item delimiters to " "\r\n\t\tset cleanText to thePieces as string\r\n\tend repeat\r\n\tif length of cleanText > 30 then\r\n\t\tset cleanText to text 1 thru 30 of cleanText\r\n\tend if\r\n\treturn cleanText\r\nend sanitizeFilename\r\n<\/pre>\n
Give it a shortcut and you are ready for your quick link<\/p>\n\n
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Apple does not want us to link from outside to a note although it makes sense to have a central notes management . There is no documented, public URL scheme for Apple Notes. Apple has never listed one in developer documentation, and there is no deep link from iCloud.com or from non-Apple platforms. But\u00a0 an … Continue reading Link to a note from desktop<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[2567,3341,3325,4950],"class_list":["post-26713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer-software","tag-apple","tag-macos","tag-link","tag-notes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26713","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26713"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26713\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26720,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26713\/revisions\/26720"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}