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Notechat

Notechat is an Electron and React desktop application for chatting with content in Apple Notes. Its documented note pipeline extracts and chunks note text, creates embeddings, and stores them for vector similarity search; the project also documents Ollama integration.

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Understand the project

Practical overview

When it fits

Consider Notechat when your source material is in Apple Notes and you want a desktop chat workflow centered on those notes, especially if you are evaluating an Ollama-based local-LLM approach.

Who it is for

  • Apple Notes users who want to ask questions about their personal note collection through chat.
  • Developers exploring a TypeScript desktop app that combines note processing, local LLM integration and vector search.

Documented uses

  • Interact with Apple Notes through a chat interface.
  • Prepare note content for retrieval by extracting it, splitting it into chunks, embedding it and saving it.
  • Develop or build the Electron and React application using its documented npm scripts.
Before you choose

Requirements & limits

The README links to a Cloud Mode download and documents a clean macOS ARM64 distribution build. It does not describe account requirements or pricing.

  • The documented content source is Apple Notes.
  • The repository describes Ollama integration and includes functions to check Ollama status and start it.
  • The database stack includes SQLite through better-sqlite3 and vector operations through sqlite-vec.
  • The project is TypeScript and MIT-licensed; its documented UI stack uses React, Vite and Electron.

Check current requirements in the official documentation. Source-based guidance does not mean OpenViST has run or independently tested this project.

Source-based practical guide

Set up Notechat and start its development environment

Install the project dependencies and launch the Electron and React development environment.

Before you start

  • A macOS environment is indicated by the documented ARM64 distribution instructions.
  • Node.js and npm are needed to run the documented npm commands.

Steps

  1. Clone or otherwise obtain the Notechat repository.

  2. From the project directory, run the command below to install dependencies.

    Documented command
    npm install

  3. Run the command below to start the React and Electron development environment with hot reloading.

    Documented command
    npm run dev

Expected outcome

The documented development environment starts with React and Electron in development mode.

Guide limitations

  • These steps describe development setup, not use of the chat interface with Apple Notes.
  • The repository only documents a clean macOS distribution build for ARM64; other platform build steps are not specified.
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13 October 2026
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