Be careful keeping important things in Apple Notes and not backing it up elsewhere. One time I disabled the iCloud sync on Apple Note from my Mac. All of my notes disappeared everywhere. The notes were previously available across all my devices logged into that account as well as the web UI - all gone and unrecoverable (I did a lot of research and tried everything). And no warning in the UI that disabling the iCloud sync would delete any data.
Dumb mistake I won’t make again.
I’ve heard many times over the years not to trust “the cloud” and don’t consider it to be a valid backup solution. This is the first time I’ve ever actually been bitten by it.
With photos, Apple actually threatens you that they will delete everything including your local copies when you disable the icloud syncing that you never explicitly enabled...
So, alto.so is a platform for publishing Apple Notes on the alto.so website? This was a bit confusing to understand because the “Install Mac app” link points to an app called alto.computer.
The “Guides” link in the docs page leads me to an empty page (turned off ad blocker and checked, but no luck).
The app is free and the one time price request seems reasonable. But adding a custom domain is a comparatively more expensive subscription (or a much higher one time fee).
Are there apps that allow publishing from Apple Notes to a website with one’s own domain without additional subscription fees?
For anyone that doesn't use Apple Notes, and keeps their notes in Markdown or Org format, good news for you, there are tons of existing tools to do the same thing (converting your notes into webpages) and you don't have to pay for them.
Is there a good reason for one's Apple Notes to be turned into a "website"? (NB: there's something more meant here than notes-as-a-website, since that implies little more than than "your notes, but with URLs". "Website" is being used here as a euphemism for something else—something more than that alone.) Is that better than your website being a collection of notes?
It seems that the note is the preferred form of interaction, following straightforwardly from the concept of revealed preference—else those in the target audience wouldn't actually be choosing the notes every day, when they could be choosing not-notes.
So that's the value proposition here: taking the thing that its users like more and exchanging it for something that they like less.
Again I gesture towards what we know as revealed preference. People like the idea of blogging. In practice, they don't like actually blogging. This is why we have:
I think that it is kinda cool to convert your notes to a website, especially if you want to easily share them. I just created a Shortcut that sends my modified notes to an email address, and then I use Eleventy to build a website. Here is the result: https://albertoprado70.github.io/Mini/this-blog-uses-ios-not...
Whenever I export notes from Apple Notes it replaces the Markdown title marker `# Title goes here` with `*Title goes here *****` or something similar. Any notes on this?
Notes is a writing tool that approachable and easy to use. It also works across the ecosystem on a syncing platform I already pay for and whose privacy I am comfortable with. I like the idea of setting up a simple text based website without needing to adopt a new editor. That's plenty value prop to me.
I need to share a doc with family that is basically the agenda for our reunion.
There is no service (Google, iCloud) that we all have access to, and I do not want the doc I share to be full of prompts for the people I share it with to join any service (this disqualifies Dropbox paper).
I need to be able to update this doc on my phone.
I have this need a couple times a yeat, so this app appeals to me (haven't tried it yet!)
I suppose the use case for using Notes to back a website is the same reason you'd use Notes over Notion, Obsidian, Todo apps, Evernote, and everything else:
Notes are built-in to your Macbook and iPhone, and they sync across them, and you're probably already using it.
Every time I try to use a new tool, I end up going back to Notes.
I noticed a trend with gen z at least that they use Apple Messages and Apple Notes for everything. Even scheduling and stuff, I had a shared note sent to me. So probably a replacement for Notion.
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Dumb mistake I won’t make again.
I’ve heard many times over the years not to trust “the cloud” and don’t consider it to be a valid backup solution. This is the first time I’ve ever actually been bitten by it.
https://9to5mac.com/2025/07/17/heres-everything-new-for-appl...
The “Guides” link in the docs page leads me to an empty page (turned off ad blocker and checked, but no luck).
The app is free and the one time price request seems reasonable. But adding a custom domain is a comparatively more expensive subscription (or a much higher one time fee).
Are there apps that allow publishing from Apple Notes to a website with one’s own domain without additional subscription fees?
For example: https://bloggrify.com/
https://web.archive.org/web/20020802014713/http://www.fogcre...
It seems that the note is the preferred form of interaction, following straightforwardly from the concept of revealed preference—else those in the target audience wouldn't actually be choosing the notes every day, when they could be choosing not-notes.
So that's the value proposition here: taking the thing that its users like more and exchanging it for something that they like less.
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There is no service (Google, iCloud) that we all have access to, and I do not want the doc I share to be full of prompts for the people I share it with to join any service (this disqualifies Dropbox paper).
I need to be able to update this doc on my phone.
I have this need a couple times a yeat, so this app appeals to me (haven't tried it yet!)
Notes are built-in to your Macbook and iPhone, and they sync across them, and you're probably already using it.
Every time I try to use a new tool, I end up going back to Notes.
When clicking the buttons, nothing happened, not even the 'copy markdown' button worked. I'm running 15.5 (24F74).
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