Regluke

Oh my mistake! Sorry about that.

I haven't had any issues using this Alfred workflow to search Notes on Big Sur

Hi @sballin thank you! This worked! I really appreciate it!

I have the exact same problem as @Jasondm007 And this is the only workflow I really notice when it’s no longer working. Hope it gets a fix soon. Thanks a lot.

@sballin Thank you, Thank you, Thank you! I updated the app and it's working perfectly again! This is really one of the few workflows which I depend upon every day. If there's a way for us to donate or something to support you, please let me know!

Hi @sballin This is the first time I've done this and it shows a lot of data. I copied the first part which shows the error. Does this help? [2019-01-27 20:34:03][ERROR: input.scriptfilter] JSON error: Unexpected end of file during string parse (expected low-surrogate code point but did not find one). in JSON: {"items": [{"icon": {"type": "default"}, "arg": "x-coredata://6B56A1ED-C957-4AB0-931E-71C6EA9E972C/ICNote/p23847", "subtitle": "Notes | Also I came across this other error when using the 'fn' search which usually works for me. [2019-01-27 20:38:08][ERROR: action.applescript] { NSAppleScriptErrorAppName = Notes; NSAppleScriptErrorBriefMessage = "Can\U2019t get folder id \"x-coredata://6B56A1ED-C957-4AB0-931E-71C6EA9E972C/ICFolder/p4001\"."; NSAppleScriptErrorMessage = "Notes got an error: Can\U2019t get folder id \"x-coredata://6B56A1ED-C957-4AB0-931E-71C6EA9E972C/ICFolder/p4001\"."; NSAppleScriptErrorNumber = "-1728"; NSAppleScriptErrorRange = "NSRange: {89, 25}"; } Please let me know if you need any additional information. Thanks a lot. Reg

Hi Sean, I've been a happy user of this workflow for a couple of months, thank you. But last week it mysteriously stopped searching notes and I''m not sure what's going on. I guess this is only me because I haven't heard anyone else on this thread have any issues. What's strange is the folder "fn" search works fine but not the general "n" search. Is there something I can do to get this workflow up and running again? Thanks Reg #!/usr/bin/python import sqlite3 import zlib import re import os def extractNoteBody(data): try: # Strip weird characters, title & weird header artifacts, # and replace line breaks with spaces data = zlib.decompress(data, 16+zlib.MAX_WBITS).split('\x1a\x10', 1)[0] # Reference: https://github.com/threeplanetssoftware/apple_cloud_notes_parser # Find magic hex and remove it index = data.index('\x08\x00\x10\x00\x1a') index = data.index('\x12', index) # Read from the next byte after magic index data = data[index+1:] data = unicode(data, "utf8", errors="ignore") return re.sub('^.*\n|\n', ' ', data) except Exception as e: return 'Note body could not be extracted: {}'.format(e) def readDatabase(): # Open notes database home = os.path.expanduser('~') db = home + '/Library/Group Containers/group.com.apple.notes/NoteStore.sqlite' conn = sqlite3.connect(db) c = conn.cursor() # Get uuid string required in full id c.execute('SELECT z_uuid FROM z_metadata') uuid = str(c.fetchone()[0]) # Get tuples of note title, folder code, modification date, & id# c.execute("""SELECT t1.ztitle1,t1.zfolder,t1.zmodificationdate1, t1.z_pk,t1.znotedata,t2.zdata,t2.z_pk FROM ziccloudsyncingobject AS t1 INNER JOIN zicnotedata AS t2 ON t1.znotedata = t2.z_pk WHERE t1.ztitle1 IS NOT NULL AND t1.zmarkedfordeletion IS NOT 1""") # Get data and check for d[5] because a New Note with no body can trip us up dbItems = [d for d in c.fetchall() if d[5]] dbItems = sorted(dbItems, key=lambda d: d[sortId], reverse=sortInReverse) # Get ordered lists of folder codes and folder names c.execute("""SELECT z_pk,ztitle2 FROM ziccloudsyncingobject WHERE ztitle2 IS NOT NULL AND zmarkedfordeletion IS NOT 1""") folderCodes, folderNames = zip(*c.fetchall()) conn.close() return uuid, dbItems, folderCodes, folderNames # Sort matches by title or modification date, option to search titles only. # Edit with Alfred workflow environment variable. sortId = 2 if os.getenv('sortByDate') == '1' else 0 searchTitlesOnly = (os.getenv('searchTitlesOnly') == '1') sortInReverse = (sortId == 2) if __name__ == '__main__': # Custom icons to look for in folder names icons = [u'\ud83d\udcd3', u'\ud83d\udcd5', u'\ud83d\udcd7', u'\ud83d\udcd8', u'\ud83d\udcd9'] # Read Notes database and get contents try: uuid, dbItems, folderCodes, folderNames = readDatabase() openedDatabase = True except: openedDatabase = False if openedDatabase: # Alfred results: title = note title, arg = id to pass on, subtitle = folder name, # match = note contents from gzipped database entries after stripping footers. items = [{} for d in dbItems] gotOneRealNote = False for i, d in enumerate(dbItems): try: folderName = folderNames[folderCodes.index(d[1])] if folderName == 'Recently Deleted': continue body = extractNoteBody(d[5]) subtitle = folderName + ' |' + body[:100] match = u'{} {} {}'.format(d[0], folderName, '' if searchTitlesOnly else body) # Custom icons for folder names that start with corresponding emoji if any(x in subtitle[:2] for x in icons): iconText = subtitle[:2].encode('raw_unicode_escape') subtitle = subtitle[3:] icon = {'type': 'image', 'path': 'icons/' + iconText + '.png'} else: icon = {'type': 'default'} items = {'title': d[0], 'subtitle': subtitle, 'arg': 'x-coredata://' + uuid + '/ICNote/p' + str(d[3]), 'match': match, 'icon': icon} gotOneRealNote = True except Exception as e: items = {'title': 'Error getting note', 'subtitle': str(e)} if openedDatabase and gotOneRealNote: import json print json.dumps({'items': items}) else: import subprocess print subprocess.check_output(os.path.dirname(__file__) + '/searchNoteTitles.applescript')

Hi @deanishe, I really appreciate your help, thank you! I'll try that.

Hi there, I've been using the workflow created by Sean Ballinger (https://sball.in) http://www.packal.org/workflow/search-apple-notes to search Apple notes but since a week ago it no longer works. I've tried contacting him directly but haven't heard back anything. Is there something I can do to get this workflow up and running again? Thanks Reg