Dev uses Claude to mine 1,270 Apple Notes from 10 years into a private archive of recurring ideas
inexistences · reddit · 2026-10-18
A Redditor spent weeks of Claude credits having the model read 1,270 Apple Notes spanning 2016–now (letters, journals, dream logs) to surface the ideas and themes that keep recurring.
- Stack: Fable 5.1 wrote the build plan, Opus 5.5 executed it, producing a private archive site plus a model of the author's writing voice to test against; the walkthrough video was also made with Opus.
- Privacy trade-off: Claude read everything by design, but all output stays local — nothing published or hosted.
- Iterability: an input pipeline keeps ingesting new notes, and a query tool minimizes token costs for follow-up questions.
- The author says some outputs gave them chills and offers to share build notes.
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