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.

Very nice!

Just FYI, one can also save RTF doc in cryptpad as html.

Would love an iOS (or even Windows, if possible) version.

i'm curious, how does it work? does it read the db directly or use applescript to get the notes?

Makes me think what would have happened if CityDesk from Fog Creek Software in 2001 modernized into today.

https://web.archive.org/web/20020802014713/http://www.fogcre...

Very cool how you have both a one click purchase and a subscription :) I use apple notes a lot but never thought of making it into a website. Is this homepage a notes app site?

Didn't work for me. At first I thought the app did not open but it turned out to add a few buttons to the lower right corner of Apple Notes.

When clicking the buttons, nothing happened, not even the 'copy markdown' button worked. I'm running 15.5 (24F74).

Not the title, why the edit? title: Alto h1: Welcome to Alto

Is a screenshot of the product not possible? Like wtf, show what the final result looks like

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?

I was crawling through the links and J ran into https://montaigne.io/ which also aay:

> Make a website, blog, or portfolio using nothing but Apple Notes.

A bit confusing.

The 'no more tools to learn' promise is powerful, but here's my hang-up: isn't this... just another tool? A layer between my notes and the web, with its own app and pricing. Feels like we're just trading one set of complexities for another. Is this true simplicity, or just a different kind of abstraction? Maybe I'm just being cynical lol.

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.

For example: https://bloggrify.com/

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.

Possibly worth noting that import export markdown is coming to Apple notes in ios26

https://9to5mac.com/2025/07/17/heres-everything-new-for-appl...

Reminds me of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posterous