TaskNote Bridge

TaskNote Bridge is a production‑ready, native macOS application that turns your local Things 3 and Apple Notes ecosystems into fully programmable data sources for any Model Context Protocol (MCP) client. By exposing a rich set of tools over the MCP interface, it removes the friction between AI assistants and your task‑management workflow. Developers can now create, read, update, and delete tasks or notes directly from Claude, VS Code, or any other MCP‑compliant assistant without leaving the editor or terminal.

The server implements every MCP requirement in Swift, including a built‑in GUI that monitors connections, logs, and tool usage in real time. The dashboard shows active client sessions, request counts, latency statistics, and a live feed of server logs that can be filtered by keyword or severity. This visibility is invaluable for debugging complex interactions and ensuring that AI‑generated commands are executed as intended. Because the server runs locally, latency is minimal and privacy concerns are mitigated—no data leaves your machine unless you explicitly share it.

TaskNote Bridge’s core features revolve around seamless integration with Things 3 and Apple Notes. For Things, it exposes tools that list all major task lists, manage projects and areas, apply tags, perform advanced searches, and open items directly in the native app. Notes tools allow creation of new notes with titles, body text, and tags; searching by title; retrieving full content; listing all existing notes; and opening them in Apple Notes. Each tool follows MCP’s JSON‑RPC style, making it trivial for developers to invoke them from any language that can send HTTP or TCP requests.

Real‑world scenarios are abundant. A product manager could ask an AI assistant to generate a sprint backlog and have each item automatically added as a task in Things, complete with due dates and tags. A researcher might draft an article outline in VS Code, then instruct the assistant to create a note for each section in Apple Notes, preserving formatting and metadata. Because MCP supports prompts and sampling, developers can also build conversational agents that maintain context while interacting with these tools, enabling sophisticated automation such as “add a follow‑up task for any note that contains the keyword ‘budget’.”

What sets TaskNote Bridge apart is its combination of a polished GUI, full TCP transport support for any MCP client, and comprehensive coverage of both Things 3 and Apple Notes. The server is production‑ready, runs on macOS 12+, and requires only the native apps—no external services or complex networking setups. For developers building AI‑augmented workflows, this bridge provides a reliable, secure, and developer‑friendly entry point to the most popular macOS productivity tools.