Your Apple Notes,rebuilt in Notion.

Because Apple publishes no Apple Notes API. Zapier, Make and IFTTT build integrations against APIs, and there isn't one here, and that's why none of them list Apple Notes as a trigger. Shortcuts can reach your notes, but it can't run continuously in the background, notice that a note changed, convert it into Notion blocks, or carry the images. Margin does all four.

An export is a snapshot: a folder of HTML or PDF files that's out of date the moment it finishes, with your folder structure flattened and your images detached. Margin keeps the two in step continuously, rebuilds each note as native Notion blocks, and re-uploads only what actually changed.

No. The connection to Notes is read-only, so nothing Margin does can alter a note you wrote. Sync runs one way only: Apple Notes to Notion.

No. Your notes are read on your Mac and sent straight to Notion over the connection you authorised. Margin keeps a small table linking each note to the Notion page it created. That's what stops a reinstall duplicating your library, and every field of it is documented on the privacy page.

Not in the app. Nothing records which screens you open, what you click, or when you use it, and there is no advertising code in the build. (This website counts page views, cookielessly; that is described on the privacy page.) There is one optional error report, switched off until you turn it on in Permissions. When it's on, a failed sync sends the error type, how long it ran and how many notes it saw. It cannot send note content, titles or folder names, because the app only accepts a fixed list of error codes and numbers. There is no field for your words to travel in.

That's macOS's standard Automation prompt, the same one every app that talks to another app has to show, worded by Apple. Margin uses it to ask the Notes app for your notes, and it's the only permission needed to sync. The app also offers Full Disk Access, which is optional and does one thing: it lets Margin notice a new or renamed folder straight away instead of at the next scan. Nothing else is requested, and you can revoke any of it in System Settings.

Apple Notes wins. Margin only touches a page when the note behind it has changed, so your Notion edits sit untouched until you next edit that note, and then the page is rebuilt to match. Treat synced pages as a mirror, or switch off Sync updates and Margin will create pages without ever rewriting one.

Nothing, unless you ask for it. Deleting in Apple Notes leaves Notion untouched by default. Turn deletion on and the page moves to a Deleted folder rather than being destroyed, so a mistake is always recoverable.

Images sync, and each one is uploaded once then reused wherever it appears, so a photo pasted into five notes is uploaded once, not five times. PDFs and other file attachments don't sync yet. It's being built.

Just one. Pick or create a single empty page and Margin builds your entire folder structure underneath it. Everything else in your workspace stays invisible to Margin. It can't read a page you didn't hand it.

No. You connect through Notion's own OAuth screen, so there's nothing to generate or paste. The connection is stored in your Mac's Keychain, and you can revoke it from Notion at any time.

An independent developer. Every release is code-signed with an Apple Developer ID tied to a verified identity, so you always know exactly who wrote the software you're running, and when you email support you reach the person who wrote the code.

No, and right now it isn't anything: Margin is free for the whole beta, with no card and nothing to cancel. If it becomes paid later you'll be told before it happens. Either way, sync runs one way into your own Notion workspace, so everything Margin creates already sits in an account you control.

macOS 11 or later, Apple silicon. Every release is notarized by Apple, so it opens without a Gatekeeper warning and updates itself in place.