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CCAPPL
User level: Level 1 (44 points)

How To Bulk Combine Many Individual Apple Notes/A folder of Notes into a Pages Document?

I need to combine about 120 individual notes into a pages document for a book. It appears I should be able to do it using Apple Shortcuts but I cannot get it to work.


I've tried:

  • Find Note (folder)
  • Combine Notes

Then I have tried each of the following options as a different attempt and none worked:

  • Create pages document
  • Save as .rtf
  • Also tried using a script to create a pages document


Nothing works but according to google, it should.

Help!

Posted on Oct 24, 2026 1:45 PM

2 replies

VikingOSX
User level: Level 10 (131,878 points)

Oct 24, 2026 3:12 PM in response to CCAPPL

Google AI did not write Notes or Pages. There is devil in the details that AI ignores… caveat emptor. I have not even bothered to deal with this issue of what you want to do. Notes is like a roach motel… as far as data is concerned. I don't think a bulk relationship will exist between Notes and Pages, regardless of what AI suggests, or your hope…


  1. Notes will let you open the currently selected Note, (singular, not multiple selected Notes) in a new Pages document by converting that Note (most likely) to RTF first. Tested with multiple Note selections and was ignored.
  2. Neither Notes nor Pages have a combine operation inherent to the application, nor in any Shortcuts action. There is a Combine Text action but that won't help you here.
  3. Notes can only export a note to PDF or Markdown. That is a disjoint operation to above items and Pages does not support Markdown or display PDF pages beyond the first page.
MrHoffman
User level: Level 10 (169,253 points)

Oct 24, 2026 3:37 PM in response to CCAPPL

I’d seriously look at migrating to and using Scrivener, including its own notes mechanism.


Scrivener is meant for books and manuals and big documents. Pages, not so much.


Yeah; it won’t solve your current problem.


As for that… There is a shortcut that may help posted here: How to merge Notes on MacBook? - Apple Community


I’ve not tried the shortcut, though. Scrivener, I’ve used.


As for Google and their AI lol machine?


Originally posted at discussions.apple.com/thread/256382307