MechaCat02 f545b7cf54 Export Apple Notes to stdout, and one folder at a time ...

`console.log` in JXA writes to standard error, not standard output, so
`> notes.ndjson` produced an empty file while every note scrolled past
on the terminal. Both streams now go through NSFileHandle, which is the
only way to be sure which one you are on; the comment says so, because
the next person will reach for console.log too.

`--folder` was a substring match applied after each note's body had
already been read. It now matches a whole path segment — `Schule` takes
Schule and everything under it and leaves Musikschule alone — and is
checked before the body, which is the one expensive property and is what
makes a large library take minutes.

The path is recorded relative to the folder asked for, because the
import reads its last segment as the subject: `Schule/Deutsch` has to
arrive as `Deutsch`, and a note loose in `Schule` has to arrive with no
subject at all rather than one called "Schule".

Not run: this needs a Mac with Notes, and there is none here. The JXA
stream behaviour is the documented one and the folder logic is plain
string work, but the script itself is still unexercised.

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