# Export your notes

Take your notes to another app, or keep a ThreadPage backup you can import back.

## Where to export

In **Settings → Import & export**, **Export to other apps** exports all your notes as Markdown or Evernote files, and **Export backup** saves everything as one ThreadPage backup.

A thread’s menu has **Export thread…** and a folder’s menu has **Export folder…**, with the same formats plus a ThreadPage backup of just that thread or folder. A thread can also be saved as a PDF.

## Which format for which app

- **Apple Notes on a Mac:** **Evernote (.enex)** File → Import to Notes.
- **Apple Notes on iPhone or iPad:** **Markdown (.md)** In Files, touch and hold the .md file, tap Share, then Apple Notes. Formatting comes across with iOS 26 or iPadOS 26 and later.
- **Bear:** **Evernote (.enex)** On a Mac: File → Import From → Evernote. On iPhone: Import in the sidebar’s … menu.
- **Craft:** **Evernote (.enex)** On the web or a Mac: Import at the bottom of the sidebar → Import from Evernote, up to 50 files at a time.
- **Evernote:** **Evernote (.enex)** In the desktop app: File → Import…
- **Google Docs:** **Markdown (.md)** File → Open → Upload, then choose a thread’s .md file.
- **Joplin:** **Evernote (.enex)** File → Import → ENEX.
- **Logseq:** **Markdown (.md)** Unzip the export, then create a new graph from its folder.
- **Notion:** **Markdown (.md)** On a computer or the web: Settings → Import, then choose the ZIP or .md file.
- **Obsidian:** **Markdown (.md)** Unzip the export. On a computer: Manage Vaults… → Open folder as vault.
- **Simplenote:** **Markdown (.md)** Unzip the export. On the web: Settings → Tools → Import Notes.
- **Standard Notes:** **Evernote (.enex)** Account menu → Import → Evernote.
- **UpNote:** **Evernote (.enex)** On a Mac: File → Import Notes → Evernote. On Windows: Settings → General → Import from Evernote.

For another app, choose **Markdown (.md)** if it imports Markdown files, or **Evernote (.enex)** if it imports Evernote files.

## Markdown

One Markdown file for each thread, in folders as in ThreadPage, with each thread’s images and files in a folder beside it. One thread without files downloads as a single .md file; everything else comes as a ZIP.

```
ThreadPage 2026-10-30/
  Work/
    Project X.md
    Project X/
      screenshot.png
  Reading list.md
```

Each file starts with the thread’s details: its title, description, status, dates and tags, and a `threadpage` key with the thread’s id. Notes follow in order, each starting with a line with its date and time, with a horizontal rule between them. A thread with a single note has neither; its date is in the details. In shared threads every date line also names who wrote the note, so a single note there starts with one too.

```
---
title: Project X
status: active
created: 2026-09-12T09:30:00+02:00
updated: 2026-10-29T18:40:00+02:00
tags:
  - design
  - q4
threadpage:
  format: 1
  thread: 2b1f6c1e-…
---
# Project X

*2026-09-12 09:30 +02:00*

First note…

---

*2026-10-29 18:40 +02:00*

Second note…
```

Checklists, tables, links, images, files and #tags are written as Markdown, and a Code block as code. Underline, text colors, fonts and sizes aren’t; a PDF keeps them. A link to a note in the same export points to its thread’s file, and any other note link points to the note in ThreadPage.

File names work on Windows, macOS and Linux: characters those systems don’t allow are left out, long titles are shortened, and the full title stays in the file.

## Evernote (.enex)

Evernote’s own format, also read by other apps that import .enex files. Each thread becomes one note with its title, dates, tags, images and files; its notes are separated by a line, each with its date.

An .enex file has no folders, so when you export folders, each gets an .enex file of its own, named after its path, and threads outside any folder go into ThreadPage.enex. Several files come together in a ZIP.

## PDF

For one thread. ThreadPage prepares the thread with its description and its notes under their days, with images, files by name and size, and note references as they show in ThreadPage, then opens the print dialog, where you choose to save it as a PDF. The PDF is named after the thread.

## ThreadPage backup

A complete copy for importing back into ThreadPage: folders, threads, notes, drafts, Archive, Trash, recovery versions and the original images and files your notes hold. Importing a backup adds a copy; it never replaces your notes.

The backup is a ZIP with a `manifest.json` and an `attachments` folder holding each original once, named by its id. The manifest names its format, `thread-page.portable-backup`, and its `schemaVersion`: 1 for a backup with images only within the older limits, which every version of ThreadPage reads, and 2 for one with other files. It also records a hash of its notes, so an import can tell the file is whole.

- Everything: `threadpage-backup-2026-10-30.zip`
- One thread: `threadpage-backup-thread-Project X-2026-10-30.zip`
- One folder: `threadpage-backup-folder-Work-2026-10-30.zip`

## What isn’t exported

Reminders, version history, sharing and connections belong to your account rather than to your notes, so no export carries them, the backup included.

Markdown and Evernote files also leave out Trash, Drafts, recovery versions, and pins and Done marks on notes; a ThreadPage backup keeps them.

[Open Import & export](https://thread.page/app/settings/data)

[Storage & backups](https://thread.page/help/storage.md)

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