Export/Backup Notes

[shompoe]

Some people end up with a large quantity of notes and before deciding to adopt any particular platform they'll want to make sure they're never going to get locked in to that platform if future development should go in a direction that isn't to their preference. Some people are also concerned about the platform disapearing for whatever reason and then loosing access permanently.

Therefore it should be possible to export all notes in one click, into a format that could then conceivably be modified so that it could then be migrated to another platform. Or just imported to a self hosted Etesync server.

[andreas1107]

Also to add to this: please create an export to text-file/markdown and possible HTML. Not only a JSON or other database format export!

[tasn]

Evernote exports as an "Evernote XML" .enex, which does seem to be pretty common in other note programs. I have my notes in Joplin now though and they will also export as .jex (Joplin Export) file or as "raw" files (in addition to .enex). Here's the description from Joplin's website:

"Joplin can export to the JEX format (Joplin Export file), which is a tar file that can contain multiple notes, notebooks, etc. This is a lossless format in that all the notes, but also metadata such as geo-location, updated time, tags, etc. are preserved. This format is convenient for backup purposes and can be re-imported into Joplin. A "raw" format is also available. This is the same as the JEX format except that the data is saved to a directory and each item represented by a single file."

I do know Joplin's notes are stored as Markdown and Evernote uses HTML, I think (for text notes).

More info from reddit about importing data from other programs.