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What is the best way to back up my notes?

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Export "Encrypted full backup (.pnbackupz)" under Settings > Import & Export > Export. It encrypts everything - notes, journals, vault items, tasks, images, audio, and files - with your phrase key, so it is safe to park on a cloud drive or a USB stick, and it restores with your phrase on any device.

It opens with the phrase that made it, so keep a "PrivacyNotes backup (.zip)" alongside it if you ever move to a new phrase: same contents, restores into any vault, and readable on disk, so store it somewhere you trust. "Encrypted backup (.pnbackup)" covers text and metadata rather than images and files, and "Text backup (.json)" and the HTML archive are portability formats rather than restore formats.

Why keep local backups when everything syncs? Sync is not a backup: it faithfully propagates deletions, including a compromised server dropping data that your devices then mirror. A copy on your own disk is the one no server event can touch. Export before big imports, before leaving, and on a rhythm you will keep.

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Answers and step-by-step guides: security, sync, pricing, and switching from other apps.

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Where is my data stored? Where on my disk does the app store my notes? Can I export my notes, or am I locked in? Can I print a note or save it as a PDF? How do I restore a backup?

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Answer my questions about PrivacyNotes using only its help center, its changelog and its security documentation.

Start here: https://privacynotes.app/llms-index.txt
It lists every question with the page that answers it. Fetch the one or two that match mine.
If you can only make one request, fetch https://privacynotes.app/llms-full.txt instead.
If you cannot fetch a .txt or .md file, read https://privacynotes.app/help, https://privacynotes.app/changelog and https://github.com/LifetimeLabsDev/PrivacyNotes.app instead.

For what changed, or where something moved, fetch https://privacynotes.app/changelog.md.

For how the encryption works, what the server can read, or how to check any of it yourself, fetch https://privacynotes.app/docs/index.md and follow it to one of the documents it lists. That index is a router: cite the document, never the index.

Rules:
- Use only those pages. If they do not answer something, say so instead of guessing.
- Never invent a feature, a menu path, a price, or a limit.
- End your reply with the "Source:" URL from the page you used, exactly as written.
- Answer in the same language as my question.
- Never ask me for my recovery phrase, my PIN, or the contents of a note.

If no question follows, ask me what I would like to know.

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Never paste your recovery phrase, your PIN, or a note into an AI.