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Help & FAQ/Import guides

Export your Joplin notes

Joplin exports every notebook at once as one JEX file. It brings your notes across with their notebooks, tags, to-dos, note links, and attachments.

Ask your AI agent instead

Export everything as JEX

Tools > Create backup writes the same file, byte for byte, as all_notebooks.jex inside a JoplinBackup folder in your home folder. If Joplin already makes those backups for you, the newest one works just as well.

  1. Open Joplin on your computer.
  2. Choose File > Export all > "JEX - Joplin Export File".
  3. Save the file. You get one .jex file that holds every notebook, so there is nothing to zip.
  4. Drop that .jex in as it is.

Pick JEX, not Markdown, HTML or PDF

Export all also offers MD, MD + Front Matter, HTML directory and PDF. Those are copies made for reading in other apps. The JEX file is Joplin's own record of every note, notebook, tag and attachment, and it is the one we read. Drop one of the other exports in and we will say so rather than import half of it.

If you already exported "RAW - Joplin Export Directory", zip that folder and drop the zip in. It holds the same items as the JEX file.

Take notes out of the trash before you export

Joplin leaves the trash out of every export and every backup. Move any note you want to keep out of the trash before you export, or it stays behind in Joplin.

What comes along

Your notebooks are rebuilt as real folders, nested as deep as Joplin nested them, and every note keeps its tags and the created and updated dates Joplin showed you.

To-dos become task notes with a checkbox you can tick off, already ticked when the to-do was done, and a due date stays written beside the title. Links between notes become note-links. Images and attachments are imported into your storage and stay in place in the note. Notes saved as HTML, such as many web clips, are converted with their formatting.

Notes from Joplin's Conflicts notebook arrive tagged "conflict", so you can find and sort them. If you use Joplin's encryption, let it finish decrypting before you export: an item that is still encrypted is skipped, and the import preview tells you how many.

Import into PrivacyNotes

  1. Open PrivacyNotes and go to Settings > Import & Export.
  2. Pick Joplin as the source.
  3. Drop in the file you just exported, or click to browse.
  4. Check what the preview says will arrive, then start the import.

Still stuck? Ask your AI agent.

You get an answer in seconds instead of waiting for a reply. Your assistant reads all 153 answers and every import guide at once, so it can combine them, follow up on your question, and explain it in your own words. We never see any of it, because we do not run a chatbot.

  1. Copy the prompt.
  2. Paste it into ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, or any other AI assistant.
  3. Ask your question, in your own language.
  4. Keep that chat open. Next time, ask straight away.
Show AI prompt 
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/LifetimeLabsHQ/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.

My first question:

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