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Help & FAQ/Import guides

Export your Notesnook notes

Notesnook can write your whole account out as a folder of files. Choose the HTML export and nothing is left behind: formatting, notebooks, tags, attachments, and the links between your notes all survive the move.

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Notesnook settings, Backup & export page, with the Export as dropdown open and HTML selected.

Export your notes

  1. Open Notesnook and go to Settings > Backup & export.
  2. Find "Export all notes" and open the "Export as" dropdown.
  3. Pick HTML. This matters: it is the only format Notesnook writes without first stripping your formatting.
  4. Notesnook saves a single .zip containing one file per note plus an attachments folder. That zip is your import file.

Pick HTML, not Markdown

Notesnook's export dropdown offers Text, Markdown, Markdown + Frontmatter, and HTML. Only HTML keeps everything.

Both Markdown options flatten your notes before writing them: underline, font sizes, and text alignment are gone before the file ever reaches us. The plain Markdown option also writes no tags and no original dates, so every imported note would be untagged and stamped with today's date. We still accept both, and we will tell you what was lost, but HTML is the one to choose.

The Text export has no structure to read and is not accepted.

What comes along

Your notebooks are rebuilt as real folders, not flattened into tags, at whatever depth Notesnook nested them. A note in Work > Projects lands in a Work > Projects folder.

Pinned and favorited notes stay marked. Notesnook keeps Pin and Favorite as two separate properties; PrivacyNotes has a single Pinned list, so a note that was either one lands there.

Highlights, math, and text alignment come across as themselves: highlighted text stays highlighted, formulas render again as math, and centered or right-aligned blocks keep their alignment. Custom fonts, font sizes, and text colors have no equivalent here, so that styling is dropped and the text is kept.

A backup file is not an export

Notesnook can also save a backup file ending in .nnbackupz. That is a different thing: it stores every attachment in Notesnook's own encrypted format, which only Notesnook can unpack. Drop one here and we will say so rather than importing half of it. Use "Export all notes" as HTML instead.

Import into PrivacyNotes

  1. Open PrivacyNotes and go to Settings > Import & Export.
  2. Pick Notesnook 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 85 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 and its changelog.

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 and https://privacynotes.app/changelog instead.

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

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.
- Reply in my language.
- 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.