# 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.

## 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.

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Source: https://privacynotes.app/help/import/notesnook