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Help & FAQ/Import guides

Export your Standard Notes

Standard Notes offers a decrypted backup export, and that is the file PrivacyNotes reads. One important detail up front: it must be the decrypted variant, not the encrypted one.

Ask your AI agent instead

Export your notes from Standard Notes

  1. Open Standard Notes (web at app.standardnotes.com, or the desktop app) and sign in.
  2. Open Preferences, then the Backups section.
  3. Download a data backup and choose the decrypted format when asked.
  4. You get a .zip containing a file named "Standard Notes Backup and Import File.txt". Keep the zip as it is.

Super notes, checklists and 2FA codes keep their shape

Super notes keep their headings, lists, checklists, tables, code blocks, colors and collapsible sections. Checklists land in Tasks, spreadsheets become tables, and authenticator entries become logins in the Vault with their 2FA key. Nested tags become folders, and each note keeps its tags as well.

Files you uploaded to Standard Notes stay on their server, so the backup holds only their names. Each imported note marks where a file was. Download those files from Standard Notes and add them to the note again.

Encrypted backups are not supported

An encrypted Standard Notes backup is ciphertext that only your Standard Notes password can open, so the importer cannot read it. If you exported the encrypted variant, export again and pick decrypted. Since the file contains your notes in plain text, delete it after the import is done.

Drop the whole .zip into the importer, or just the .txt file if you already unzipped it.

Import into PrivacyNotes

  1. Open PrivacyNotes and go to Settings > Import & Export.
  2. Pick Standard Notes 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 116 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/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.

My first question:

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