Bring your notes to Notelet

How it works

1. Export your notes from the other app (the steps for each are below).
2. In Notelet, choose File › Import to Notes… On a phone, open a notes list’s … menu and choose Import Notes.
3. Pick the files, a folder or a .zip. Notelet shows what will come in, and nothing changes until you choose Import.
4. The notes arrive in a new folder, “Imported Notes”, with the export’s own folders inside it. To put them all in one folder, turn off “Preserve folder structure on import” (on a phone, choose Import Without Folders).

Notes in the other app’s Bin or Trash, and files that belong to no note, are left out, and Notelet says why.

From Apple Notes

1. On a Mac, open Notes, select the notes you want (click one, then Edit › Select All for a whole folder).
2. Choose File › Export To › Markdown (in recent versions of macOS) and save them into a folder.
3. In Notelet, choose File › Import to Notes… and pick that folder.

What comes across: Titles, text, checklists and their ticks, code blocks, and pictures and other attachments. Notes’ Markdown export carries no dates, so each note takes its file’s date.

No Mac? Notelet can also read the Notes in Apple’s data download from privacy.apple.com, as folders of text files with their attachments. That route is less tested. There’s no importer for Apple Reminders yet.

From Google Keep

1. At takeout.google.com, deselect everything, select Keep, and create the export.
2. Download the archive.
3. In Notelet, choose File › Import to Notes… and pick the .zip, or the Takeout/Keep folder inside it.

What comes across: Titles (or the first line), text, lists as checklists, pictures, labels as #tags, pins, and the dates written and edited. Archived notes go in an Archive folder; notes in Keep’s Bin are left out.

A very large Takeout is best imported a part at a time.

From Evernote

1. In Evernote, export each notebook as an ENEX file (.enex).
2. In Notelet, choose File › Import to Notes… and pick the files.

What comes across: Each notebook becomes a folder. Titles, formatting (bold, italic, lists, links), checkboxes, pictures and files, tags, and the dates created and updated.

From Simplenote

1. In Simplenote, choose Settings › Export Notes.
2. In Notelet, choose File › Import to Notes… and pick the exported folder or .zip.

What comes across: The first line as the title, the text (Markdown notes read as Markdown), tags, pins and dates. Notes in Simplenote’s Trash are left out.

From Bear

1. In Bear, export your notes as TextBundle (or Markdown).
2. In Notelet, choose File › Import to Notes… and pick the files or their folder.

What comes across: The top heading as the title, the text with its #tags, and the pictures and files in each TextBundle.

From Obsidian, or any folder of Markdown

1. In Notelet, choose File › Import to Notes… and pick the vault’s folder.

What comes across: Folders, front matter (tags, created, updated, title), embedded pictures and files (![[embeds]] and ![](paths)) as attachments, and [[links]] as their words. Obsidian’s own .obsidian settings folder is skipped.

Notion’s Markdown export imports the same way.

Taking your notes out again

File › Export To › Markdown saves a note as a Markdown file, and any note can be saved as a PDF, printed or shared. There’s no one-step export of the whole library yet.

Common questions