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Free your notes by converting them to Markdown.

💾 Download:Linux |Windows |MacOS

If there is an issue at download or execution, please take a look at thestep-by-step instructions.

📘 For detailed information, take a look at theDocumentation.

⭐ If Jimmy is useful for you, feel free to star it onGithub.

• ✅ Several supported input formats
• ✅ Markdown + Frontmatter output
  • Compatible with any text editor
  • Can be imported to Joplin/Obsidian/...
  • Preserves resources, tags and note links when possible
• ✅ Offline
• ✅ Open Source
• ✅ Cross-platform
• ✅ Standalone (no Docker, Python or NodeJS installation required)
• ❎ No AI

Export data from your app and convert it to Markdown. For details, click on the links.

A	Anki	Anytype
B	Bear
C	Cacher	CherryTree	Clipto	ColorNote
D	Day One	Dynalist
E	Evernote
F	Facebook	FuseBase, Nimbus Note
G	Google Docs	Google Keep
J	Joplin	jrnl
N	Notion
O	Obsidian
Q	QOwnNotes
R	RedNotebook
S	Simplenote	Standard Notes	Synology Note Station
T	Textbundle, Textpack	Tiddlywiki	Tomboy-ng, Gnote	Turtl
W	Wordpress
Z	Zettelkasten	Zim	Zoho Notebook

Import a single file or a folder (recursively). Files of these formats will be converted to Markdown. The formats can be mixed. For example you can import a folder with two Asciidoc files and one docx file. The conversion result will be a folder with three Markdown files and the corresponding attachments.

A	Asciidoc
C	CSV
D	DocBook	docx
E	eml	EPUB
F	Fountain
H	HTML
J	Jupyter Notebook
M	Markdown	MediaWiki
O	ODT	OPML
R	reStructuredText	RTF
T	txt2tags

flowchart LR    A[App 1] -->|Backup| M    B[App 2] -->|Export| M    C[...] --> M    D[Filesystem] --> M    M(ZIP archive/JSON/Folder) --> N    N{jimmy} --> O(Markdown + Frontmatter)    O -->|Import| P[Joplin]    O -->|Import| Q[Obsidian]    O --> R[...]    O --> S[Editor, e. g. VSCode]

1. Export/backup notes from your note application
2. Runjimmy, which converts your notes to Markdown
3. Import the result to Joplin/Obsidian or use any editor to view the notes

After conversion, the notes should be available in a folder named likeYYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS - Import. Make sure your data is converted properly ❗

What is converted (in most cases)?

• Note content
• Tags / Labels
• Images / Resources / Attachments
• External links and internal note links

[1] On Windows: If jimmy is flagged as virus, pleasereport the false positive to your antivirus vendor. As workaround you can try an older version of jimmy.

[2] On MacOS: If there is the error messagezsh: bad CPU type in executable, please usethis executable. It is supported by Intel chips.

[3] On MacOS: If there is the error message"jimmy-cli-darwin-arm64" cannot be opened because the developer cannot be verified, please authorize jimmy at System Settings > Privacy & Security > Security > Open Anyway. See also theApple support guide.

Example commands for the Linux CLI app:

# import a single file supported by pandocjimmy-cli-linux libre_office_document.odt# import all files in a folderjimmy-cli-linux path/to/folder# import a Google Keep exportjimmy-cli-linux takeout-20240401T160516Z-001.zip --format google_keep

This is an example of a successful conversion:

$ jimmy-cli-linux .cache/google_keep/takeout-20240401T160516Z-001.zip --format google_keep --frontmatter joplin[09/19/24 15:15:34] INFO     Importing notes from".cache/google_keep/takeout-20240401T160516Z-001.zip"                    INFO     Start parsing                    INFO     Finished parsing: 1 notebooks, 3 notes, 1 resources, 3 tags                    INFO     Start filtering                    INFO     Finished filtering: 1 notebooks, 3 notes, 1 resources, 3 tags                    INFO     Start writing to file system                    INFO     Converted notes successfully to Markdown:"20240919T131534Z - Jimmy Import from google_keep". Please verify that everything was converted correctly.                    INFO     Feel free to open an issue on Github, write a message at the Joplin forum or an email.Notebooks  100%|████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████| 1/1 [00:00<00:00]Notes      100%|████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████| 3/3 [00:00<00:00]Resources  100%|████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████| 1/1 [00:00<00:00]Tags       100%|████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████| 3/3 [00:00<00:00]

• Obsidian-Importer
• YANOM-Note-O-Matic (fork)