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Export your notes as Markdown

Your notes are yours to take anywhere. Remindly for Mac writes every note as a Markdown file, one folder per notebook, with attachments and working links, ready for Obsidian, iA Writer or any text editor.

  • 2 minutes
  • Works on Mac, iPhone, iPad
  • Remindly for Mac to export everything

Export all your notes

Exporting everything is in Remindly for Mac.

  1. Choose File → Export All Notes as Markdown… (⇧⌘E).

  2. Pick a folder and click Export Here.

    Remindly makes a folder called Remindly inside the one you pick.

  3. Wait for Export finished.

    Remindly first downloads any attachments this Mac doesn't have yet, then writes the files. Finder opens with the new folder selected.

What you get

  • A folder for each notebook, with nested notebooks as folders inside it. Notes with no notebook sit at the top.
  • A .md file for each note, named after its title.
  • An _attachments folder with your images and files. Notes link to them, so they show up in Markdown editors.
  • Working links between notes: each points at the other note's file.
  • Details at the top of each file, in frontmatter that Obsidian and other apps can read:
--- id: 6f1c0e2a-… title: "Trip to Lisbon" notebook: Personal tags: ["travel", "2026"] created: 2026-10-12T18:03:11.000Z updated: 2026-10-20T09:41:00.000Z --- The note, in Markdown…

It's a copy. Later changes in Remindly don't update it. Export into the same folder again to refresh it: files with the same names are replaced, and notes in the Trash are left out.

Share one note as Markdown

On iPhone, iPad and Mac, you can send a single note's Markdown to another app.

  1. Open the note's More (…) menu.

    Or touch and hold the note in the list (right-click on a Mac).

  2. Choose Share → Share as Markdown.

  3. Pick the app or person to send it to.

    The note is shared as text. Attachments aren't included.

If something's not right

Can I export everything from my iPhone?
No, exporting all notes is in Remindly for Mac. On iPhone and iPad, share one note at a time with Share as Markdown.
Can I export just one notebook?
Not on its own. The export always includes every note, and each notebook gets its own folder, so you can copy just the one you need.
It says some attachments couldn't be downloaded
Check your internet connection and export again. Attachments that couldn't be downloaded are left out; everything else is exported.
Do reminders come along?
No. The files hold each note's text, tags, notebook and dates, but not its reminder.

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