{"id":43596,"date":"2024-06-07T16:34:10","date_gmt":"2024-06-07T20:34:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=43596"},"modified":"2024-06-07T16:34:10","modified_gmt":"2024-06-07T20:34:10","slug":"import-and-export-from-apple-notes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2024\/06\/07\/import-and-export-from-apple-notes\/","title":{"rendered":"Import and Export From Apple Notes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/daringfireball.net\/linked\/2024\/05\/31\/whats-next-for-journal\">John Gruber<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/daringfireball.net\/linked\/2024\/05\/31\/whats-next-for-journal\">\n<p>I worry that import and export aren&rsquo;t priorities for Apple. Apple Notes can import RTF and plain text files, but its only option for exporting is, bizarrely, PDF&#x2009;&mdash;&#x2009;which is a file format Notes can&rsquo;t import. A good system for import\/export would allow for full fidelity round-tripping. You should be able to export to a file or archive format that Notes can also import, without losing any formatting, metadata, or image attachments. Notes doesn&rsquo;t even try. And if Notes still doesn&rsquo;t support robust import\/export, 17 years after it debuted as one of the original iPhone apps in 2007, we probably shouldn&rsquo;t hold our breath for Journal.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/c-command.com\/eaglefiler\/\">Open formats<\/a> are where it&rsquo;s at.<\/p>\n\n<p>Previously:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2024\/05\/23\/the-dark-age-of-authentication\/\">The Dark Age of Authentication<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2020\/03\/04\/apples-not-quite-secure-notes\/\">Apple&rsquo;s (Not Quite) Secure Notes<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2018\/08\/10\/exporting-apple-notes-to-markdown\/\">Exporting Apple Notes to Markdown<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2018\/05\/07\/requesting-your-personal-data-from-apple\/\">Requesting Your Personal Data From Apple<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Gruber: I worry that import and export aren&rsquo;t priorities for Apple. Apple Notes can import RTF and plain text files, but its only option for exporting is, bizarrely, PDF&#x2009;&mdash;&#x2009;which is a file format Notes can&rsquo;t import. A good system for import\/export would allow for full fidelity round-tripping. You should be able to export to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2024-06-07T20:34:12Z","apple_news_api_id":"919157a7-1aae-4596-8801-d90f8a289809","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2024-06-07T20:34:12Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AkZFXpxquRZaIAdkPiiiYCQ","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[31,2321,2397,30,2385,700],"class_list":["post-43596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-ios","tag-ios-17","tag-journal","tag-mac","tag-macos-14-sonoma","tag-notes"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43596","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43596"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43596\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43597,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43596\/revisions\/43597"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}