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Import & export

Leaving Smritsavant is a supported feature. Your notes are never in a proprietary blob: the store is a plain SQLite database on your disk, and everything exports to open formats you can read without us.

Per-canvas export

From Settings → Data & Storage, any canvas exports to Markdown, HTML, JSON, or PDF. Attachments come along; wikilinks, callouts, math, and Mermaid diagrams survive as standard syntax.

The export CLI

smritsavant-export is a standalone command-line tool (a single small binary, independent of the app) that dumps your entire library as a portable markdown vault in the widely-supported extended syntax:

smritsavant-export                        # export everything to ./smritsavant-export-<timestamp>/
smritsavant-export --canvas "Field notes" # a single canvas
smritsavant-export --db PATH --out DIR    # explicit database and output paths
smritsavant-export --quiet                # print just the output path (for scripts)

The output is one folder per canvas, one .md file per note with YAML frontmatter (id, canvas, timestamps, memory type, tags, properties, links and backlinks), an _assets/ folder with your files copied verbatim, and a _meta/ folder holding the canvas list and link graph as JSON. Drop the folder into any markdown vault app and it opens as-is — wikilinks, transclusions, callouts, math, and Mermaid diagrams use the same extended syntax those apps already render.

Because the CLI is separate from the app, it keeps working even if the app won’t launch or your trial has ended.

Whole-library backup

Settings → Data & Storage → Backup produces a single archive of everything — every canvas, attachment, and setting — and Restore from Backup brings it back. Since there’s no server copy of your notes, make this a habit; any synced folder can be your backup target too.

Importing

  • Drag audio files onto the editor to import and transcribe them.
  • Drag PDFs and any other files to embed or attach them.
  • Markdown content pastes cleanly into the editor, including tables and code fences.

Where your data lives

The app’s data directory (shown in Settings → About) contains the SQLite database, attachments, and downloaded models. It’s yours — back it up, inspect it, or read the database directly; the schema for note bodies is documented in the export’s _meta/README.

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