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Moving your notes into Folevi
Folevi imports Markdown and text files, folders and ZIPs, and exports pages as Markdown, HTML or PDF, or everything as a ZIP. Here is what comes across and how.
Folevi imports Markdown and plain text. Most note apps can export Markdown, so the usual way across is to export from your old app as Markdown, then import the files into Folevi. This post covers what comes across, what doesn’t, and how to take everything out again.
What Folevi imports
In Settings → Import & export, choose any of these:
- Markdown files (.md or .markdown)
- plain text files (.txt)
- a ZIP of them
- a whole folder
Each file becomes a page in the space you’re in: your Personal or a workspace. If a Markdown file starts with front matter that has a title, Folevi uses it; otherwise the page takes the file name. Folevi imports up to 50 documents at a time, so a large export goes in in parts. The new pages land in Drafts, where you can file them into folders.
How Markdown turns into blocks
| Markdown | Becomes |
|---|---|
# Heading | Heading 1, 2 or 3 (deeper headings become Heading 3) |
- item | A bulleted or numbered list, with its nesting |
- [ ] task | A to-do, ticked or not. It’s a task like any other. |
> quote | A quote |
> [!NOTE] | A callout (note, tip, info, warning and the rest) |
```js | A code block with its language |
| table | | A table with a header row |
--- | A divider |
$$ … $$ | A TeX formula |
 | An image block, uploaded with the page |
A to-do written as - [ ] Call the printer (due 2026-10-02) comes in with its due date, which is the same way Folevi writes due dates when it exports. Images the Markdown points to by a relative path are uploaded if they’re in the folder or ZIP and are PNG, JPEG, GIF or WebP. Images on the web are shown from their web address.
What doesn’t come across
Folevi keeps anything it can’t turn into a block as plain text and tells you. After the import, it lists each file with what happened, for example:
- raw HTML, which is imported as text,
- footnotes, which become ordinary paragraphs,
- nested quotes, which are flattened into one,
- an image it couldn’t find, which is kept as a link.
Wiki links written as [[Page name]] also come in as plain text. Once your pages are in, type [[ to link them again.
Check the result
When the import finishes, Settings lists every file with a link to its new page, how many images were uploaded, and any warnings with the line they came from. A file that came in cleanly says “Imported without changes”. Open a few pages next to the originals and look at tables, nested lists and images first, since those are where formats differ most.
Imported pages start in Drafts. Select several at once and choose Move to folder to file them, then tag or star the ones you use most. If your export has more than 50 documents, import it one folder at a time.
Exporting from the app you use now
Our comparison pages have the steps for each app, with links to its own help pages: Notion, Craft, Apple Notes, Obsidian, Bear and Evernote. Obsidian notes are already Markdown files. Evernote exports ENEX, which Folevi can’t read, so those notes need converting to Markdown first.
Taking everything out again
Export works on every plan, including Free:
- Any page, from its ••• menu, as Markdown, HTML or PDF. PDF goes through your browser’s print dialog (Save as PDF).
- Everything in your Personal, from Settings → Import & export, as one ZIP. Owners and admins can export a whole workspace the same way.
The ZIP holds every page as a Markdown file, in folders that match your sidebar. Attachments are in an assets folder, and a manifest.json file describes the folders, pages and files. Flowcharts are written as Mermaid diagrams, so they stay readable in other tools.
The export uses the same Markdown the import reads. To-dos keep their due dates, and callouts are written in the > [!NOTE] form, so a page you export from Folevi and import again comes back with its tasks and callouts in place.
If you move to a smaller plan, your notes stay, and you can still export all of them. Import and export in the docs has the reference, and import and export the overview.