Reference

How export works

What a downloaded note holds, how a ZIP of notes is named, the full export, and exporting skills.

One note

Download .md on the note, or tick it in the list. The file is the note’s body with YAML frontmatter: title, tags, description, who wrote the description, source, source URL, status, created and updated dates. Wiki-links stay as written, so the file drops into a vault unchanged.

Several notes

Tick them in the Notes list and download a ZIP. Each file is named after its note’s title, so the ZIP opens as an Obsidian vault and [[Title]] opens the note; a note imported from a vault goes back to the folder and file it came from, unless that file was named only after its title, as memex’s own export names them.

Characters a file name cannot hold (: / \ ? * " < > | # ^ [ ]) become a space, so in Obsidian a link to such a title does not open; imported back into memex, it links again. Notes whose titles match, ignoring case, get the note number added. Tags keep their exact text, and exported Markdown preserves body whitespace. A failed archive write produces an error.

Everything

Settings › Notes › Export › Download notes: one ZIP, one file per note, pending notes included. History, deleted notes and the journal are not in it; the journal downloads separately from Activity.

The same ZIP moves your notes to another memex account: imported there, each note arrives with its tags, description and dates. Connections, keys, settings, history and deleted notes stay behind. See How import works.

Skills

The skills export API downloads a ZIP with one folder per served skill, each holding a SKILL.md, the format Claude Code, Codex and other tools that read Agent Skills already understand. A single skill downloads the same way, as one file, from its panel.