Exporter 4+

The app seems to work as advertised, but, as the notes are exported as .txt files, rich items are not included. For bold, italic, or other similarly basic rich text features, the loss isn’t a big deal (at least for me), but the big problem is that iOS-10-style links shared from Safari or another browser are not preserved, nor are attached pictures or other rich media. I have saved several notes in which the focal point is those links or pictures, so if the note is saved without them, it’s pointless. It would be great if links were there, even as plain-text links, and if notes had attached pictures as separate files with “same-name-pic1”. Same for videos and drawings.

Also, I think that the file names for the exported notes should include the modification date of the original note, in order to avoid the renaming of identically titled notes.

But could use some polish
- Hyperlinks are NOT exported
- Images are NOT exported
- The app does NOT talk about the two items above
- the app takes up a lot of system resources, and doesn't have a clear answer for how long it will take.
- It sets "in progress" status on the exported files, and doesn't seem to unset that status after export.
- I can't find the in-app purchase button for notes filtering
- The app becomes completely unresponsive when it's exporting (doesn't even show up when clicking the dock icon)
- It does not export subfolders, so you'll have to recreate your folder structure in the app you're moving to
- Uses .txt as extension for the files, but they are in fact markup

But hey, it works - and it's a better backup than nothing. Thanks for putting this together, I'm sure it helps a lot of people.

I hunted for an app to export the data in the Notes app for a while and this so far has been the best easy to use tool to get a full backup of your notes in a readable format. If you’re a notes junkie you should try to get a backup periodically as Apple is not infallible. Along with the potential for a server issue, there’s also hacking, accidents, and so forth. I use the tool a few times a year to export out as HTML in the unlikely but possible situation where I lose notes data. No other app or tool I’ve found does it quite as easy and smoothly. One of these days I’ll need to try and automate the backup - and I wish Apple would support notes better with Time Machine backups! 30 days of cloud recovery is not enough.