Free your notes by converting them to Markdown.

:floppy_disk: Download: Linux | Windows | macOS

If there is an issue at download or execution, please take a look at the step-by-step instructions.

:blue_book: Documentation

:star: If Jimmy is useful for you, feel free to star it on GitHub.

Use Cases

• Migrate between note apps. Jimmy's output is compatible with Joplin, Obsidian and more.
• Save your notes in a future-proof, human-readable format.
• Prepare your notes for processing in a LLM.
• Convert folders of office documents and PDFs recursively to Markdown.

Demo

Jimmy provides two interfaces:

• The Command Line Interface (CLI) can be used for scripting and provides the full set of features.
• The Terminal User Interface (TUI) can be used to do the conversion interactively. Currently it provides only a feature subset and is still in beta.

Example commands for Linux:

# do the conversion using an interactive TUI
jimmy-linux tui

# convert a single file supported by pandoc
jimmy-linux cli libre_office_document.odt

# convert all files in a folder
jimmy-linux cli path/to/folder

# convert a Google Keep export
jimmy-linux cli takeout-20240401T160516Z-001.zip --format google_keep

This is an example of a successful conversion:

TUI	CLI

If there is an issue at download or execution, please take a look at the step-by-step instructions.

Features

• ✅ Several supported input formats
• ✅ Markdown + Front matter output
  • Compatible with any text editor
  • Can be imported to Joplin/Obsidian/...
  • Preserves resources, tags and note links when possible
• ✅ Offline
• ✅ Open Source
• ✅ Cross-platform
• ✅ Standalone (no Docker, Python or Node.js installation required)
• ❎ No AI used during conversion

Supported Apps

Export data from your app and convert it to Markdown. For details, click on the links.

A Anki Anytype B Bear C Cacher CherryTree Clipto ColorNote D Day One Diaro Drafts Dynalist E Evernote F Facebook FuseBase / Nimbus Note G Google Docs Google Keep J Joplin jrnl N Notion O Obsidian OneNote Q QOwnNotes R RedNotebook Reflect Roam Research S Signal Simplenote Standard Notes Synology Note Station T Telegram Textbundle / Textpack Tiddlywiki Tomboy-ng / Gnote Turtl U UpNote W Wordpress Z Zettelkasten Zim Zoho Notebook

Supported Formats

Convert a single file or a folder (recursively). Files of these formats will be converted to Markdown. The formats can be mixed. For example, you can convert a folder with two Asciidoc files and one DOCX file. The conversion result will be a folder with three Markdown files and the corresponding attachments.

A Asciidoc C CSV D DocBook DOCX E EML EPUB F Fountain H HTML J Jupyter Notebook M Markdown MediaWiki MHTML O ODT OPML P PDF R reStructuredText RTF T txt2tags

General Usage

1. Export/backup notes from your note application
2. Run jimmy, which converts your notes to Markdown
3. Import the result to Joplin/Obsidian or use any editor to view the notes

After conversion, the notes should be available in a folder named like YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS - Import. Make sure your data is converted properly :exclamation:

What is converted (in most cases)?

• Note content
• Tags / Labels
• Images / Resources / Attachments
• External links and internal note links

Simplified Internal Workflow

Similar Projects

• Notesnook Importer
• Obsidian-Importer
• YANOM-Note-O-Matic (fork)
• MarkItDown