Export

Export turns what Everpaper has already captured into open, portable files you can browse, link, and visualize in other tools. Nothing new leaves your machine — export only writes out the on-device, redacted data you can already see in the app. The database stays the source of truth; export is a one-way snapshot you can re-run any time.

You'll find it in the Second Brain. Open it from the Index (⌘K) and go to the Export tab (⌘4).

Export an Obsidian vault

Export Obsidian vault writes your whole journal as a folder of linked Markdown notes — the kind of vault Obsidian, Logseq, or any plain-Markdown editor can open directly.

Each completed day becomes a daily note, and the people, sites, and files you encountered become their own notes, joined together with [[wikilinks]] so the whole thing browses as a connected web.

What you get:

• Days/ — one note per captured day, with the day's narrative, a timeline of what you worked on, and linked lists of the People, Links, and Files seen that day. Your own notes for the day come along too. Each note carries frontmatter (date, captures, tags).
• People/ — one note per person, built from the email addresses in your history. Addresses are humanized into names (jane.smith@example.com becomes Jane Smith), and OCR variants of the same address collapse into a single note. Each note lists the days that person showed up.
• Links/ — one note per web address you returned to, backlinked to the days it appeared.
• Files/ — one note per file, backlinked to the days it appeared.
• Topics/ — "area" notes for the clusters Everpaper detected in your graph, each linking its members.
• GRAPH_REPORT.md — a map-of-content for the vault: your most-connected nodes, surprising connections, and a few questions worth exploring, all resolving to the notes above.

Only completed days are included, and every note is plain Markdown — no lock-in. Re-running the export refreshes the vault in place.

Export a graph

Export graph (GraphML + Mermaid) writes your knowledge graph — the people, sites, and files that recur together — in two visualization-ready formats:

• graph.graphml — open it in yEd, Gephi, or Obsidian's graph plugins for an interactive, laid-out view.
• graph.mermaid — a Mermaid graph TD diagram you can paste straight into Markdown, Obsidian, or Notion, or render at mermaid.live.

Both are derived from the same recurring-node snapshot the Second Brain's Network tab already shows: nodes are the things you keep returning to, and edges are the links between things that keep appearing together (weighted by how strong the connection is).

Where the files land

By default both exports write inside Everpaper's own folder:

• Obsidian vault — ~/Library/Application Support/HindsightNext/ObsidianVault/
• Graph files — ~/Library/Application Support/HindsightNext/GraphExport/

After an export runs, a Reveal in Finder button appears next to it — the quickest way to jump to the files. The status line below the buttons confirms what was written (for example, Exported 12 days · 34 people · 18 links · 9 files. for the vault, or Exported graph · 60 nodes · 142 edges for the graph).

Before you export

Export needs something to materialize, so journal a few days first. If there's nothing to write yet, Everpaper tells you so rather than creating an empty vault.