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 data you can already see in the app. Export is a one-way snapshot you can re-run any time.

You'll find it in Memory (also called Second Brain) in the sidebar (⌘4 also opens it). Choose the Export tab (⌥⌘6).

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 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 misread copies of the same address collapse into a single note. Each note lists the days that person showed up.
• Links/: one note per web address seen, 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: an overview of the vault: your most-connected nodes, surprising connections, and a few questions worth exploring, all resolving to the notes above.

Finished days are included, and so is a day you've stopped but haven't reviewed yet. 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 snapshot Memory's Connections tab 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).

Exporting meetings#

The vault covers your days, not your meetings. To export a meeting, open it and press Export to save its transcript as .txt, .md, .srt, .vtt or .json, or Audio to save its recording as an .m4a file. Everpaper asks where to save each one. In the Library, each row has Save Transcript… and Save Audio…. To send a meeting's to-dos to Reminders, use Add to Reminders in Today's focus. See also Meetings and Command line.

Your word list can be saved too: in Settings → Speech → Your words & phrases, Backup has Export….

Where the files land#

By default the vault and graph are written inside Everpaper's own folder in your user Library. 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 (GraphML + Mermaid). for the graph).

Before you export#

Export needs something to export, so journal a few days first. With nothing captured yet, the status line reads Exported 0 days….

On a new install, Everpaper deletes a day's written entry and recognized text after your screenshot limit (30 days by default; see How long your days are kept). Older days then export with only their timeline and your notes. Export before then, or change that setting, if you want full notes for older days.