Welcome to Jimmy's documentation!

Jimmy is a tool to convert your notes from different formats to Markdown.

Installation

Download Jimmy here: Linux | Windows | macOS

Use Cases

• Migrate between note apps
• Save your notes in a future-proof, human-readable format
• Prepare your notes for processing in a LLM

Demo

Example commands for the Linux CLI app:

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

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

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

For a video, check the Github readme.

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

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

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 Drafts Dynalist E Evernote F Facebook FuseBase / Nimbus Note G Google Docs Google Keep J Joplin jrnl N Notion O Obsidian Q QOwnNotes R RedNotebook Roam Research S Simplenote Standard Notes Synology Note Station T Telegram Textbundle / Textpack Tiddlywiki Tomboy-ng / Gnote Turtl 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 O ODT OPML R reStructuredText RTF T txt2tags

General Usage

flowchart LR
    A[App 1] -->|Backup| M
    B[App 2] -->|Export| M
    C[...] --> M
    D[Filesystem] --> M
    M(ZIP archive/JSON/Folder) --> N
    N{Jimmy} --> O(Markdown + Frontmatter)
    O -->|Import| P[Joplin]
    O -->|Import| Q[Obsidian]
    O --> R[...]
    O --> S[Editor, e. g. VSCode]

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 even use any editor like VSCode

Step-by-step Instructions

Step	Linux / macOS Example	Windows Example
Export your notes to your download folder	/home/user/Downloads/Export.zip	C:\Users\user\Downloads\Export.zip
Download Jimmy to your download folder [1]	/home/user/Downloads/jimmy-cli-linux	C:\Users\user\Downloads\jimmy-cli-windows.exe
Open a terminal	Linux / macOS instructions	Windows instructions
Change to the download folder	cd /home/user/Downloads/	cd C:\Users\user\Downloads\
Make Jimmy executable	chmod +x jimmy-cli-linux	-
Do the conversion [2] [3]	./jimmy-cli-linux Export.zip --format notion	jimmy-cli-windows.exe Export.zip --format notion
Check the output folder	/home/user/Downloads/20250226T200101Z - Jimmy Import from notion	C:\Users\user\Downloads\20250226T200101Z - Jimmy Import from notion

[1] On Windows: If Jimmy is flagged as virus, please report the false positive to your antivirus vendor. As workaround, you can try an older version of Jimmy.

[2] On macOS: If there is the error message zsh: bad CPU type in executable, please use this executable. It is supported by Intel chips.

[3] On macOS: If there is the error message "jimmy-cli-darwin-arm64" cannot be opened because the developer cannot be verified, please authorize Jimmy at System Settings → Privacy & Security → Security → Open Anyway. See also the Apple support guide.