Welcome to jimmy's documentation!

jimmy is a tool to import your notes from different formats to Markdown.

Features

  • ✅ Several supported input formats
  • ✅ Markdown + Frontmatter 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 NodeJS installation required)

Installation

Download jimmy here: Linux | Windows | MacOS

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
Dynalist
E
Evernote
F
Facebook
FuseBase, Nimbus Note
G
Google Docs
Google Keep
J
Joplin
jrnl
N
Notion
O
Obsidian
Q
QOwnNotes
R
RedNotebook
S
Simplenote
Standard Notes
Synology Note Station
T Textbundle, Textpack
Tiddlywiki
Tomboy-ng, Gnote
Turtl
Z
Zettelkasten
Zim
Zoho Notebook

Supported Formats

Import 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 import 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

For detailed instructions, see the page of the specific format.

Quickstart

  1. Import from text files or import from specific apps, like Google Keep
  2. Verify that everything was converted properly. The Markdown notes should be available in a new folder named like YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS - Jimmy Import.