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. 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.

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

For a video, check the Github readme.

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

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 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