Inktally’s export is designed so you’re never locked in. At any time, on any plan, you can pull a complete copy of every document and note in your vault — decrypted, in original formats.
What you get
The export is a single .zip file containing:
- Every document in its original format (PDFs as PDFs, images as images, etc.) inside a top-level
documents/folder. - Every note as a plain
.md(Markdown) file insidenotes/— just the note text, with the note’s title as the filename. No metadata sidecar.
What’s NOT in the export
We deliberately keep the export scope tight — files only. Not included: your audit log, recipients, triggers, assignments, groups, and tags — each lives on its own settings page.
How to export
Settings → Data → Export your files. You’ll be asked to re-authenticate (step-up) since this assembles every file you keep with us into a single archive. The decryption happens in your browser — we never see the plaintext bytes.
Keep the tab open until the download starts. For a vault with a few dozen items the whole run takes a couple of seconds; larger vaults scale roughly linearly with total file size.
Decoy exports
Exporting from a decoy session produces a decoy-only archive — none of the real-vault data is included. The shape of the zip is identical to a real-vault export, so an attacker inspecting the file can’t distinguish.
Continuity context
Export is one of the four core continuity commitments — you can read more about them on the continuity page. The short version: if Inktally ever winds down, you have at least 90 days notice to export, and the export works the same in a wind-down as it does today.