Personal Backup
Keep a personal copy of your memos and their files.
All features
Memos feature
Take your memos with you
Export packs your memos, their metadata, and attached files into one ZIP you can read outside Memos.
Download every memo you wrote, with attached files, as a ZIP of Markdown and JSON.
Benefits
What changes when you use it.
Each point describes what current Memos releases do.
Memo content as Markdown you can read in any text editor
JSON metadata for each memo: times, visibility, pinned state, location, and Space
Includes your active and archived memos and your comments, regardless of filters
Attached files included, whether stored in the database, on disk, or in S3
Relations kept, so links between memos survive an import
Share a single memo as an image when you need a picture instead
Use cases
Where it earns its place.
Reading Outside Memos
Open the Markdown in any text editor.
Archival Storage
Keep a finished period of notes as a single file.
Technical details
The implementation stays inspectable.
Memos Export Format ZIP from Settings or the ExportMemos API
Import the same ZIP into another Memos instance
The ZIP is not encrypted; store it accordingly
Instance backups use the database and attachment storage, not this export
Start here
Start with one memo.
Install Memos on a server you choose, then explore the rest of the features.