Export Google Keep to Markdown
Google Takeout gives you JSON and HTML, neither of which any notes app reads well. KeepExport converts it to plain Markdown: one .md per note, YAML frontmatter with title, dates and tags, task lists for checklists, and relative image links.
Drop your Google Takeout zip here
or the unzipped Takeout/Keep folder, or its .json files. Nothing is uploaded — the conversion runs in this tab.
Import into Markdown
You get: A .zip of .md files with an attachments/ folder.
- Download and unzip.
- Open the folder in any Markdown editor, or import the .md files into Bear, iA Writer, UpNote, Zettlr or a static-site generator.
- Images are referenced as attachments/<file>.
What carries over
- Title and text, with bold, italic and strikethrough
- Checklists with their checked state
- Labels
- Created and edited dates
- Archived notes (kept in an archived folder or marked)
- Images and audio in attachments/
- Web links Keep saved under a note
Good to know
- Keep's H1/H2 headings (added 2024) become Markdown headings; colours are recorded in the frontmatter only.
Getting the export from Google
Open Google Takeout, deselect everything, select Keep, and create a zip export. Google emails a download link; the zip contains a Takeout/Keep folder. Drop that zip above. Full walkthrough: how to export Google Keep.
Questions
- What is in the frontmatter?
- title, created, updated, tags (from labels), source, and colour/pinned/archived when set.
- Can I skip the frontmatter?
- Pick the Notion target — it writes the title as a heading and no frontmatter.