Export Google Keep to Obsidian
Drop the zip Google Takeout gave you and get a folder of Markdown notes you can copy straight into your vault: one .md per note, labels as tags in the frontmatter, checklists as task lists, and every image linked with ![[wikilinks]].
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 Obsidian
You get: A .zip with one .md file per note, an attachments/ folder, and archived/ for archived notes.
- Download the zip and unzip it.
- Copy the folder into your vault (or open it as a new vault with “Open folder as vault”).
- Labels appear as tags; search tag:#label to find them. Images are in attachments/ and resolve by name.
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 as attachments (![[wikilinks]])
- Colour and pinned state in the frontmatter
- Web links Keep saved under a note
Good to know
- Obsidian also ships an official Importer plugin for Keep. Use KeepExport if you want frontmatter with tags, an optional folder per label, or a plain Markdown copy you can reuse elsewhere.
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
- Do labels become tags?
- Yes. Each label becomes a tag in the note's YAML frontmatter (spaces turn into hyphens), so Obsidian's tag pane and search pick them up.
- What happens to checklists?
- They become Markdown task lists (- [ ] / - [x]) with the checked state preserved, so the Tasks plugin can read them.
- Can I get a folder per label?
- Yes, tick “Folder per label” before downloading. Notes with several labels go into the first label's folder.