How to export all your Google Keep notes
Google Keep has no “export all” button. The bulk export is Google Takeout, which gives you a zip of every note with its images. Here is the whole flow, and what to do with the zip afterwards.
1. Create the export in Google Takeout
- Open takeout.google.com and sign in with the account that owns the notes.
- Click Deselect all, scroll to Keep, and tick it. (Keep has no format options; it always exports JSON + HTML + attachments.)
- Click Next step. Choose “Send download link via email”, “Export once”, file type .zip, and a size (2 GB is fine; larger exports are split into several zips).
- Click Create export. When the email arrives, download the zip.
2. What is inside
The zip has a Takeout/Keep/ folder with, for every note, a .json file (structured data) and a .html file (readable copy), plus the images and audio the notes contained and a Labels.txt. Each JSON note records the title, text (with formatting as HTML), checklist items and their state, labels, colour, created and edited timestamps, whether it was archived, pinned or in the trash, attachment file names, and any web links Keep saved under the note.
3. Convert it to the format you need
Drop the zip on KeepExport — the conversion runs in your browser, nothing is uploaded — and pick a destination:
- Keep → Obsidian: A .zip with one .md file per note, an attachments/ folder, and archived/ for archived notes.
- Keep → Notion: A .zip of .md files, one page per note.
- Keep → Apple Notes: One .enex file with all notes and images embedded.
- Keep → Evernote: One .enex file.
- Keep → Markdown: A .zip of .md files with an attachments/ folder.
- Keep → Joplin: A .zip of .md files with front matter and an attachments/ folder.
- Keep → Logseq: A .zip with pages/ and assets/ folders.
- Keep → OneNote: One .docx file, one note per page.
- Keep → Google Docs: One .docx file.
- Keep → NotebookLM: One .md file, or a .zip of parts for very large exports.
- Keep → CSV / Excel / Sheets: A .zip with notes.csv and checklist_items.csv.
- Keep → PDF: A PDF via Print → Save as PDF, or a self-contained HTML archive you can print later.
- Keep → Samsung Notes: A PDF via Print → Save as PDF, or a .docx from the Word target.
- Keep → Bear: A .zip of .md files with an attachments/ folder (or an .enex from the Evernote target).
4. Check the result before deleting anything
Open a few notes in the new app, including one with a checklist and one with a photo. Keep the Takeout zip as a backup; it is the only complete copy of your notes outside Google.
Questions
- Can I export Keep without Takeout?
- Only one note at a time: the note menu offers “Copy to Google Docs”, and the web app can print a single note. Takeout is the only bulk export Google provides.
- How long does Takeout take?
- A Keep-only export usually arrives within minutes; Google says it can take hours or days for very large accounts. You get an email with the download link.
- Why are there .html and .json files for each note?
- The .html is a human-readable copy; the .json has the structured data (checklist state, labels, colour, timestamps, attachment names). Converters use the .json.
- Are archived and trashed notes included?
- Yes. Archived notes have isArchived set and trashed notes isTrashed. KeepExport includes archived notes by default and leaves trash out unless you tick it.
- Do reminders come along?
- No. Keep reminders now live in Google Tasks and are not part of the Keep export.