Markdown Export for Notion and OneNote

Notes Wrangler keeps notes where they belong, but no tool should hold them hostage. The Connectors block in the Side Panel exports every live note as one Markdown file, shaped for direct import into Notion or OneNote. Each note becomes a heading with its domain and day stamped underneath, separated by clean breaks.

The format is deliberately conservative. Standard headings, quotes and breaks, with no frontmatter, no HTML and no tables. That restraint is what makes the file import cleanly, because every importer handles the basics and each one chokes on something exotic. What Notion rejects as prose, and what OneNote cannot parse at all, never leaves the extension in the first place.

Export, import and sync are paid and yearly, while local notes are free and unlimited. The buttons stay visible when locked and explain themselves on hover, so the path is never a mystery.

Into Notion

Notion accepts Markdown three ways, and they are not equal. Pasting works for snippets but garbles tables and code on the way in. The slash command behaves the same. File import through Settings, then Import, then Text and Markdown is the reliable route, with a dedicated importer that preserves structure.

1. In the Side Panel, open the Connectors block and press Export Markdown to download the file.
2. In Notion, open Settings, choose Import, then Text and Markdown, and upload the file.
3. Confirm. Each note heading becomes its own block structure with the domain line preserved, and the horizontal breaks split the export into digestible pieces.

Because the file carries no frontmatter, nothing renders as stray prose at the top. Frontmatter is the classic import spoiler, arriving as a divider followed by orphaned lines, and ours simply has none. For the sync model that keeps the local copy ahead of any export, read how the one-key sync works.

Into OneNote

OneNote has no native Markdown support at all, not for import, rendering or detection, and that remains true across every version. Pasting Markdown source pastes plain text, so the reliable route converts to formatted rich text first and pastes that instead.

1. Download the file the same way, from the Connectors block or from settings.
2. Open it in any Markdown reader, a free online converter, or Word, and copy the rendered result rather than the source.
3. Paste the rendered content into a OneNote page. Headings, quotes and breaks arrive formatted, and the domain stamps stay attached to their notes.

The conservative format pays off here too. Tables, equations and diagrams are where Markdown to OneNote conversions fall apart, and the export contains none of them, so the rendered copy survives intact. The reasons the notes themselves stay per-site are covered in why notes should stay with the site.

Markdown or JSON

Settings offers both exports for different jobs. Markdown is for reading and for moving into other apps. JSON carries the full structured records, versions and timestamps included, which makes it the format for backups and for tooling. Trashed notes are excluded from both, since an export should reflect what you keep.

An export format is a promise about the future. Plain text keeps it.

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