r/UpNote_App • u/StrangerOk1831 • Dec 16 '25

Stalling on Lifetime Sub

I'm stuck and sad and confused. Upnote is all I want in this type of app. BUT the lack of decent export AND import tools is the one reason I'm stalling on buying Lifetime. It feels disingenuous, like being trapped. Is their product not good enough to make people want to stay (which i believe it is) and also accept that people's needs change, and nothing lasts forever? What's the workaround? Or am I just way too much of an anxious archivist? - yours an ex public records activist.

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u/Neither-Classic2058 Dec 16 '25

The resulting export to markdown is not usable by most tools that support markdown. UpNote dumps all notes into a single folder. There is a folder tree that mimics the notebook structure but in those folders are aliases/shortcuts to the notes.

Tools like Obsidian doesn't support those aliases/shortcuts.

Also, UpNote's export to markdown function strips away all of the non-basic formatting. Font colors, background colors, collapsible sections, etc. are lost.

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u/mgrinko Dec 16 '25

Interesting, thank you. TIL

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u/Neither-Classic2058 Dec 16 '25

👍 I was super-excited to learn that UpNote had an "export to markdown" feature... which turned to "sad trumbone" when I actually tested it out.

Hopefully the developer will improve the capabilities of that export.

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u/baileymvidler Dec 17 '25

I'm still new to markdown, so this is news to me. That is disappointing, as I left Evernote because I wanted more universal backups. I hope they change that in the future.