Export your library

Everything in Sensefold is Markdown, and it leaves with you: the whole library as a ZIP from the web app, or one item at a time from the extension and iOS. Neither spends credits.

Export the whole library

1. Open app.sensefold.app → Settings → General → Export.
2. Choose whether to include AI summaries and saved original files (PDFs, Office documents, images you uploaded).
3. Confirm. The archive is built in the background; the card shows progress and a Download button when it is ready. The archive stays available for 24 hours.

The export reflects your library as it is: items in the recycle bin are not included, and nothing is re-fetched from the original sources.

What is in the ZIP

sensefold-export-YYYY-MM-DD/
  index.md            counts: items, highlights, original files
  manifest.json       machine-readable inventory of every file
  items/
    index.md          one line per item
    YYYY-MM-DD--<title>--<uuid>.md
    ...
  originals/          only when you include original files

Each item is one Markdown file with YAML front matter:

---
okf_version: "0.4"
type: Document          # or Note for your own notes
title: ...
description: ...        # the AI summary, if you included summaries
tags: [...]
sources:
  - url: https://...    # where it was captured from
  - path: originals/... # the saved original, with filename, mime_type, size_bytes, sha256
generated:
  by: process:sensefold-library-export
  at: 2026-09-03T...
sensefold:
  item_id: <uuid>
  item_kind: ...
  source_type: ...
  status: ...
  created_at: ...
  updated_at: ...
  version: 12
  body_source: authored   # authored | enriched | raw
---

The body is your own text for notes and the extracted text for captures. After the body, the file carries your annotations: a ## Comment section if you left a page comment, then each highlight with its quote (or video timestamp) and note — see Comments and highlights.

Copy a single item as Markdown

• Chrome extension — every capture and note in the side panel has a copy action.
• iPhone & iPad — Copy as Markdown in the item menu.
• The web app has no per-item copy action; use the export above.

Paste the result into Obsidian, Notion, a plain editor, or an AI prompt.

Does export cost credits?

No. Export, copy, and every MCP read are free; only AI processing of new captures spends credits — see Credits and plans.