Step by step, per tool. Every menu path below was read off the vendor’s own help page — and where they don’t document something, this page says so rather than guessing.
First, the short version
Notivo reads exactly two file types: .md and .txt. Everything else comes in by copy and paste, which works from every app, on every plan, on every operating system — including the ones with no export at all.
So there are only ever two answers below: download a file and drag it in, or select all, copy, paste. If a tool only gives you a .zip, .docx, .enex or .csv, the card says what to do about it.
On macOS 26 only, there is also File → Export as → Markdown. On macOS 15 and earlier that menu offers PDF and nothing else — so if you cannot find Markdown, this is why.
Apple documents exporting one note at a time. There is no documented "export everything".
On iPhone, copy and paste is the reliable path on every iOS version.
Evernote exports as .enex, which Notivo does not read — so copy and paste is the working path.
If you already have an .enex file and many notes, importing it into Apple Notes first and copying from there is one way round; we have not tested that route.
Google Keep
Free · No admin · Via Google Takeout
Open Google Takeout and sign in.
Uncheck every product except Keep.
Click Next step.
Choose Send download link via email.
Choose Zip files and One-time archive.
Click Create export and wait for the email.
Download and unzip the archive, then open the Keep folder.
Drag any .txt files in, or open a note, copy the text and paste it.
You end up with: A folder of notes plus attachments.
This is not instant. Google says anywhere from a few minutes to a few days.
The download link expires after about 7 days and allows 5 downloads.
Google does not document which file extension the notes use, so check after unzipping: .txt drags straight in, anything else needs copy and paste.
Notebook export exists only in OneNote for the web, only for a personal OneDrive account, and produces a OneNote-only file Notivo cannot read.
On a work or school account there is no notebook export at all — copy and paste is the path.
Task trackers: usually not worth importing
Jira, Todoist, Trello, Asana and the rest all export cleanly. We still would not import them wholesale, and it is worth saying why rather than quietly leaving them off the list.
A ticket is a unit of work. A task is a thing to do. Neither is an observation about a person, and four hundred of them buried under one teammate’s name will drown the handful of notes you actually sat down and wrote. The value of a per-person timeline is that everything on it was worth writing.
If a particular thread is worth keeping — a retro, a hard conversation in comments — copy that one and paste it.
Todoist. Exports a project as CSV. Notivo does not read .csv; copy the task list instead.
Trello. JSON on every plan, CSV on Premium only. Neither imports; copy a card’s text if it is worth keeping.
Asana. CSV and JSON. Same story — copy what matters.
Jira. CSV export from a filter. A ticket is work, not an observation about a person.
Linear / Monday / Any.do. CSV or PDF, and Monday lets an Enterprise admin disable export entirely.
Slack and Teams
Exporting a Slack workspace needs a Workspace Owner or Admin, and on the free plan it covers public channels only — not the DMs where a manager’s real material lives. Teams is the same shape: a personal account can export, a work or school account needs an administrator.
There is a second reason to leave them alone, and it matters more. A chat export is somebody else’s words, in bulk, with no marker on the private parts. Nobody types #bb into Slack. If a conversation is worth keeping, copy that conversation, and mark it yourself.
Got your text? Here is what happens next.
Notivo reads it in your browser, shows you every note it would create and every name it found, and writes nothing until you press Import.
