Export and portability

Banter gives your notes a Markdown form that other editors, tools, and AI clients can read. Download an archive from Settings, or ask a connected AI to prepare a selective handover.

Export notes, transcripts, and images

Settings → Data → Export downloads a ZIP containing:

• Your folder structure, as actual folders
• Notes outside Trash as markdown files
• Available transcripts of recordings referenced in those notes, as markdown files alongside them
• Your images

This is a notes export, not a complete account backup. It does not include raw recording audio, PDF or deck files, chats, instructions, briefs, People records, connected calendar or email data, or items in Trash.

Links between notes are rewritten to work inside the export, so the files remain a usable, browsable archive — not a database dump.

What markdown-native means day to day

• Notes you export open in anything — Obsidian, VS Code, another notes app, or a plain text editor in 2035.
• AI tools work with your notes in their native format; nothing needs converting.
• Importing works the same way in reverse: markdown in, markdown out.

The other export path: your AI

A connected agent can read your workspace content too — which makes selective export a prompt:

Read everything in /Work/Acme in Banter and compile a handover document for the new account owner.

That’s often more useful than a raw file dump: the export is shaped on the way out.

Deleting is also portability

Removing a recording from a note is subject to reference checks, a recovery period, and separate rules for unfinished uploads. See Privacy and recording for when the audio is erased and what account deletion removes.