Export and portability
Your notes are markdown files. Take all of them, any time, from Settings → Data.
Banter is markdown-native: every note has a plain-text form that any editor, tool, or AI can read. Portability isn’t a feature bolted on for exits — it’s how the product stores your work.
Export everything
Settings → Data → Export downloads a ZIP of your whole workspace:
- Your folder structure, as actual folders
- Every note as a markdown file
- Transcripts of your recordings, as markdown files alongside the notes they belong to
- Your images
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 everything 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
Getting your data out includes getting it gone. Deleting a recording removes the audio itself from storage, not just the link to it — see Privacy and recording.