Trilium can import notes from Google Keep, preserving their structure
and formatting.
Import process
Google Keep has no native export process, but Google Takeout allows you
to download a ZIP of all the notes.
The first step is to download your Google Keep information:
- Navigate to takeout.google.com.
- In the Create a new export section, press Deselect all.
- In the list of data to export, check Keep.
- Scroll all the way down and choose Next step.
- In Choose file type, frequency & destination make sure the
following options are set:
- Transfer to is set to Send download link via email.
- Frequency is set to Export once.
- File type is set to .zip.
- File size can remain set to 2 GB.
- Press Create export and wait for the export to finish.
Then in Trilium Notes:
- In the Note Tree,
right click and select Import into note.
- In the Import from section, select Google Keep.
- Upload the ZIP obtained in the previous step.
Supported features
- Basic formatting (bold, italic, underline)
- Note color
- Note titles are maintained, if present.
- In Google Keep it's common for notes not to have a title, case in which
the date and time of the note are used as a title.
- To-do lists
- Images and
Attachments.
- Creation and modification dates are preserved.
Limitations
Currently the following information is not imported:
- Labels are disregarded.
- Pinned, archived or trashed state is not preserved, all notes are treated
the same.
Reporting issues
When importing your notes from Google Keep, you might encounter some issues
with how the notes are imported, or there might be some missing information.
In this case, consider reporting it.
When reporting such an issue make sure to provide the following information:
- A sample of the note is required to better understand what happened.
- Because Google Keep has no per-note export, extract the Google Takeout
ZIP and copy the files corresponding to the problematic note (
.html,
.jsonand any attachments if you are able to identify them).
- A screenshot with how it originally looked like before the import and
how it looks after the import.