The reason people stay in note apps they dislike is not loyalty. It is that years of writing feel unmovable, and every migration they have attempted arrived as a flat pile of Markdown with the structure stripped out.
Notez imports from Notion (.zip) and Evernote (.enex), and preserves more than most migrations do. Since v0.22.0, an Obsidian vault or any folder of Markdown files (.zip) imports too.
What survives the move
The two exports contain different things, so what carries over depends on where you are coming from:
Notion | Evernote | |
|---|---|---|
Content and formatting | Yes | Yes |
Attachments | Yes | Yes |
Page hierarchy → sub-notes | Yes | No |
Tags | No | Yes |
Links between notes | Yes | No |
Original creation date | No | Yes |
Notion exports carry structure — nested pages become nested notes, and links between pages are resolved in a second pass, after every note has an ID, so they point at the right notes instead of dead URLs. Evernote exports carry metadata — your tags and original creation dates come across intact.
Formatting is normalized into the Notez editor format in both cases: headings, lists, checklists, code blocks, tables, and quotes all carry over, and attachments are uploaded and re-referenced from the notes that used them.
One thing neither preserves: the last-modified date is set to the time of import.
How to do it
From Notion: open the workspace menu → Settings → Export content → Export all workspace content, format Markdown & CSV, and include subpages. Notion emails you a .zip.
From Evernote: select the notebook or notes → right-click → Export notes → .enex.
Then in Notez: More → Import & export, pick your source, upload the file, and close the tab if you like. Import runs as a background job. If you come back later, a running import resumes on screen automatically.
You will see it move through: Reading your export…, Estimating size…, Importing notes…, then Import complete.
Limits
Limit | Value |
|---|---|
Max upload size | 200 MB |
Max entries in archive | 10,000 |
Max uncompressed size | 1 GB |
Max size per entry | 100 MB |
Max notes per import | 50,000 |
Imports also count against your plan's storage. If an import would exceed it, Notez stops and reports Import exceeded your storage limit before writing anything rather than importing half your archive and leaving you to work out what is missing. Free is 1 GB, Pro 10 GB, Ultra 50 GB. Notes count against the plan's note limit too: 1,000 per workspace on Free, 10,000 on Pro, 50,000 on Ultra. Nothing checks that limit before the import starts, so the notes past it fail one at a time and land in the failed count.
Large archives are best split into a few smaller exports.
If it goes wrong
Two safety nets:
Retry. If an import finishes with errors, you get Import finished with some errors and a per-note breakdown of imported, failed, and skipped counts. Retrying re-runs the job, and notes that already landed are recognized rather than duplicated.
Undo. You can undo a completed import: the job moves to Import undone and the notes it created go to the Bin. That is what makes it safe to try an import on your real workspace — run it, look at how it landed, and back it out if the shape is wrong. No throwaway account required.
Two caveats worth knowing: attachments uploaded during the import are not removed by undo, and tags it created stay in your workspace. Clean those up by hand if you want to start completely fresh.
Every import is listed in a paginated history with its counts, so you always know what a given run did.
After the import
Imported notes carry an Import badge, so you can filter for exactly what came in and separate it from what you write afterward.
A few things to expect. Notez has no folders — Notion's page hierarchy arrives as note nesting, which is the closest equivalent and generally reads better. Notion databases come across as notes with their hierarchy intact, but database columns do not map automatically onto Notez custom properties; you can define those and fill them in, including by asking AI chat to do it in bulk.
Embeddings are generated for imported notes too, so semantic search and Similar Notes start working across your back catalogue — which is often the first time an old archive becomes genuinely searchable. On a big import that uses a real share of a month's embedding allowance, so keep an eye on the meter if you are on the free plan.
The honest scope
Notion and Evernote have their own importers, and since v0.22.0 an Obsidian vault or any folder of Markdown files imports too. There is no Apple Notes importer.
You can leave just as easily: since v0.22.0, More → Import & export → Export downloads a whole workspace as Markdown files that open in Obsidian. See Export your workspace.
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