Using Ounie
Exporting
Your knowledge is yours. Download a whole brain as an Obsidian vault, a plain Markdown zip, or a structured JSON backup — no lock-in, a real backup, and a clean way out.
How it works#
From a brain’s Settings, open Export this brain, choose a format, and Ounie builds a zip in the background. When it’s ready you get a Download button. Export never changes your brain — it only reads it.
Formats#
- Obsidian vault — one Markdown file per page with
[[wikilinks]]and front-matter Properties. Open the folder in Obsidian and the graph rebuilds itself from the links. This is the round-trip twin of importing. - Markdown — the same files without the Obsidian extras, for any Markdown tool.
- JSON — a structured backup: every page (text + links), the explicit knowledge graph, and source metadata.
Options#
Toggle Include original files to bundle your uploaded files (PDFs, images, and so on) under _attachments/, linked from their pages — this adds size. Folder by kind groups notes, sources, concepts, and entities into folders.
Owner-only & private#
Because an export reads the whole brain, including your raw uploads, only the brain’s owner can run it. The download is a private, time-limited link — to let other people copy a public brain, use forking instead, which copies the wiki without shipping your original files.
Limits#
- Download links expire after 24 hours. After that the file is deleted automatically — just run the export again to get a fresh link.
- A few exports per day, scaling with your plan (Free 3, Pro 20, Team 50 per day).
- A maximum archive size, also by plan (Free 200 MB, Pro 2 GB, Team 10 GB). If an export with original files would exceed it, turn that option off and export the wiki on its own.