Export your workspace

The export follows a simple rule: you get back everything you put in. Notes and cards come out as plain markdown, saved links come out as a spreadsheet of their source URLs, uploads come out as the original files. Nothing is locked in a proprietary format.

How to export

1. 01

   Open Settings → Workspace

   Scroll to Export workspace at the bottom of the panel.

2. 02

   Click Export workspace

   Eden starts building the zip and shows live progress. You don't need to wait around — close the window and we'll email you a download link when it's ready.

3. 03

   Download the zip

   A Download zip link appears in Settings when the export finishes, and the same link arrives by email. Download links work for 7 days.

What's in the zip

• documents/ — every document as its own markdown file, with the title, dates, and tags in frontmatter. They open cleanly in Obsidian, Notion, or any text editor.
• cards.md — all your cards combined into one markdown file, in the order you captured them.
• links.csv — every link and social post you've saved, as a spreadsheet with the title, source URL, platform, date saved, and tags. Opens in Excel, Numbers, or Google Sheets.
• highlights/ — your highlights, one markdown file per book or source, with your notes attached.
• files/ — the original files you uploaded: images, PDFs, audio, video, EPUBs, and documents, under their original names.
• export-info.txt — a summary of what was exported and anything that was skipped.

What's not included

The export includes what you brought into Eden, not what Eden computed from it:

• Transcripts, Reader views, and AI descriptions of saved links and social posts. For those items you get the source URL — the original is always one click away.
• Chats with Eve.
• Board layouts. The items on your boards are all in the export; the visual arrangement isn't.

Large workspaces

Big exports keep building in the background — you can close Eden entirely and the email link will still arrive. Individual files over 1 GB are skipped to keep the zip manageable; anything skipped is listed in export-info.txt so nothing disappears silently.

Exporting before you cancel

You don't need to export before canceling — your boards and items stay in your account and remain accessible on the free plan. But if you want a local copy of everything, running an export takes a minute and the download link works for 7 days regardless of your plan.