Exporting Notes from Workflowy
2026-04-04
Workflowy is great for organizing thoughts, but getting your data out in a useful format isn't straightforward. In fact, it's broken, whether by neglect or purposeful vendor lock-in, in that any assets must be exported separate from text of your notes, and come completely disorganized. I wrote a script that exports Workflowy notes into clean, structured plain text files.
The script walks the Workflowy JSON export and writes each node as a separate file, preserving the hierarchy as a directory structure. It's simple and does what you'd expect.
Grab it here: workflowy export gist