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14 min readUpdated 2026-11-01

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It'd be a shame to keep the piece you worked so hard on all to yourself! Let me show you how to wrap it up neatly to share with friends, or print it out beautifully to keep. 🎁

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How Should You Export? (Formats) 💌

PDF: The cleanest, most versatile option! Perfect for printing or sharing with others.
DOCX: Export as a Word (.docx) document. Handy for pasting into company templates or co-editing with others. Headings, bold/italic, strikethrough and super/subscript carry over, highlights keep their color, and math becomes a real Word equation object — double-click it to open Word's equation editor (only what we cannot convert stays as the original text). Footnotes land at the foot of the page, page numbers appear at the bottom center as "- 1 -", and diagrams (Mermaid, charts) go in as pictures. HTML tags mixed into the text (like <span>) keep only their text.
HWPX: Export as a Hangul (Hancom Office) document. Headings, bold/italic and super/subscript carry over, lists become Hangul's real bullets and paragraph numbering (●·○·■, and 1. → 가. → 1) as they nest; a list that starts again after other text restarts at 1), page numbers appear at the bottom center as "- 1 -", and tables keep their alignment (:---), content-sized columns and a shaded header row (plus <br> line breaks and images inside a cell). Images come through as real pictures whether they sit on their own line, mid-paragraph or inside a table — inline drawings (SVG) included. Horizontal rules (---, ***) become real Hangul lines. Math becomes a real Hangul equation you can reopen in Hangul's equation editor (only what we cannot convert, such as matrices, stays as the original text). Footnotes land at the foot of the page, and charts, diagrams and emoji go in as pictures (Hangul has no emoji font). Links, strikethrough, highlights and HTML tags mixed into the text keep only their text. Opens in Hangul 2020 or later.
EPUB: Turns your note into an e-book (.epub) you can read on any e-reader. If you pick several notes, they always become one book (a chapter per note). → E-book & Web Novel Viewer
HTML: Great for posting on the web or keeping the pretty styling intact! (It comes with ObsiKO's own styling and safe security settings baked right in.)
ZIP (.md): Zips up your original Markdown files as-is — great for backing up or moving everything at once.
Wiki: Converts your note into wiki markup (Namu Wiki, MediaWiki, SCP). More on this just below! 📚
Print: When you want actual paper in your hands! (No printer? You can always choose 'Save as PDF' in the system print dialog — you knew that, right? 😉)

Export Options ⚙️

Export rendered: Turn it on to export the note looking just like its styled appearance; turn it off to export the raw Markdown text instead (only for PDF, HTML, EPUB and Print — Word and Hangul always carry the formatting).
Include title: Choose whether to put the note's title at the top of the document.
Merge into one file: When exporting multiple notes as PDF, HTML, Word or Hangul, you can combine them into a single file (printing is always merged). Each note starts on a new page, and footnote numbering runs through the whole document.

Bulk Export: Better Together 📚

Open the export window and the file you currently have open is already checked by default!
The file list shows only the files in the folder currently selected in the sidebar (if no folder is selected, it shows the whole vault). That makes it easy to export just the bundle you want, even if you have a mountain of files!
Want to export a whole folder? Right-click the folder in the file tree ▸ Export folder… — the window opens with every note in that folder (subfolders included) already checked.
Type a file or folder name in the search box above the list and suggestions pop up — pick a folder to narrow the list to it, or pick a file to check it right away. The sort menu next to it offers Folder & name / Folder & name (Z–A) / File name / Recently edited / Recently created, and checked files rise to the top of the list so you can see what you picked without scrolling.
Just check the boxes next to any other files in the list, and you can export them all together at once.
Print a bundle of files together and don't worry — every time the file changes, it neatly breaks onto a new page automatically.
Numbers in names are sorted as numbers — bundle Episode 1 through Episode 25 into one file or an EPUB and they go in as Episode 1, Episode 2, … Episode 10, in that order (sorted letter by letter, Episode 10 would slip in before Episode 2).

🗺️ Pick a mind map (.canvas) and the format switches to ZIP. A canvas is a drawing board, not prose, so it can't be rendered to PDF or HTML. The moment one is selected the format flips to ZIP (originals) and the other buttons lock. Want just the documents as PDF? Hit the Exclude canvas button above the list! (To export a mind map as a picture or PDF, use the export inside the mind map screen — if you've made pages, PDF gives one A4 sheet per page → Mind Map)

Paste Straight Into a Wiki — Wiki Markup Export 📚

Writing an article on Namu Wiki, posting your notes to Wikipedia or a company wiki, submitting to the SCP Foundation wiki — that tedious job of rewriting every bit of syntax by hand is now done for you.

Pick the Wiki format in the export window,
and three choices appear right below: Namu Wiki · MediaWiki · SCP (Wikidot). Pick one,
then hit [Copy wiki markup] — done! Paste it straight into the wiki's editor. 📋

The syntax you picked is remembered for next time.
[Save file] saves it with the syntax name attached, like note-name.namu.txt.
If you selected several notes, the button becomes [Save as ZIP]. A wiki takes one page at a time, so they're kept as separate files rather than merged (folder structure included).

What Gets Converted? ✨

Headings, bold, italic, strikethrough, lists, quotes, tables, code blocks, links, footnotes and math are all turned into each wiki's own syntax. Since every wiki has its own rules, these are handled for you too:

On MediaWiki, # means a numbered list rather than a heading, so Markdown # headings are stepped down to == Heading == (the page name itself is the top-level title).
Namu Wiki needs a space before the * in lists, and sections usually start at ==. All those little rules are matched for you.
On SCP (Wikidot), internal links take three brackets ([[[Page|label]]]) and headings use +.
If your text happens to contain wiki symbols, they're neutralised so the page doesn't break.

Nothing Disappears Quietly 🙋

So you never paste something in and think "wait, where did that go?", you're told what happened right after copying. (For example: Copied · 2 image(s) need uploading · highlight colour dropped)

Images and attachments: a wiki needs the file uploaded to that wiki, so the file name is placed for you and you're told how many you need to upload.
ObsiKO-only blocks like charts and mind maps: wikis don't have these, so the source is kept as-is (nothing vanishes).
Frontmatter (properties): the values are left out and you're only told which properties were dropped — private notes shouldn't ride along into public wiki source.
Block IDs: not deleted, but turned into that wiki's anchor (bookmark).
When several notes come back as a ZIP, _obsiko-wiki-report.txt is included with the notes listed one by one.

💡 Every wiki is configured a little differently (math, for instance, only shows up if the MediaWiki Math extension is enabled). It's worth checking the preview once after pasting.

Paste Straight Into Word or Email — Copy with Formatting 📋

When you paste your ObsiKO writing into Word, Google Docs, or an email, a plain copy brings along symbols like # and **. Use Copy with formatting instead.
Right-click in the text (long-press on phones and tablets) ▸ in the icon row at the top, tap Rich copy, right next to Copy. You can also find "Copy with formatting" in the command palette.
If you've selected text, only that part is copied; with nothing selected, the whole note is copied.
When you paste, heading sizes, bold, lists, tables (with borders), and images come through intact. Apps that only take plain text (like messengers) get clean text without markdown symbols.
Regular Copy (⌘C) still copies the original markdown — that's the one to use when moving notes to another notes app.

💡 Math comes through as source text, like $E=mc^2$ . If you need editable equations, use Export as .hwpx (native Hangul equations) or Export as Word .docx (Word equations).

Slides, Snapped Just as They Are! 📸

Turned a document into a presentation? Then exporting it as PDF or HTML preserves that gorgeous slide look exactly as-is! → For presentation prep, see Making Presentations

Diagrams and Charts, Rendered as Images Too! 📊

Mermaid diagrams and chart data charts (bar, line, pie, radar, heatmap, Venn, fishbone, and 20+ more types) that you put in your document also get exported as actual images (SVG) rather than raw code, both in PDF and HTML. Word and Hangul exports and Copy with formatting also put them in as pictures (PNG) instead of code.
The colors follow whatever theme you're using at the moment of export, and the images are embedded whole inside the document with no external connections needed — so it looks the same wherever you open it. → For how to make them, see Advanced Markdown

The Pictures in Your Notes Come Along Too 🖼️

Images you put in a note (![](assets/photo.png) or ![[photo.png]]) show up as they are in PDF, HTML and print. Even when you combine several notes into one file, each note finds its own pictures.
In HTML, the pictures are packed right inside the file, so they still show when you open it on another computer or send it by email.
A picture size you wrote, like ![[photo.png|300]], is kept too.
Very large photos, like originals straight from a phone, are scaled down to a size that's still plenty for printing — so the file doesn't balloon.
If a picture can't be found, is too large, or is in a format that can't be included (like iPhone HEIC photos), its file name is left in its place, and when the export finishes you're told how many were left out.

Instead of sending a file, you hand over a single link. Whoever receives it reads it right in a browser — no app to install, no account to create.

Where: the share button on the tab bar, or the command palette (⌘P) ▸ Share to the web. You can publish a note (.md), a mind map (.canvas) or a data table (.base).
You connect a GitHub account once (no account? You can create one for free in the approval window). The text goes into a secret Gist in your own GitHub, and the viewer on obsiko.com fetches and draws it — nothing is stored on an ObsiKO server.
It looks exactly as it does in the app — theme colors, callout boxes, highlights, checkboxes, tables, YouTube and map cards. Images are embedded in the document, so there is nothing else to upload.
Linked notes can come along: notes that the [[wikilinks]] in the body point to can be published together (flip between them from the table of contents on the left).
Edited since? Press “Publish again to the same address” — the same link updates (and you are told when the content has changed since you shared it).
To stop, press “Stop sharing” — it is removed from the web and your original note stays untouched (copies someone already took cannot be recalled).
Everything you published is listed in Settings ▸ Web sharing, where you can open or delete each one. It works in the browser version too.

⚠️ Anyone with the link can read it. It is not indexed by search engines (secret Gist · noindex), but treat the address itself as the key. Don't publish anything you couldn't show a stranger.

💡 If what you actually want is to keep writing in the same vault across devices, that is sync, not sharing. → Settings & Themes

Need a Blank Planner? — Planner Pages 📅

Instead of exporting a note, this makes blank planner pages with the dates already filled in as a PDF. Import it into a note-taking app like Goodnotes and write by hand, print it and use it like a paper diary, or put it on an ObsiKO mindmap and write right there.

Where: Command palette (⌘P) ▸ Create planner pages · "Planner Pages →" at the bottom of the Export window · the 📁 New… menu (the New Folder button) at the top of the sidebar ▸ Make planner pages… (saved in the folder selected in the file tree — opened from here, 'Use it in ObsiKO' is already picked) · the planner button in the Calendar panel header (starts from the month you're looking at).
What's inside: by default a cover (with one line of your own) · a year calendar · monthly pages · weekly pages (a box for each day + a memo) · notes. Holidays follow the holiday country in Settings and are marked in red; observances that aren't days off appear in light gray.
It all fits on one screen: pick what it's for and a finished sample (the pages exactly as they'll be made) appears right below; choose Week starts on (Sunday · Monday) · color (Mono · ObsiKO blue · Red) · a line for the cover (leave it empty for just the year), then [Create]. The total page count is always shown next to the button. Your last choices are remembered on this device.
Where will you use it? — pick one of three.
- In a note-taking app (iPad landscape): tap a tab on the right (Year · months · Notes) or a date to jump to that page — a date takes you to that day (if you added day pages) or its week, and a week's title takes you to its month.
- Print on paper (A4 portrait): no tabs and 12 mm margins all around, so nothing gets cut off at the edges. Print only the pages you need.
- Use it in ObsiKO: saves the PDF in a vault folder together with a mindmap holding one PDF card for it, and opens the mindmap. Flip pages with ‹ › on the card, tap a date or tab to jump, and write by hand on each page. → 11 Mind Map
More options (you don't have to open them — the defaults are ready to go):
- Period: the start month (‹ ›) and how many months (1 · 3 · 6 · 12). It can cross a year (e.g. Dec 2026 – Nov 2027). It starts in January of next year if you open it in October–December, otherwise January of this year.
- Pages to include: turn the cover · year · month · week · day · notes pages on or off, and choose how many note pages. A day page has a timeline on the left (6 AM to midnight) and blank space on the right. Each day page is titled with Settings ▸ Today's note ▸ Today's note title format, so when you run text recognition (OCR) on a photo of a handwritten page, its first line becomes that day's note title.
- Week layout: boxes (one box per day) or a vertical timeline (a column for each day × 6 AM to midnight — in the style of the Jibun Techo or Hobonichi Weeks).
- Background: a light grid or dots (month, week, day and note pages alike).
- Add my schedule (off at first): prints the date, time and title of your tasks, subscribed calendars and countdowns (never their contents). Tasks inside a sealed "letter to my future self" are left out. Leave it off for planners you share or sell.
- Save as images (PNG): one image per page, bundled into one zip (up to 120 pages — day pages go over that, so shorten the period). Tablet pages are rendered at 2× screen size, print pages at 300 dpi.
Fonts: the first time, print fonts (about 2.2 MB) are downloaded and kept on your device. If your cover line or schedule uses kanji or other scripts, a little more is downloaded for those characters. Emoji aren't in the planner fonts, so they're left out — you'll see which characters before you create.
Saving: the desktop app shows a save dialog; iPhone, iPad, and Android open the share sheet (straight to Goodnotes, Files, or Print); the web version downloads the file. "Use it in ObsiKO" saves straight into the vault folder.

💡 You can freely print, share, or sell the pages you make. The fonts used (Pretendard, Noto Sans) are under the SIL Open Font License, which allows selling what you make (redistributing the font files themselves is a separate matter).

It Varies a Little by Device 📱💻

Desktop (Mac/Windows): A single file brings up a save dialog right away; for multiple files, just pick a folder once and they'll all land inside it.
Web browser: Files download one at a time, or hand off to the system print dialog.
iPhone · iPad · Android: Apps here can't trigger a direct download or open a print dialog. Instead, we save the file straight into your vault! Open the saved file in your Files app or a browser to print or share it. → Platform Guide
- Choose PDF, HTML, or Print → saved as an HTML file (open that HTML and print it to get a PDF).
- DOCX, Hangul, EPUB, and ZIP → saved with their own extensions (.docx, .hwpx, .epub, .zip) in the vault.

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