Move your notes
Move your notes from Apple Notes
Nuxa reads your notes straight from the Notes app. No export needed.
1At a glance
- How it works
- No export needed Nuxa reads your notes directly.
- How long
- About 2–5 minutes for most libraries; thousands of notes take longer.
- What comes across
- ✓ Notebooks & folders
- ✓ Images
- ✓ Dates
2Step by step
4 steps. Nuxa shows you these same steps, one at a time.
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Step 1
Allow Nuxa to read Notes
Click Allow Access. macOS asks whether Nuxa may use Notes: click OK. Nuxa only reads; it never changes your notes.
Button in Nuxa: Allow Access
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Step 2
Pick the folders
Tick the folders to bring in.
Button in Nuxa: Import These Folders
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Step 3
Bringing your notes in…
Nuxa reads your notes from Apple Notes and adds them to a new notebook, “From Apple Notes”. You can stop and resume.
Button in Nuxa: Import
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Step 4
Your notes are in
Here's what came across, and anything that couldn't be converted, with why.
Button in Nuxa: Open imported notes
3What comes across, and what doesn’t
When the import finishes, Nuxa shows a report of what came across, and anything it couldn’t convert, with why.
Comes across
- Folders, as sections
- Notes, with their formatting
- Images inside notes
- Created and modified dates
Doesn’t come across
- PDFs, scans and other attachments (save them from Notes)
- Locked notes
- Recently Deleted
4Troubleshooting
Tap a problem to see the fix.
Step 1 Allow Nuxa to read Notes
I clicked Don't Allow
Nothing happens
Step 2 Pick the folders
A folder is missing
Locked notes aren't listed
Step 3 Bringing your notes in…
It's taking a long time
I stopped it by mistake
Step 4 Your notes are in
Some notes are missing
I imported the wrong thing
Any step Something else
I'm not sure which app I'm coming from
macOS asks for permission
Nothing seems to happen
5Still stuck?
Email us and tell us which step you’re on. A human reads every message.
6Last checked September 25, 2026