Export Your Browser Notes to Markdown or JSON — and Search All of Them

A notepad you can't get data out of is a trap, even a private one. FreelyMemo avoids that by making it straightforward to export browser notes to Markdown or JSON — or plain text — whenever you want, plus search across everything you've written. Both are part of FreelyMemo Pro.

Export your browser notes to Markdown, JSON, or plain text

Any note can be exported as a Markdown file, a JSON file, or plain text. The Markdown export keeps the note's title, tags, and creation date as readable header text above the body — useful if you're dropping it straight into an Obsidian vault or a GitHub repo. The JSON export keeps the note's full structure intact, which is the better option if you're archiving notes or feeding them into another tool programmatically.

None of these exports lock you in. They're plain files on your own disk the moment you download them — no proprietary format, nothing that only opens back up inside FreelyMemo. If you ever decide to stop using the extension, your notes leave with you, in a format any editor can open.

Exports run one note at a time, straight from the pad — highlight the note you want, choose Markdown or JSON, and the file downloads immediately. There's no batching step or export queue to wait on.

Search across every note you've written

Once you've got more than a handful of notes spread across color tabs, finding one by scrolling gets slow. FreelyMemo's search looks across every note's title, tags, and body text at once, so you can find the note with that order number or that quote without remembering which color tab you filed it under.

Search runs entirely on your own device — the same local-first principle that governs how notes are stored applies here too. Nothing about what you search for is sent anywhere, because there's no server involved in a search at all; it's just your browser matching text against notes it already has locally.

Each result comes with a short snippet of surrounding text, so you can tell which note matched before you open it — useful when a word like "invoice" shows up in more than one place.

A practical example

You've been using FreelyMemo for a few months and have forty-odd notes scattered across "work," "ideas," and "reading" tabs. You vaguely remember jotting down a vendor's contract terms a while back, but not which tab or when. Instead of clicking through each color tab, you search "contract" and find it in seconds. Later, when you need that same note in a shared document, you export it to Markdown and paste it in — no retyping, no copy-paste errors.

If you haven't set up sync yet and want the same searchable, exportable notes on a second browser too, see how end-to-end encrypted sync works.

Get export and search

Export and search are both part of the Pro feature set, available during FreelyMemo's 7-day free trial with no credit card required. Keep them after the trial with a one-time $10 payment — not a subscription — covering both Chrome and Firefox. See the pricing page for the full breakdown.

Install FreelyMemo, write a few notes, and try searching or exporting one to see how it fits into the way you already work.

Neither feature requires you to change how you take notes in the first place — export and search work on notes you've already written and clipped, so the benefit shows up automatically as your note collection grows, not as a new habit you have to build.

That's the general idea behind FreelyMemo Pro: the 7-day trial lets you try the full capture experience — shortcut, clipping, color tabs, export, search, sync — before you decide anything, and the one-time $10 payment keeps all of it once the trial ends.