# Every app Exporter reads

Exporter reads seven apps on your Mac and keeps each one in sync as Markdown.

- [Apple Notes](https://exporter.dev/notes.md): Notes with their folders, tags and attachments, drawings included.
- [Messages](https://exporter.dev/messages.md): One file per conversation, with a heading per day, reactions and photos.
- [Contacts](https://exporter.dev/contacts.md): One file per card, with every field in the front matter.
- [Screen Time](https://exporter.dev/screen-time.md): One file per day, kept after macOS deletes it about four weeks later.
- [Bear](https://exporter.dev/bear.md): Tagged notes, one folder per tag, read from Bear's database.
- [Logseq](https://exporter.dev/logseq.md): Pages and journals, namespaces as folders.
- [Documents](https://exporter.dev/documents.md): Word, PowerPoint, Excel, PDF and more, from a folder you pick.

## Where the files land

- One folder per app: For example Apple Notes in `~/Documents/notes`, Messages in `~/Documents/messages`, Contacts in `~/Documents/contacts`, and the same for `~/Documents/screen-time`, `~/Documents/bear`, `~/Documents/logseq` and `~/Documents/documents`.
- Side by side for agents: Keep the export folders in one parent folder and the [MCP server](https://exporter.dev/docs/mcp) serves them all together.
- Run records out of sight: Each export folder keeps `.exporter/` with the last run and its history. Obsidian never indexes a dot folder.
- Only its own files: A sync removes only files it wrote whose note, chat, card, page or document is gone, and leaves your own files alone; Screen Time keeps every day. A full resync (`exporter sync --full`) also removes only the files Exporter wrote, then writes everything again.

## Questions

### What is free?

Your first 100 notes and 100 contacts, your 10 most recent conversations, your 10 most recent days of Screen Time and your 10 most recently modified documents. Bear and Logseq are free with no limit. Each other app unlocks with a one-time purchase, [priced per country](https://exporter.dev/pricing).

### Can I pick where each app goes?

Yes. Every app has its own export folder, set on its card in the app: any folder, including one in your Obsidian vault.

### Does it only export Markdown?

Messages, Contacts, Screen Time and Logseq are always Markdown. Apple Notes and Bear write Markdown or HTML, one at a time, and Documents can write both in one sync, as you tick them on its card.

## Related

- [Pricing](https://exporter.dev/pricing): Free allowances and one-time unlocks
- [Download](https://exporter.dev/download): Get it from the Mac App Store
- [Docs](https://exporter.dev/docs): How each export works, app by app

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every page: https://exporter.dev/llms.txt