Import from Simplenote
Upload the notes.json file you get from Simplenote's Settings → Export in one pass.
Export from Simplenote
Open the Simplenote app
You need a client signed in to the same account, on macOS, Windows, iOS, Android, or the web.
Open Settings → Export
On desktop and web: the gear at the bottom left → Settings → Tools → Export. On iOS and Android: Settings → Export.
Click Download Export
A single ZIP file is downloaded. Unzip it and you will find source/notes.json inside.
Import into Tabple
Open Settings → Backup → Import notes
Profile menu (or the Settings icon at the bottom of the sidebar) → Settings → Backup → 'Open the import screen' on the 'Import notes from another tool' card. Or go straight to /settings/import.
Pick a project
Choose the project the imported notes go into, at the top. Pages are added at the top level of the Wiki.
Choose the file on the Simplenote card
Press 'Choose file' on the card, or drag a .json file onto it. Parsing and page creation start automatically after the upload.
Check the result
When it finishes, 'Done: N pages' is shown along with skipped and error counts.
Conversion rules
- One note → one Wiki page (at the top level of the Wiki — Simplenote has no folder structure)
- The title is extracted from the first line of the body — a leading
#markdown prefix is stripped, and an empty note becomes 'Untitled' - The body is converted from markdown to editor JSON automatically (lists, checkboxes, code blocks, links, and other standard markdown)
creationDate/modificationDate→ preserved as the page's created and modified times (the import time if absent)- Tags are preserved as a
#tagparagraph at the very top of the body, and pinned notes are starred as favorites - A
simplenote://internal link is turned into a page mention automatically if it points at a note in the same export - Both the
activeNotesshape and a plain array are supported. Trashed notes are excluded automatically
Cautions
- Simplenote does not support attachments, so nothing extra is uploaded.
- Tabple has no page tag feature, so tags are preserved as body text only — you can find
#tagwith global search (⌘K). - Up to 10,000 notes at a time. Beyond that, export the notes in batches.
- An import cannot be undone, so testing with a small sample first is recommended.
- Each file can be at most 50MB. You can start an import 3 times a minute, 15 times an hour, and 50 times a day; once you hit a limit, try again after the time shown in the message.
- The number of Wiki pages stays within the project owner's plan limit (Free 100 · paid plans unlimited). If the notes you are importing would go past what is left, the import is rejected.