# Additional export formats // pandoc integration

**URL:** <https://discourse.joplinapp.org/t/additional-export-formats-pandoc-integration/1089>\
**Category:** Features\
**Created:** [21 November 2018 09:50 UTC](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/t/additional-export-formats-pandoc-integration/1089 "2018-11-21T09:50:53Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![philip-n](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex028/user_avatar/discourse.joplinapp.org/philip-n/32/4619_2.png) [@philip-n](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/u/philip-n)\
**Post date:** [21 November 2018 09:50 UTC](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/t/additional-export-formats-pandoc-integration/1089/1 "2018-11-21T09:50:53Z")

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I very much like Joplin and use it for personal note taking, but also for preparing stuff in markdown to then share it with others (or put it into a wiki entry). For the latter, there’s some convenience functionality that would ease my workflow and (I imagine) be helpful to others as well.

# Feature request(s)

## Raw export of single note

Add an export option to save the raw content of the current note as `.md` file. This would save the “copy content” \> “open any text editor” \> “paste” \> “Save with desired filename”. Or is there already a simple way to do that, that I missed?

## Extend export formats

There’s a nice program for converting markdown to tons of different formats called pandoc, see [https://pandoc.org/](https://pandoc.org/) (or [https://pandoc.org/try](https://pandoc.org/try) for live testing). It would be great to offer integration with pandoc, so e.g. the user can set the path to a pandoc executable in the Joplin settings and then have additional export possibilities (basically everything that pandoc can export to).

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**Author:** ![foxmask](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c68b51/32.png) [@foxmask](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/u/foxmask)\
**Post date:** [21 November 2018 10:01 UTC](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/t/additional-export-formats-pandoc-integration/1089/2 "2018-11-21T10:01:49Z")

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if at least we could just export one note in markdown, then anyone can use pandoc to convert it in whatever its needed.

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**Author:** ![laurent](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ce7236/32.png) [@laurent](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/u/laurent)\
**Post date:** [21 November 2018 10:13 UTC](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/t/additional-export-formats-pandoc-integration/1089/3 "2018-11-21T10:13:18Z")

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If you right-click on a note and select Export \> MD, you can already export a note as Markdown. Is that what you mean?

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**Author:** ![philip-n](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex028/user_avatar/discourse.joplinapp.org/philip-n/32/4619_2.png) [@philip-n](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/u/philip-n)\
**Post date:** [21 November 2018 13:20 UTC](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/t/additional-export-formats-pandoc-integration/1089/4 "2018-11-21T13:20:52Z")

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Thanks for the quick response! I was still on .104 _and_ I somehow didn’t expect there to be a context menu for single notes, so I hadn’t seen this possibility.

Yes, this answers the first part! Additional suggestion for saving single notes: allow entering a file name and directly save there. When I tested it earlier, it created a folder named as the notebook and saved the note in there (probably a restricted version of the “export everything as md”?).

The new export options (MD, JSON) that I found after upgrading are also much appreciated - thanks a lot!

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**Author:** ![Bazingaaaaa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ecd19e/32.png) [@Bazingaaaaa](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/u/Bazingaaaaa)\
**Post date:** [15 July 2019 06:23 UTC](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/t/additional-export-formats-pandoc-integration/1089/5 "2019-07-15T06:23:24Z")

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Thanks for the solution… really helpful