Move note to another profile

Hi,

I already asked in Discord if it's possible to move several notes to another profile. Someone told me about a workaround: Export everything from the default (private) profile, import everything into the work profile and delete "private" stuff from there to keep only work related stuff.

But it would be nice if we could move a note to another profile easily inside the app. I want to use only the work profile on my work smartphone and the private profile on my personal phone. And the most important thing for me is a third profile as "archive". I don't want to see old notes in the default or work profile but I don't want to delete them. So it would be nice to move them to an archive-profile.

Thanks.

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Yes, I would love that feature as well if possible.

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Yes another use could be a “Note profile” and a “Task profile”.
When a project become real it could be moved to the Task profile to begin the to-dos.

(Side note: Also for users unable to find how to add a “new note”, an option to disabled the “to-do” button could be added on the Note profile)

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Is there any way to bring this feature request forward to the devs?

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+1

I need this so badly. I usually have open my writing profile (small) instead of my giant evernote export profile where I've saved recipes and crochet patterns for twenty years. :frowning: But sometimes I see something interesting browsing online and want to clip...

Hi,

Here is what I do that works perfectly given the options that we have.

Put all of the notes that you want to move from profile a to profile B into one new notebook that you will use to copy the data/notes.

Right. Click on the notebook that you're going to move and choose export to a JEX joplin export file.

Switch to the other profile and then from the file menu. Import that file that you just exported. And it will import a new notebook with all of the notes that you want.

Does that lose data? I'm worried about losing image quality etc. I save a lot of Wikipedia articles and animal photos.

If you export a note, you lose history, tags, and some other information related to it (see https://discourse.joplinapp.org/t/export-import-is-not-a-backup/8934/2). The note content itself is kept intact.

Just about to read @tomasz86 information. I didn't realize anything would be lost during the export/import. Losing history is understandable.

UPDATE:
I just exported a bunch of notes that had tags in them and then imported them into another profile and the tags were still there it did not drop or delete the tags.

However, I would hate to lose tags.

If that is a concern, then don't put the original notes in the notebook that you're going to transfer to the other account, make a copy of them And transfer that so that you preserve the original folder and notes. I just selected all notes in a single notebook. And I was presented with the opportunity to duplicate them. And unfortunately, it put the word copy at the end of every note. You don't want that unless you don't care if the word copy is added to the end of each note.

I tried something tricky that I wasn't sure of so I tested it. I exported all of the notes that had the word copy in them and then I edited the exported file and did a find and replace removing all of the word copy and then when I saved it and tried to import it I got an error saying that there was a check some error so you can't go in and do it that way.

Just so I have an idea approximately how many notes and notebooks are you looking to move from one location to the other? If all you're moving are a certain number of notes in each notebook even if they're in the numbers of 200 in one notebook you can highlight all of the notes in a notebook or say half of them and then export that half and then import it into a new notebook.

I just upgraded my video recording software so I have to reboot my computer now. I will try and make a brief video explaining how I would approach your situation only I don't know exactly how much quantity you are looking to move so my instructional video will be short and give you some ideas.

If everything you want to export is already in one single notebook in the source profile, exporting to a file is not going to alter change or delete in any way. The notes that are currently in the source database. then you can import them into the other profile and they'll be exactly the same.

If you would rather select individual notes inside a notebook you can select 20 of them and then export all of them into a file that you can import into the other profile.

I also moved or actually am in the process of moving from evernote to Joplin.

There is a very nice program available that exports your entire evernote. Database into a single file and then from there. You can export that single database file into all of the notebooks that you had in evernote. All of the notebooks will expand into one folder and then Joplin can import that folder and reimport. Or import all of your ever note notebooks. So there is little risk of losing your original data.

Evernote backup software to export entire evernote data store

I tried something tricky that I wasn't sure of so I tested it. I exported all of the notes that had the word copy in them and then I edited the exported file and did a find and replace removing all of the word copy and then when I saved it and tried to import it I got an error saying that there was a check some error so you can't go in and do it that way.

Just so I have an idea approximately how many notes and notebooks are you looking to move from one location to the other? If all you're moving are a certain number of notes in each notebook even if they're in the numbers of 200 in one notebook you can highlight all of the notes in a notebook or say half of them and then export that half and then import it into a new notebook.

I just upgraded my video recording software so I have to reboot my computer now. I will try and make a brief video explaining how I would approach your situation only I don't know exactly how much quantity you are looking to move so my instructional video will be short and give you some ideas.

There's also a plug-in that is highly recommended for those moving from Evernote because Joplin Imports Evernote links from onenotebook to another r notebook but doesn't do anything with them. There is an extension for Joplin that will go through and fix that so any note to note links and you had will be recovered. If you need that let me know and I will post the information. It's a Joplin plug-in. I think it is called bidirectional links.

This is wrong! Only the note history is lost.
Alle resources, tags metadata are included in the JEX Export.

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Hi,

Approximately how many notebooks and notes total and per notebook are you interested in copying from one profile to the other?

Big job?

I alternate between two profiles when clipping, so it depends. Sometimes between ten and twenty.