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Move out of Notion without losing your pages

About 30 minutes, plus up to 30 hours for Notion to send a workspace export Anyone cancelling Notion or moving a team wiki, notes, or specs to another app.

Export the whole workspace as Markdown & CSV, then run the zip through the Notion export cleaner to strip the 32-character IDs, fix the links, and add a Markdown table for each database. From there, paste pages into Google Docs or Confluence with the matching converter, or keep the folder as plain Markdown.

The chain

  1. 01

    Export the workspace from Notion

    In Notion, go to Settings, then General under Workspace, then Export all workspace content. Choose Markdown & CSV and turn on Include subpages. The emailed link expires after 7 days.

    You get: A zip of Markdown pages, database CSVs, and images, with an ID on every file name.

  2. 02

    Clean the export

    Switch to Clean export (.zip) and drop the zip in. Turn on Obsidian [[wiki links]] only if you are moving to Logseq, or to Obsidian without its Importer. For Obsidian, follow the Move from Notion to Obsidian workflow (/workflows/notion-to-obsidian) first.

    You get: A clean zip with page-title file names, working links, and a Markdown table page for each database.

  3. 03

    Turn a single database into a table

    For one database you want on its own, paste its CSV and copy the Markdown table.

    You get: A Markdown table you can drop into any page.

  4. 04

    Move pages to Google Docs

    Paste a cleaned page's Markdown and copy the rich-text output into a Google Doc.

    You get: A Google Doc with real headings, lists, links, and tables.

  5. 05

    Or move pages to Confluence

    For a few pages, paste each one's Markdown and copy the wiki markup or storage format. For a whole workspace, use Confluence's own Notion importer instead.

    You get: Confluence pages with headings, lists, tables, and code blocks intact.

The prompt for the thinking step

Plan where each Notion page goes

Paste the file list from your cleaned export. Works in Claude, ChatGPT, or any assistant.

I am moving out of Notion. Here is the file list from my cleaned Markdown export:

<files>
[PASTE THE FOLDER TREE OR FILE LIST HERE]
</files>

My destinations are: [LIST THEM, e.g. Google Docs for shared docs, Obsidian for personal notes, Confluence for the team wiki].

Return a Markdown table with these columns: Page, Destination, Why, Manual checks.

Rules:
1. One row per top-level page or folder. Group small subpages under their parent.
2. Put database table pages in their own rows and say whether the destination needs the table or can drop it.
3. In Manual checks, name only what applies: callouts (exported as raw HTML), images, database views, formulas, comments.
4. If a page looks like a duplicate or an old draft, say so instead of assigning it a destination.
5. Do not invent pages that are not in the list.

Run it now

Convert Notion exports to clean Markdown. Paste text, or upload a full Notion export .zip to remove IDs from file names, fix links, turn databases into tables, and get Obsidian wiki links.

Open the Notion export cleaner

Questions people ask

Do I lose my pages if I cancel Notion?

No. Downgrading to Free keeps your content, with Free-plan limits. Export first anyway, and do not delete the workspace to stop billing, since Notion says that does not cancel the subscription.

Should I export as Markdown or HTML?

Markdown & CSV for this workflow, because the cleaner and the converters work on Markdown. Also keep an HTML export if you might use Obsidian's Importer or want comments, which Notion only documents for HTML.

Does the cleaner upload my export?

No. The Notion export cleaner runs in your browser and builds the clean zip there.

What about Obsidian, Logseq, or Claude Code?

For Obsidian, use the Move from Notion to Obsidian workflow, which starts with Obsidian's own Importer. For Logseq or Claude Code, keep the cleaned folder as plain Markdown. The Notion to Markdown guides cover both.

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