Version history and export
Go back to an earlier version of a note, compare it with the current one, and export a note as Markdown, HTML, PDF, Word or a Filarr file.
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Filarr keeps earlier versions of each note as you write. If you delete a paragraph by mistake, or want to see what the note said last week, you can look back and restore. When a note has to leave Filarr, you can export it in the format the other person uses.
How Filarr keeps versions
You have nothing to do. While you write, Filarr takes a snapshot of the note:
- at most every 2 minutes, and only if the note has changed;
- it keeps up to 50 versions of each note, for 30 days.
Older versions go away by themselves.
Open the history
Click Version History (the clock) in the toolbar of the note. The Version History panel opens under the note, with the number of versions.
Three ways to look at the versions, at the top of the panel:
- List: the versions one under the other, the newest first, with their date and their number of words. Next to a version, Show changes shows what changed since then.
- Scrapbook: a full screen window, with the versions grouped by day on the left and a large preview on the right. Rendered shows the note as it was, Differences shows what was added and removed compared with now.
- Timeline: a full screen window with a time track at the top. Drag the handle, use Older version and Newer version, or press
←and→, to move from one version to the next.
Choose the one you like: Filarr remembers it. Esc closes the full screen windows. The List panel closes with its ×.
Restore a version
- Find the version in the history.
- Click Restore this version.
Restoring replaces the title and the text of the note with those of the version.
Delete this version removes one version for good, after a confirmation.
For a mistake you just made, Ctrl+Z is faster. Use it only on what you changed since you opened the note: going further back can bring in the text of the note you had open before. Ctrl+Y cancels that.
Export a note
- Click Export Note in the toolbar, or right-click the note in the list and choose Export.
- Choose a format.
- Tick or untick the options.
- Click Export.
| Format | For |
|---|---|
| Markdown (.md) | Plain text with formatting, readable by most note apps |
| HTML (.html) | A web page you can open in any browser |
| PDF (.pdf) | A document to read or print as it is |
| DOCX (.docx) | A Word document |
| Filarr (.filarr) | A complete copy with all the information of the note, to bring it back into Filarr later |
The options:
- Include metadata adds the creation and modification dates and the number of words, written in English.
- Include linked notes only changes the Markdown export. It adds a "Linked Notes" list at the end, where each note appears as an internal code, not by its title.
Filarr creates the file and downloads it to your computer. To close the window without exporting, click Cancel.
To bring a .filarr, .md or .html file back as a note, see Import from Obsidian, Notion or Markdown.
Copy as Markdown, in the right-click menu of a note, copies its text to paste it somewhere else, with no file.
The graph has its own image export: see The graph view. To publish a note as a web page instead, see Publish a note as a web page.