# Regular Exports to Markdown - Automation

**URL:** <https://community.bear.app/t/regular-exports-to-markdown-automation/17478>\
**Category:** General\
**Tags:** shortcuts\
**Created:** [July 8, 2025, 2:22pm UTC](https://community.bear.app/t/regular-exports-to-markdown-automation/17478 "2025-07-08T14:22:29Z")\
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**Author:** ![bearmacho](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/b5e925/32.png) [@bearmacho](https://community.bear.app/u/bearmacho)\
**Post date:** [July 8, 2025, 2:22pm UTC](https://community.bear.app/t/regular-exports-to-markdown-automation/17478/1 "2025-07-08T14:22:29Z")

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I’d like to regularly backup my notes (and attachments) to markdown files so they can be used elsewhere.

I tried creating an Apple shortcut using AI to build it, but got close but not close enough to a working solution.

Does anyone here run regular exports? I don’t want textbundle files, although I guess I could extract them at the end of the process - more hassle tho

Ideally I’d have a folder PER tag

Any suggestions welcome. Thanks

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**Author:** ![trix180](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/user_avatar/community.bear.app/trix180/32/588_2.png) [@trix180](https://community.bear.app/u/trix180)\
**Post date:** [July 9, 2025, 7:30am UTC](https://community.bear.app/t/regular-exports-to-markdown-automation/17478/2 "2025-07-09T07:30:58Z")

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On macOS, it’s possible to [schedule repeated shortcut runs](https://medium.com/@richardmoult75/how-to-schedule-macos-shortcuts-96774f6972ac) using Calendar. The idea is to use Bear’s export action with the markdown option.

The tricky part is having this done for all the notes or creating a folder for each tag, because Bear doesn’t have an action returning all those entities. If you already know the tags you want to export, you can use search’s #tags syntax and export each of the returning notes into the destination folder.

Alternatively, you can use the backup action, uncompress the archive once saved, and extract the MD files.

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**Author:** ![bearmacho](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/b5e925/32.png) [@bearmacho](https://community.bear.app/u/bearmacho)\
**Post date:** [July 9, 2025, 12:05pm UTC](https://community.bear.app/t/regular-exports-to-markdown-automation/17478/3 "2025-07-09T12:05:52Z")

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Thanks for responding.

Feels like the backup action might be the most straightforward approach. I tried building a process using AI but it started getting really finicky around the shortcut actions