Bring your Notion pages into River
The pages arrive as writing. A 400-row database does not become 400 notes.
Export your workspace as Markdown & CSV and drop the zip in. Your pages arrive as ordinary notes. Your databases do not. A database is a table, and turning its rows into notes would give you hundreds of one-line pages that look like writing and are not. Each CSV comes back to you whole instead, ready to open in a spreadsheet.
getting your notes out
In Notion, open Settings, then General, then Export all workspace content. Choose Markdown & CSV. Notion emails a zip. Drop it in as it arrives.
Up to 500MB in one go.
what arrives
Page text as Markdown. Images sitting beside the pages in the zip, within your plan's image allowance. If the export turns out to be one page a day, River offers to file those pages into days and lets you decide. Extra pages for a taken date arrive as ordinary notes.
what the export leaves out
Databases, as above — every CSV comes back to you. Views, rollups, filters and synced blocks are Notion's machinery and have no equivalent here. This is a copy, taken once. Notion carries on unchanged.
nothing goes missing quietly
Anything that cannot come across as a file is handed back to you. When the import finishes you get a leftovers file — a zip holding the actual files, with a short note against each one saying why it stayed behind.
Empty notes, and notes River already holds — say the same item is coming through again — are counted rather than packed. A matching title is not the same note. Extra writing for a day you already have arrives as an ordinary note, not as leftovers.
Download the leftovers file before you carry on. It's held for fifteen minutes after the import, and then it's gone. It lives in the page for that window — a refresh lets it go early — and it is never written into your browser's storage.
Pictures stay in the note on every plan, up to its image allowance. Free has 100MB of retained encrypted image storage; pictures beyond that come back in the same leftovers file, with the writing still in River. Paid has no ceiling on the total. Voice recordings come across on every plan. Audio in a format River does not support, or recordings larger than it can keep, come back in the leftovers file.
The same fifteen minutes is your window to undo. One tap, then a confirm, and the whole import goes to deleted. After that, the notes are yours, and can be deleted one at a time or in multiples like anything else.
start here
Write today, even if nothing has come across yet. The archive can come when you're ready.
Your own place to write, with your writing saved to your account.