River beside Ulysses
Locked sheets will not open here. Open them in Ulysses first.
A library you have kept for years is not something to move on a whim. Ulysses is for the long work. River is for today's writing — the page you open before you know what the words are for. Keep both, and see which one you open. If you want some sheets sitting behind today's page, export them as Markdown or TextBundle and drop the zip in.
getting your notes out
In Ulysses, export a group or selected sheets as Markdown or TextBundle. Put those files in a zip, then drop the zip in.
Up to 100MB in one go.
what arrives
The sheet text, and images inside a TextBundle, within your plan's image allowance.
what the export leaves out
Locked sheets. River cannot open them. Open them in Ulysses, then export again. Ulysses-only annotations and publishing settings that never left the library. The library itself is untouched.
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.