What comes across in a Standard Notes import?

Nearly everything. Here’s the full picture of how your Standard Notes account lands in Harbor — see How do I import from Standard Notes? for the step-by-step.

What comes across

• All your notes, with their formatting — headings, bold and italic, lists, checklists, tables, quotes, and links all carry over. Notes you’d password-protected in Standard Notes come across too.
• Your tags, including nested tags — the whole hierarchy is rebuilt in Harbor.
• Your attachments — images, PDFs, and audio — as long as you include the notes export (step 2 of the import). Each one lands back on the note it belonged to, and Harbor runs it through OCR so the text inside becomes searchable.
• Your dates. Each note keeps its original created and modified dates, so your history stays in order.
• Trashed notes arrive in Harbor’s Trash, right where you’d expect them.

How the shapes map

Standard Notes organizes only with tags — it has no notebooks — so:

Everything imports into one new notebook so it’s easy to find and easy to move around afterward. You can choose an existing notebook instead on the import screen.

The few things Standard Notes can’t hand over

• Pinned, starred, and archived flags. Harbor doesn’t have those exact states, so those markers are dropped. The notes themselves all come across.
• Attachments on a protected note. Standard Notes never includes those files in an export, so if a password-protected note had an attachment, the note arrives but that one file can’t. Harbor tells you precisely which notes this affected — it never happens silently.

If something’s missing

If your notes came in but the images and PDFs didn’t, the notes export (step 2) probably wasn’t included — re-run the import with it added. Everything is matched up by file, so importing again fills in the attachments without duplicating your notes.