Export and import

You can take everything out of Vesper at any time, on any plan, and bring it back in.

Export

Unlock the workspace and choose Settings → Plan and data → Export. Your browser downloads every entry and photo through your unlocked session and saves them as a zip named like vesper-20261114.zip. With many photos this takes a while; keep the tab open until the download starts.

The zip holds readable files, not ciphertext:

entries/2026/11/{id}.md    each entry as Markdown, with its details in the front matter
photos/{id}.jpg            each original photo
photos.json                size, time, place and camera details of every photo
workspace/icon.png         the workspace icon
manifest.json              format version, counts and a SHA-256 checksum of every file

An entry file looks like this:

---
id: 3f1c…
created: 2026-11-12T14:03:00.000Z
occurred: 2026-11-12T14:03:00.000Z
visibility: private
tags:
  - daily
  - coffee
photos:
  - 9a2e…
---
Spent the afternoon at the café and finally finished the draft.

The files open in any Markdown editor, and the folder works as an Obsidian vault.

Keep the export somewhere safe. Unlike the workspace, it is not encrypted.

Import

Choose Settings → Plan and data → Import and pick a Vesper export. Vesper checks every file against the checksums first and stops if anything is missing or damaged. Then it adds each entry with its photos.

Entries that are already in the workspace are left as they are, so importing the same zip twice does no harm. Imported entries count against your storage like new ones.

Import reads only Vesper's own export format. Other apps are not supported yet.