Import & Export

Move your thoughts in and out, and keep backups.

Exporting your garden

Click Share at the top right, then Import & Export. Export JSON saves the garden you're in, with everything nested inside it. The arrow beside it offers Markdown, OPML and CSV too.

Tip: JSON keeps the most, so use it for a file you'll import later.

Importing data

In the same place, click Import and pick a file. You see a preview first. Everything lands inside one new thought in the garden you're in, and anything nested in the file stays nested.

Tip: If a name is already taken, the imported thought gets a number, like “Health (1)”.

Type reconciliation on import

Types in the file are matched to yours by name. For any that don't match, choose Create to add the type or Skip to leave it out.

Full account backup

Settings → Backup & Restore saves your whole account in one file: every garden, every nested thought, your types and every image. Click Download backup to keep a copy yourself.

The Backup & Restore settings, with Download backup and Restore from file.

Automatic backups

Turn on Automatic backups and Neural Garden saves a snapshot with your account every 6 hours, daily or weekly, keeping the last 7. You'll see them on any device you sign in on. Their images count toward your 100 MB of storage.

Tip: Snapshots once kept only in a browser aren't shown, and a server problem could lose snapshots, so download a backup file now and then too.

Restoring a backup

Restore from file adds everything in a backup, images included, without removing or duplicating anything. For your own snapshots and .zip backups, Reset to this point puts your account back exactly as it was at that moment instead.

Tip: Before a reset, Neural Garden saves a snapshot so you can undo it, and the old images it keeps still count toward your storage.

Markdown folder mirror

The mirror keeps a copy of all your thoughts as Markdown files in a folder you pick, such as a Dropbox or git folder. It only goes one way, so edits to the files don't come back.

Tip: The mirror works in Chrome, Edge and Arc.

Demo data

Click Load demo data in Backup & Restore to try a full garden: a year of daily notes, projects, books and people. Each demo garden is a normal garden you can delete.