The way hierarchy selection works right now is that if your patter is

foo

, it's inclusive of

foo

+ everything under it. Unfortunately there isn't a way to modify this behavior right now, apart from not having the root note at all to prevent the export. Would you mind opening a feature request for this? There are a couple of ways we can implement this: - probably the easiest way is that we support regex in the hierarchy selector so you can do something like

^foo.+

- we've also thought about having export integrate with the Notes Trait system such that you can restrict export to just a certain 'type' of note, for example in this case, just export notes under this hierarchy of type 'task'. We're quite far from this capability at the moment though