Exporting notes from Notion has been a nightmare. ...
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Exporting notes from Notion has been a nightmare. I have notes containing images with some text that I want to export as a PDF document. I have tried the following two approaches till now; 1. Use "*Export as PDF*" option - I have tried exporting the PDF in both A3/A4 page size; however, apart from reducing the number of pages it doesn't help much as the images are split across pages or sometimes moved entirely to a new page leaving abundant empty space on previous page. 1. Use "*Export as HTML*" option - download the HTML content, open it in a browser and take the screenshot of the webpage using Fireshot which can then be exported as a PDF. This has been my go-to option. (I have also tried Ctrl + P and take a print directly, but it leads me back to issue 1). However, there are a couple of challenges; a. The exported PDF is one BIG page taking a print of which isn't possible. b. Since, the tool (Fireshot) takes screenshot of the entire web page, the downloaded PDF is not text-searchable + I cannot annotate anything if I want to. I have researched a LOT on this - reddit, Notion guides etc, but haven't found a better way. I was wondering if anyone has any trick up there sleeve that can help sort this? I would really appreciate it 🙂
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sometimes moved entirely to a new page leaving abundant empty space on previous page.
I don't think there's a workaround for this.
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use notion react rendered then export as pdf? not sure if this will work either but something to tr
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Thanks for sharing this @chilly-lock-4986. But I am unsure on how to use it? Do I need to write some code in React to get it to work?
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yes you’ve to use react to render notion page in a webpage and try exporting as pdf from browser…
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This is exactly why I never use third party tools for my personal note taking. These tools are so freaking great but then they will lock you down to their platform when it comes to exporting… One example is apple notes, you can’t export all notes?! Like what the f?!
My suggestion would be to use Markdown files to write your notes. I have been managing my entire diary + notes for 4-5 years now with hundreds of markdown files organised using tags and folders.
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And I can print them out if I want to, upload them to google drive or just sync with my mobile if needed.