Exporting your boards as markdown

One click turns any board into a clean, portable .md file — your words in a format every writing tool can read.

Your words are yours. Cork's export exists so that sentence stays true no matter what — switching tools, backing up before a big delete, or handing a draft outline to something else in your writing pipeline.

Exporting a board

Open the board and click Export .md in the header. Cork downloads a markdown file named after the board. That's it — no wizard, no format menu, no email-us-for-your-data.

What's in the file

A faithful, readable version of the whole board:

The board name as the top heading.
In kanban view, each column becomes a section heading with its cards beneath it — your pipeline reads top to bottom.
In board view, cards export in reading order: left to right, top to bottom, the way you'd read the corkboard.
Every card appears as a heading with its full content — formatting, checklists (with their checked state), links, and quotes all intact, because cards are markdown already.
Tags are noted with each card, #like #this.
Card links keep their [[double bracket]] form, which tools like Obsidian will resolve if you drop your exports into a vault.
Images are noted by name. The image files themselves stay in Cork (a text file can't carry them), so save any originals you care about.

Good export habits

Export before deleting a board forever — it's the closest thing to an undo that permanent deletion can have.
Exports make fine periodic backups: a dated folder of .md files is small, future-proof, and readable in any text editor on earth.
The file is plain markdown, so it pastes cleanly into Scrivener, Ulysses, Google Docs, or an email to your editor.