Export & import

Four ways a draft leaves Quorly

A writing app is only as good as the door out of it. Everything you write here can leave as a file you own, in a format the next tool understands — and none of the routes need an account or a server in the middle.

FormatBest forCost
Copy to clipboardSubstack, Ghost, Medium — a formatted pasteFree
Markdown (.md)Static sites, notes apps, Git, anything plain-textFree (Chromium browsers)
PDFSending to an editor or a reader who wants a fixed pageFree
EPUBReading on a Kindle or another e-readerQuorly Pro

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What each route is for

Copy to clipboard

The fastest path to a publishing tool. It puts formatted HTML on the clipboard, so headings, lists, quotes, code and links survive the paste into Substack, Ghost or Medium. Images are not carried; add them in the destination editor.

Markdown

The durable one. A .md file outlives every app that ever opened it, and every static-site generator, notes app and code editor reads it. Exporting needs the File System Access API, which means a Chromium browser; the Markdown page explains the fallback.

PDF

For the person who needs to read the piece, not edit it. The PDF keeps a selectable text layer, so a reader can copy a sentence and an editor can comment on it. Light and dark print themes are both available.

EPUB

For a book, a long essay, or anything that should reflow on an e-reader. EPUB export is part of Quorly Pro, and the file is what Kindle accepts through Send to Kindle. The same tier can import EPUB too, so a book can come in, be edited, and go back out.

And the backup format

A .quorly package is not an export for readers — it is the document plus its images, in a file that imports back into Quorly exactly. Use it to move a draft between the browser and the desktop app, or to keep a copy that does not depend on browser storage.

Ready when you are

Start writing — free

Your draft leaves as a file you own, in a format the next tool understands.

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