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Exporting your world

Every universe can be exported as a zip, any time, from Settings → Data: one markdown file per entry, frontmatter carrying the entry's id and type, wikilinks between entries, an images folder. It is flat, not organised into folders by type, and it holds only what you have accepted - nothing still sitting in your proposal inbox ends up in the file.

valdoria-reach-export.zip
├── aldric-vane.md
├── the-gilded-rat.md
└── images/

No lock-in

Plain markdown with wikilinks reads directly in Obsidian or anything else that understands the same [[wikilink]] syntax, and as plain text everywhere else - it is a file on your disk either way, not a format only Canonry's own code can open.

If you turn generation off

Switching generation off, for one universe or for all of them, does not touch this export and does not touch the canon underneath it. Search, browsing, entries, relations and this same zip all keep working - only drafting, propagation, images and everything else a model writes stops.

This describes the export as decided (docs/ux/DECISIONS.md, F4): a flat zip, no typed folders, no repository tooling built in. If that ever changes, this page changes with it.