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Bringing your Listed blog over to noted

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Listed closes on December 31. If you have a blog there, this is how to move it to noted without losing anything, and without touching a single file.

What you need

  • A noted account. Start one at noted.do if you haven't; it takes a minute and asks for nothing but a username.
  • Your Listed address, the one that looks like https://listed.to/@yourname.

That's it. You don't need an export from Listed, and you don't need to re-publish anything from Standard Notes.

The import

  1. Sign in to noted and open your Account page.
  2. Go to the Account tab and find Import posts.
  3. Paste your Listed address into the box and press Import posts.

Give it a few seconds. When it's done you'll see something like Imported 42 posts, and brought 17 pictures across. Open your blog and they're all there — every post with its original date, so your archive reads the way it did before, not as forty-two posts published today.

Pictures come too

This is the part people worry about. Pictures you put in Listed posts live on Listed's servers, and when Listed goes dark, so do they.

The import doesn't leave them behind. Every picture in your posts is downloaded, stored on noted, and the posts are rewritten to point at the new copy. Nothing on your blog points at Listed afterwards. If you had a lot of pictures, the import does them in batches: the Import card will say how many are still waiting and offer a Bring pictures across button. Press it until the number reaches zero.

Running it again is safe

If you publish something new on Listed between now and the end of the year, just paste your address and import again. Posts that are already on noted are skipped; only the new ones come across. You can't end up with duplicates.

What the import can't see

The import reads your Listed blog the way a reader would, so it brings across what readers could see: your published posts. Private and unlisted posts don't come along. For those, open the note in Standard Notes with the noted plugin installed and publish it from there — the note is the source, so nothing is lost, it just takes one click per post. The same goes for a metatype: css note that styled your blog: publish it again from the note and it styles your noted blog instead.

After the move

A couple of things worth a minute once your posts are in:

  • Tell your readers. Publish a short post on Listed pointing at your new address. Listed will still be up for a few more weeks, and that post is the signpost.
  • Check your pages. If you used page: true notes for an About page or a menu, they came across as pages. Have a look at the menu on your blog and make sure they're in the order you want.
  • Point the plugin at noted. Install the noted plugin in Standard Notes (the link is on your Account page), and from then on publishing a note goes to your new blog.
  • Fixing an old post. Imported posts don't know which note they came from, so the simplest way to fix a typo in one is noted's own editor: open the post from your Account page, change it, save. If you'd rather keep the note as the source, publish the note and delete the imported copy — otherwise you'll have both.

That's the whole move. One address, one button, and your writing has a home that isn't closing.