If you’re a heavy Notion user—whether for personal knowledge management, project planning, or collaborative work—you’ve likely asked yourself a simple but crucial question: “How do I safely back up all my data?”

Enter Notion Backup by SecNex: a streamlined, Docker-powered solution to locally export your entire Notion workspace in multiple formats—HTML, PDF, and Markdown. Built with flexibility, transparency, and future restoration capabilities in mind, this open-source project gives Notion power users the control they deserve over their data.

Why Backup Notion at All?

Notion is a phenomenal cloud-first tool. But relying solely on a third-party service without a reliable backup strategy can be risky. Data loss, accidental deletion, API limitations, or even account access issues can lead to headaches—or worse, data disasters.

With Notion Backup, your workspace content is downloaded and stored locally in human-readable formats. You maintain ownership of your data, even if Notion changes its policies or something goes wrong.

What’s Under the Hood?

At the heart of Notion Backup is the Python package secnex_notion_api—developed by the same team—that wraps around the Notion API to provide a more powerful and programmable interface for exporting content. This API wrapper handles querying, filtering, and formatting your workspace data.

The Docker image bundles everything together so you can run backups in a consistent environment, regardless of your host OS.

What’s Coming Next? Restore Support

Currently, Notion Backup is read-only: it lets you pull your content out of Notion, but not push it back in. However, the roadmap includes a future “Restore” mode that will enable users to re-import backed-up content into Notion, potentially supporting entire workspace recovery or selective page restoration.

This upcoming feature could make Notion Backup a full-fledged disaster recovery tool for Notion users—especially useful for teams managing large-scale knowledge bases.

Final Thoughts

In a world increasingly reliant on SaaS tools, projects like Notion Backup remind us how important it is to remain in control of our own data. Whether you’re an individual user looking to archive your second brain, or a team that needs reliable data export for compliance or peace of mind, this tool provides a robust, developer-friendly solution.

And with HTML, PDF, and Markdown exports, your data remains portable, editable, and future-proof.

Ready to take control of your Notion data? Check it out on GitHub: https://github.com/SecNex/notion-backup