Supernote Digests

Import your Supernote digest backups directly into your Obsidian vault — no manual export or PDF extraction required.

Supernote's Digest feature lets you highlight handwritten notes and export them as a backup file (.snbak). This plugin reads that backup and turns each highlighted digest into a note in your vault, complete with an embedded image of the original handwritten mark.

Features

• Upload a .snbak backup file and automatically generate notes from your highlighted digests
• Choose how notes are organized:
  • Atomic — each digest becomes its own note, linked into an Atlas (map of content) for its source document
  • Document — all digests for a source document are collected into a single note
• Handwritten mark images are extracted from the backup and embedded next to each digest, with trailing whitespace trimmed automatically
• Re-uploading a backup only creates notes for digests that don't already exist — your existing notes are never overwritten
• Configurable vault paths for digests, images, and atlas notes

Usage

1. On your Supernote device, create a Digest backup:
   1. Swipe down from the top of the screen and tap Settings.
   2. Tap System.
   3. Go to Backup and Restore and tap the menu icon.
   4. Tap Backup.
   5. Check the checkbox next to Digest.
   6. Tap Back Up Now.
   7. Once complete, the backup file appears in your device's Export folder — transfer it to your computer via USB, email, cloud storage, or the Browse & Access feature. It'll have a .snbak extension.
2. In Obsidian, open Settings → Supernote Digests.
3. Under Path to Backup File, browse to and select your .snbak file.
4. Choose your preferred Note Organization Style — Atomic or Document. Switching this later will delete your previously generated notes, so you'll need to click Generate again afterward to rebuild them in the new style.
5. Optionally adjust where digests, images, and atlas notes are saved.
6. Click Generate. A progress bar shows how far along the import is.

You can re-run Generate any time you have a new backup — only new digests will produce new notes; anything already imported is left as-is.

Requirements

• Obsidian 1.5.7 or later
• Desktop only — this plugin reads the backup file directly from disk, so it isn't available on mobile
• The Dataview community plugin — Atlas notes use a Dataview query to list their linked digests, so Dataview must be installed and enabled for those to render

File access

Your Supernote backup (.snbak) typically lives outside your Obsidian vault — wherever you saved it after transferring it from your device. To read it, this plugin needs permission to access a file at the path you provide, outside the vault's own folder. No other files outside the vault are read or written, and nothing is sent over the network.

Installation

Search for "Supernote Digests" under Settings → Community plugins, once approved for the directory listing.

Or install manually: download main.js and manifest.json from the latest release and place them in <YourVault>/.obsidian/plugins/supernote-digests/, then enable the plugin under Settings → Community plugins.

License

0BSD