Inkdrop Local Database Extractor

Salvage data from a local database for Inkdrop.

You can extract a data as backup files from the local database of Inkdrop.

It supports the SQLite-based local database of Inkdrop v6 or later. The database is opened read-only, so it is never modified.

Deleted notes, notebooks, tags and files are salvaged as well. Since Inkdrop never compacts the local database, the last revision before each deletion is exported into the _deleted directory.

See Salvage Data from Local Database in the Inkdrop docs for the step-by-step guide.

Install

Requires Node.js 24.16 or later.

npm install -g inkdrop-localdb-extract

How to salvage data

inkdrop-localdb-extract

Options:
  --version   Show version number                                      [boolean]
  -s, --src   The path to the source database file
              (ex: "~/Library/Application Support/inkdrop/db/56ab08396cec2c0f87492c9a0f005f86.sqlite")   [required]
  -d, --dest  The path to the destination directory                   [required]
  --help      Show help                                                [boolean]

Your database file can be found at the following path:

• on macOS: ~/Library/Application Support/inkdrop/db/<USER_ID>.sqlite
• on Windows: %APPDATA%/inkdrop/db/<USER_ID>.sqlite
• on Linux: ~/.config/inkdrop/db/<USER_ID>.sqlite

USER_ID looks something like 56ab08396cec2c0f87492c9a0f005f86.

For example:

inkdrop-localdb-extract --src /path/to/db/<USER_ID>.sqlite --dest /path/to/store