Wandao (万能导) is a multi-platform knowledge-base Markdown import and export tool that turns content you have permission to access into local Markdown and pushes local Markdown back into supported platforms, built for people who need to back up, migrate, or study documentation without manual copying and pasting.

What it is

Wandao is an open-source desktop application written in Python and licensed under AGPL-3.0, with the 1.4.x desktop front end built on Tauri 2. It lives in the note-taking, knowledge-base and data-portability corner of the tooling ecosystem, and the repository topics — backup, data-portability, migration-tool, markdown, note-taking, evernote, feishu, obsidian, onenote — describe that placement accurately. Its stated purpose is to export knowledge bases a user may access as local Markdown, and to import prepared Markdown into other platforms, while keeping directory structure, body formatting, images and attachments as intact as the source allows.

The specific thing it replaces is manual copy-and-paste followed by manual tidying. Moving documents between 飞书 Wiki, 语雀, 阿里云 Thoughts, 印象笔记, 有道云笔记, 为知笔记, OneNote, 知识星球, ima 知识库, 钉钉文档, WPS 文档, 息流, Obsidian, 知乎, CSDN, 微信公众号 and plain local Markdown normally means re-creating folder trees, re-uploading images and losing attachments. Wandao reads the real directory tree, lets the user select by folder or by document, and processes the selection as a task that can be stopped, continued or retried.

Key capabilities

• Export from named sources including 语雀 (knowledge base, directory, Markdown, images, attachments), 飞书 Wiki (wiki directory, native documents, Markdown files), 知识星球 (posts with optional comments and attachments), 印象笔记 (by notebook), 有道云笔记 (directory tree, body images, attachments), 阿里云 Thoughts workspaces, 钉钉文档, WPS 云文档, 息流, ima 知识库, Obsidian Vault archiving with resource copying and reference rewriting, and single-article export for 知乎, CSDN and 微信公众号.
• Import into 飞书 Wiki (batch Markdown import that restores multi-level directory structure), 语雀 (create or update knowledge-base documents and upload images and attachments), 印象笔记 (batch Markdown, images, attachments) and ima 知识库 (upload to a knowledge base or an existing folder).
• Directory structure control: the tool reads the real directory tree and lets the user pick by folder or by individual document.
• Resource localization: body images and attachments are preserved locally where the platform permits it.
• Task handling: incremental processing skips completed content, and failures can be retried while progress, logs and task reports stay visible in 任务中心.
• Plugin center: platform capabilities can be downloaded, updated and rolled back independently of the application.
• Local-first storage: credentials and task data stay on the user's own computer, and the desktop build offers theme switching, search and version checking.

Who uses it and how

• Individuals backing up personal knowledge bases from 印象笔记, 有道云笔记, 为知笔记 or 知识星球 into a local Markdown archive they own.
• Teams and knowledge managers migrating a whole 语雀 or 飞书 Wiki space, exporting it and then batch-importing it into another platform with the folder hierarchy, images and attachments reconstructed.
• Learners who export course documentation and project source into one directory and hand it, together with prompts/项目学习导师提示词.md, to an AI that can read local files.
• Writers and publishers pulling a single 知乎 column article or answer, a CSDN blog post, or one public 微信公众号 article with its body images into Markdown.
• Obsidian users archiving a local Vault, copying its resources and rewriting references, and Windows-only users exporting OneNote while keeping the notebook, section and page hierarchy.

Getting started

Download the Windows x64 or macOS Apple Silicon (arm64, macOS 11+) installer from GitHub Releases, then pick the platform and the import or export action in 平台中心; the release bundles its runtime, so no Python or Node.js installation is needed. On macOS Apple Silicon the release is not signed with a Developer ID and is not notarized by Apple, so if Gatekeeper blocks the first launch, confirm the source under 系统设置 → 隐私与安全性 and choose to open it anyway — do not clear the quarantine attribute to bypass the system check. Source development instead requires Python 3.10+, Node.js 22.12+ and Rust 1.88.0, started through .\start-wandao.cmd on Windows or ./start-wandao.sh on macOS.

How it compares

The facts provided list no paid products that Wandao replaces, and they name no other tool performing the same multi-platform Markdown import and export — Obsidian and Notion appear as source or target platforms and as a migration tutorial rather than as alternatives. Within this registry it therefore stands alone.

When to use it — and when not to

Wandao is a local desktop application, so a self-hoster operates no database, storage service or SMTP server, but credentials and task data live on the user's own machine and results depend on platform logins and on the automation browser selected in 设置. It is a poor fit for anyone who needs unattended scheduled backup of 微信公众号 article history or comments, which it does not read, for OneNote export on a non-Windows machine, or for fully automated Notion imports, since Notion is covered only by a tutorial pointing at Notion's own Markdown export. Honest weaknesses visible in the facts are that the documentation and release material are written in Chinese, that the macOS build ships unsigned and un-notarized, and that the repository carries 19 open issues against a codebase still adding platform plugins.

git clone https://github.com/tllovesxs/wandao.git
cd wandao
.\start-wandao.cmd

git clone https://github.com/tllovesxs/wandao.git
cd wandao
chmod +x ./start-wandao.sh
./start-wandao.sh

python scripts\quality_check.py

cd wandao_electron
npm ci
npm run build:win:unsigned