Recently I was getting to know Facebook discontinued its Notes feature for Individuals and Pages. I have a few Facebook notes and need to move them to another live blog platform, e.g. Medium. But there is no way to import from Facebook with the help of Medium’s import functionality . The only possible solution is to manually create a story, copy a note’s content, and set a date to the original publication date.
The trickier step is keeping the original publication date. Below is how I propose to do this.
Originally published on Medium .
Find Facebook notes
First, let’s find our Facebook notes to export. Go to profile — three dots — “Activity log” — “Filter” — choose the category “Notes”. Or open the link, replacing YOUR_FB_USERNAME:
https://www.facebook.com/YOUR_FB_USERNAME/allactivity/?category_key=NOTECLUSTER&filter_hidden=ALL&filter_privacy=NONE&manage_mode=false
Next, choose a note and copy its content with Control-C.
Create a temporary WordPress post
Unlike Medium, WordPress allows setting a publication date. Go to WordPress home — “Posts” — “Add New” — past previously copied note’s content. Obviously, you had to have a WordPress account.
Next, open “Settings” — “Post” — set appropriate “Publish” date.
Click “Publish” and make sure the post “Visibility” is “Public”. Copy the published post URL.
Import the WordPress post to Medium
Open your Medium homepage — “Stories” — “Import a story” — paste WordPress’s copied URL — click “Import”.
Finally, edit your story, add tags, and click “Publish”.
That it. Now the Facebook note imported to Medium with the original publish date.