ZIP Structure

Example

Exporting a workspace with two top-level docs, a Product Specs folder and an Archive sub-folder inside it gives you:

monday_docs_export_2026-09-27.zip
├── team_handbook.md
├── meeting_notes.md
├── product_specs/
│   ├── q3_roadmap.md
│   ├── api_design_v2.md
│   └── archive/
│       └── old_spec_2025.md
└── attachments/
    ├── architecture.png
    └── roadmap_timeline.jpg

Archive Name

Export	ZIP name
Several docs	`monday_docs_export_<YYYY-MM-DD>.zip`, using your local date
A single doc	`<doc_name>.zip`, or just `<doc_name>.md` when attachments are off

Inside Each File

Each file holds the doc's content, starting with its first block. The doc's name isn't repeated inside the file; it's used for the file name. An empty doc gives an empty file.

File Names

Each doc becomes one .md file named after the doc:

Letters and numbers are kept, in any language
Any run of spaces, punctuation or symbols becomes a single _
The name is lowercased

Doc name	File name
`Q3 Roadmap`	`q3_roadmap.md`
`API Design (v2)`	`api_design_v2.md`
`Café & Résumé`	`café_résumé.md`
`日本語ドキュメント`	`日本語ドキュメント.md`

Docs With the Same Name

Nothing is overwritten. If two docs would get the same file name in the same folder, the second gets _2, the third _3, and so on. That includes names that only differ in case or punctuation, like Plan A and plan-a:

plan_a.md
plan_a_2.md

Folders

Docs that aren't in a folder go at the top level of the ZIP
Docs in a workspace folder go in a matching folder in the ZIP
Sub-folders nest inside their parent folder, as they do in monday.com
Two different folders that would get the same name are kept apart with _2
Empty folders are not created

Images and Attachments

This section applies when Include attachments is on, which is the default. With it off there's no attachments/ folder, and every image keeps its original link.

Images embedded in your docs are downloaded once and stored in one shared attachments/ folder at the root of the ZIP. The image links in each file point there, relative to where the file is, so they work in any Markdown viewer:

<!-- a doc at the top level -->
![architecture](./attachments/architecture.png)

<!-- a doc inside product_specs/ -->
![architecture](../attachments/architecture.png)

The same image used in several docs is stored once
Different images with the same file name are kept apart with _2
If an image can't be downloaded, for example because the site hosting it blocks downloads, the Markdown keeps its original URL so nothing is lost silently

Documentation