Tomboy Exporter is a utility provided as-is by another user. He was kind enough to provide it. Below is how he used it. chris@chris-ThinkPad-X120e:~/TomboyExporter/bin$ mkdir ../Nixnote chris@chris-ThinkPad-X120e:~/TomboyExporter/bin$ java Exporter ../Nixnote/ ~/.local/share/tomboy/*.note chris@chris-ThinkPad-X120e:~/TomboyExporter/bin$ ls ../Nixnote/ personal--ongoing.nnex stocks--ongoing.nnex travel.nnex work--log.nnex ... At which point I create the notebooks in Nixnote, and import the individual .nnex's. As for building, I was able to rebuild it with a simple 'javac Exporter.java', although that may not be the desired way (there's a reason I didn't program this myself).