Back up your whole vault to a zip file

The existing "Export a backup" button on the Backup & Restore screen only saves your TaskForge settings as a JSON file. It never touched your actual notes and tasks, because those already live as plain files you can copy yourself with any file manager.

Except on some devices you can't. An Android vault stored in TaskForge's sandboxed storage isn't visible to a normal file browser at all: there's no "copy the folder" option to reach for. "Back up vault" is the fix: a button that zips the entire vault, task files, notes, and the TaskForge settings folder together, into one file you can save to iCloud Drive, Google Drive, email to yourself, or drop into a real file manager.

Where to find it

Open Settings, then Backup & Restore. Under Backup & transfer, below the existing Export and Restore rows, there's a new Back up vault row.

What it does

Tap it and TaskForge walks every file in your vault, including the hidden folders you never see (the TaskForge settings folder among them), and compresses them into a single .zip. On a phone or tablet, the zip goes straight to your device's share sheet, so you can send it to any app that takes files: Drive, Dropbox, Mail, AirDrop, whatever you have installed. On a Mac or Windows PC, you get a normal Save dialog and pick where the zip lands.

The file is named taskforge-vault- followed by the date, so you can tell your backups apart at a glance.

If a file in your vault can't be read for some reason, TaskForge skips it and keeps going rather than failing the whole export. When it finishes, the confirmation tells you how many files it backed up, and how many (if any) it had to skip.

Restoring from a vault zip

This backup is for moving your vault somewhere new or keeping an offline copy, not for TaskForge's own restore flow. Unzip it with your OS's normal zip tool and you get your vault back as plain files and folders. Open that folder as a vault in TaskForge (or Obsidian, or any markdown editor) the same way you'd open any other vault folder.

Platform notes

The button works the same everywhere, but where the zip goes depends on the platform: phones and tablets (iOS, Android) hand it to the share sheet; desktop (macOS, Windows) opens a Save dialog. This is also the one place in the app built specifically for Android's sandboxed-storage vaults, where nothing else can get a whole-vault copy out.