Extracting a date range of JW Library notes into a fresh backup
Pull just the notes from a specific period — a service year, a convention, a study project — into their own clean .jwlibrary backup. Entirely in your browser.
Sometimes you want a slice of your library, not all of it: this year's notes for a review, everything from a convention, or a single project's research to pass to someone. Study Explorer can extract notes from a date range into a brand-new .jwlibrary backup, leaving your main library untouched.
Step by step
Load your backup
At jwsync.org, open your .jwlibrary file in Study Explorer.
Set the date range
Choose the start and end dates for the notes you want — a service year, a month, a specific event's dates.
Extract to a new backup
Export the matching notes into a fresh .jwlibrary file. It contains only that period's notes, highlights and their tags.
Use the extracted file
Restore it into JW Library for a focused review, archive it, or share it with someone who only needs that slice.
Good reasons to extract by date
A yearly archive of your study; a clean file of convention notes to keep separate; handing a study partner only the notes from a project you worked on together; or trimming a huge library into manageable, dated pieces — all without disturbing your main backup.
Frequently asked questions
- Does extracting remove those notes from my library?
- No. It copies the matching notes into a new file; your original backup keeps everything.
- What date does it use — when I wrote or last edited the note?
- It uses the note's own timestamps in the backup, so the range reflects when the notes were created or modified.