Backup & recovery

Your 24-word recovery phrase is the backup for your Parable account and notes. We'll ask you to unlock before showing it.

Anyone with this phrase may be able to restore your account. Keep it private and store it somewhere you trust.

Parable opens the saved phrase on this device after you approve the passkey prompt.

Restore from a backup

Bring notes back from a Ma'atara export — your own earlier backup, or one made on another device. Restoring writes each note as a new entry in your current notebook: it can't bring back the exact old chain block, because a signed chain entry is a statement by a specific key and re-inserting it under a different one would be forging its history. Each note keeps its original creation date, and for an encrypted backup Parable also attaches the original signed record to the note so its history stays provable after the old chain is gone.

Choose the .MANIFEST.json file together with the .tar part file(s) it lists, then select them all at once.

These are the files downloaded when you made an export above — keep them together.