Open Knowledge Format (OKF)
Export your Nowledge Mem knowledge as an Open Knowledge Format (OKF) bundle, an open, vendor-neutral markdown standard any tool or agent can read.
Nowledge Mem can export your whole knowledge graph as an Open Knowledge Format (OKF) bundle: an open, vendor-neutral way to represent knowledge as plain markdown files with YAML frontmatter. Nothing proprietary sits between you and your knowledge, and any tool that reads OKF can read your export.
OKF was published by Google Cloud's Knowledge Catalog team. It formalizes the LLM Wiki pattern Mem was already built on, so speaking it was a natural fit.
Export an OKF bundle
- Open the Library and switch to the Wiki tab.
- Click Download on the tab row.
- Choose OKF bundle.
You get a .zip containing an index.md, a log.md, and your knowledge laid out as directories: your memories grouped by type (memories/decision/, memories/procedure/, and the rest), plus crystals/, entities/, topics/, artifacts/, skills/, and a labels/ catalog. Every page carries YAML frontmatter, concepts link to each other with standard markdown paths, and the bundle is conformant with the OKF reference tools.
For the full export flow and the second format, see Library: Wiki Export.
Why it is useful
- Portable. A bundle is just markdown files. Open it in any editor, render it on GitHub, or version-control it next to your code.
- Vendor-neutral. Any OKF reader, including the reference tools Google ships, can open it. You are not locked into one app's format.
- Human- and agent-readable. The same file works for a person skimming it and an AI agent parsing it, with no translation layer in between.
OKF bundle vs Markdown wiki
The Library export offers two formats, and both cover your whole graph. The OKF bundle uses standard markdown links and the spec's frontmatter, so it is the interoperable choice. The Markdown wiki keeps the [[wikilinks]] you see inside Mem, so it drops straight into Obsidian or Logseq. Pick OKF for an interoperable copy; pick the markdown wiki for an Obsidian-style vault.
Both are a snapshot, not a sync target: edits you make outside Mem do not flow back. Re-export whenever you want a fresh copy.
Where to go next
- Library: the day-to-day surface where you export.
- LLM Wiki: the reading model OKF formalizes.
- Back up, export, and import: the separate full-data backup and migration path.
- Read the OKF specification: the canonical spec from Google Cloud.
- How Nowledge Mem came to speak OKF: the announcement.