I had accumulated over two thousand notes in Youdao Cloud Note over several years. When I decided to move to Obsidian, the first thing I checked was the export feature. There wasn't one. No batch export, no single-note export, nothing in the Mac client.

So I went looking for the local data.

Where The Data Was

On macOS, Youdao Cloud Note stores its data here:

~/Library/Containers/ynote-desktop/Data/Library/Application Support/ynote-desktop/