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### CSV and TSV Text Formats

Mental Case allows you to import and export text and media files in Comma-Separated Values (CSV) and Tab-Separated Values (TSV) formats. These formats are widely supported by many applications, and give you a means of transferring your mental notes to and from Mental Case.

The CSV format is quite simple: Each line in a CSV file contains the text content of each facet, separated by commas. When exporting, you can choose to include plain text, or HTML formatted text.

Sometimes you need to include a comma in your text. To indicate that a comma belongs in the note text, and is not the ‘separating’ comma, you should enclose the text in quotation marks. If you would like to include a quotation mark in your note text, use two quotation marks instead: Mental Case will replace the double quotation marks with a single quotation mark.

The same applies to a carriage return as to commas: if you want to include them in the text of a facet, add quotation marks around the text in question.

Here is an example of some CSV text:

> This is a question, And this is the answer
> This note has has one facet
> “How do you include a comma (,) in your text?”, Use quotation marks
> “What if you want to have a quotation (””) mark?”, “Enter ”” to get a quotation mark.”
> “This is line 1 of a facet
> This is line 2 of the same facet”

#### See also

Importing and Exporting
Study Archive Format
Exporting for Other Apps
Importing CSV and TSV Files