Download your work before you leave
Moving to another church, closing your account, or keeping your own copy of years of sermons: your drafts can come with you. There's no single “download everything” button; each saved item exports on its own, so if you have a lot, set aside some time.
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Good to know
- A sermon that only lives in a chat? Open Chat History, tap Canvas on its row, and export it the same way — or tap Save this first so it's in Saved Work with the rest. When the canvas is narrow, Save this shows as its bookmark icon alone, at the left of the canvas header.
- Book chapters export one at a time from their own canvas. There's no way to download a whole book in one go.
- Your conversations themselves, the Assistant conversation, your Church Brain and files you uploaded have no download button. Ask for a copy from Support and a person handles it. Journal entries can be copied out by hand.
- Church records live in Aligned Church and have their own downloads: Manage → Reports → Take your records with you for your people, and Giving → Donations → Export all for gifts.
If it’s not working
Is there a way to download everything at once?
No — each item in Saved Work exports on its own, so forty saved items means forty exports. Every one of them has the button, though; nothing you've saved needs a special request.
Some of my sermons aren't in Saved Work
Saved Work only holds what you've saved. Find the rest in Chat History — the search there finds a phrase from inside a sermon — then open it with Canvas and export it.
There's no Saved in my menu
Saved Work only appears once you've saved something. Your drafts are still in Chat History: open one with Canvas and export it from there.
Where do the files go?
Onto your computer or phone, never into Aligned. On a computer, Word files go wherever your browser saves downloads, and PDFs wherever you save them from the print window. In the phone apps, pick Save to Files in the share sheet — closing the sheet saves nothing.
Next, you might want to
- Delete your accountWhat deleting removes, what to download first, and how to do it yourself in Settings.
- Find everything you've savedOpen Saved Work, narrow it down by folder, and reopen a saved draft to keep working on it.
- Get your sermon into Word or Google DocsDownload your draft as a Word file, or send it straight into a new Google Doc to edit and share.
- Export your people to a spreadsheetDownload your whole directory, group rosters, attendance or song usage as a spreadsheet, or just the list on your screen.