Why convert FLIPCHART to NOTEBOOK?
A .flipchart is a ZIP-based package with a proprietary Promethean XML object model for drag-and-drop items, containers, and voting tools. A .notebook file uses a completely different SMART-specific XML structure. The two formats encode interactivity in incompatible vendor-specific ways with no shared schema; even visual content can only be transferred as static images.
How to convert FLIPCHART to NOTEBOOK
ActivInspire FREE
Open the .flipchart in ActivInspire (free, prometheanworld.com), use File > Export to save each page as PNG or PDF, then import those images into SMART Notebook and rebuild interactive elements manually.
About these formats
.FLIPCHART
ActivInspire Flipchart (Promethean interactive whiteboard lesson)
A .flipchart file is an interactive whiteboard lesson created in ActivInspire, Promethean's free classroom software. To open it, download ActivInspire (free, Windows/Mac) from…
Open .FLIPCHART details →
.NOTEBOOK
SMART Notebook File
A .notebook file is a SMART Notebook lesson - a whiteboard document with pages of ink, text, images, audio and video, created by SMART Technologies for SMART Board classrooms. Open it with…
Open .NOTEBOOK details →Quality & what to watch
- Interactive elements (drag-and-drop, voting, containers) do not transfer - only the static visual content of each page carries over.
- The rebuild effort depends on how much interactivity the original flipchart contained; text-and-image pages migrate reasonably while activity-heavy lessons require a full manual rebuild.
- No automatic migration tool exists from either Promethean or SMART; the image-export workaround is the standard handoff between the two platforms.
Frequently asked questions
Is there any software that converts `.flipchart` to `.notebook` directly?
Why can SMART Notebook not open a `.flipchart`?
.notebook format; the .flipchart format is proprietary to Promethean and not publicly documented.Will I lose interactive elements when I export to images?
.flipchart.
