diff --git a/tomboy-ng/loadnote.pas b/tomboy-ng/loadnote.pas
index 728b447b..44206e61 100644
--- a/tomboy-ng/loadnote.pas
+++ b/tomboy-ng/loadnote.pas
@@ -38,6 +38,7 @@
 
 	20171007 - enabled bullets.
 	20171112 - added code to restore < and >
+    2018/01/31 - and &
 }
 
 {$mode objfpc}{$H+}
@@ -178,6 +179,12 @@ function TBLoadNote.ReplaceAngles(const Str : AnsiString) : AnsiString;
             Start := Index + 3;
             Continue;
 	  end;
+      if '&amp;' = UTF8Copy(Str, Index, 5) then begin
+      		Result := Result + UTF8Copy(Str, Start, Index - Start) + '&';
+            inc(Index);
+            Start := Index + 4;
+            Continue;
+	  end;
       inc(Index);
 	end;
     Result := Result + UTF8Copy(Str, Start, Index - Start);
diff --git a/tomboy-ng/savenote.pas b/tomboy-ng/savenote.pas
index c6b105dc..f3db08af 100644
--- a/tomboy-ng/savenote.pas
+++ b/tomboy-ng/savenote.pas
@@ -48,6 +48,7 @@
 				previous queued format changes. Possibly. This is not robust code.
 	2018/01/01  Yet another bug fix for BulletList(), this time I've got it !
 	2018/01/25  Changes to support Notebooks
+    2018/01/31  Added code to reprocess &
 }
 
 {$mode objfpc}{$H+}
@@ -250,6 +251,7 @@ procedure TBSaveNote.BulletList(var Buff : ANSIString);
 end;
 
 function TBSaveNote.RemoveBadCharacters(const InStr : ANSIString) : ANSIString;
+// It appears that Tomboy only processes <, > and &
 var
    //Res : ANSIString;
    Index : longint = 1;
@@ -271,6 +273,14 @@ function TBSaveNote.RemoveBadCharacters(const InStr : ANSIString) : ANSIString;
              Start := Index;
 			 continue;
 		end;
+  		if InStr[Index] = '&' then begin
+             Result := Result + UTF8Copy(InStr, Start, Index - Start);
+             Result := Result + '&amp;';
+             inc(Index);
+             Start := Index;
+			 continue;
+		end;
+
         inc(Index);
    end;
    Result := Result + UTF8Copy(InStr, Start, Index - Start);