Import files into Nodary

What Nodary imports

• Markdown and text files (.md, .markdown, .txt), with their headings, lists, tables and code.
• An Obsidian vault: [[wiki links]] become links between documents, and links that lead nowhere are listed.
• A Notion export as a ZIP: Notion’s ids leave the names, callouts and toggles come through, and a database becomes a sheet with its pages under it.
• A Confluence or wiki export in HTML, and Word files (.docx).
• CSV tables, each as a document holding a sheet.
• The pictures, videos and PDF files the documents use, and a Nodary archive (.zip) with its links and editable sources.

Import a folder or a ZIP

1. Open the project’s map and choose Import, then the Folder or ZIP tab.
2. Drop the folder or the ZIP, or use Choose a folder or Choose a ZIP.
3. Read the preview: the tree of documents, the files they use, and what will be left out and why.
4. Choose the project to import into, or a new one, and what to do when a document with the same title exists: Use it (import beneath it) or Keep both.
5. Select Import. Documents are created first, then files are sent, then content and links are written. You can pause and resume.

Links, pictures and folders

A folder becomes a folder of documents, or the children of the document with the same name beside it, as a Nodary archive writes them. Links between imported files, and to their pictures, are rewritten to point at the new documents once they exist.

A document’s title comes from its front matter, then its first heading, then its file name.

Spreadsheets and pasted content

To bring a table into a document you already have, insert a sheet and choose Import CSV or Excel: you pick the sheet of a workbook, check each column’s type and keep leading zeros before anything is written.

Paste from Google Docs, Word or a spreadsheet and headings, lists and tables keep their shape; paste a screenshot and it becomes a picture. To bring a Google Doc in whole, download it as Word or HTML and import that.

Limits

• Up to 200 documents and 300 files per import; import a bigger export in several parts.
• Each text file up to 2 MB, each picture, video or PDF up to 50 MB.
• Your plan’s document limit applies: on Free, 10 documents and folders. The preview says how many documents the import creates and how many your plan still allows.
• Existing documents are never changed.

If something goes wrong

• The connection drops: the import waits and goes on when it is back. A document the server already created is reused, never duplicated.
• The import stops at your plan’s limit: choose the same files again once there is room, and it picks up where it stopped.
• A file is left out: the report says why, for example a kind of file Nodary does not import, or more text than a file may hold.

To see a vault or a folder of Markdown as a map before you import it, with its broken links, use the free document map: it runs in your browser and sends nothing.

Document map

Questions

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