# Import files into Nodary

Bring a folder, a ZIP or single files into a project as linked documents. You see the tree before anything is created, and nothing that already exists is overwritten.

Updated on 22 October 2026.

## 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.

![Nodary’s import dialog with a ZIP chosen: the tree of the Markdown documents it holds, ready to import into the project.](https://nodary.ai/marketing/gdd-import-preview.webp)

## 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](https://nodary.ai/tools/document-map)

## Questions

### Can I import a whole Notion workspace?

Yes, from Notion’s export as a ZIP, up to 200 documents per import: import a large workspace in several parts. Databases become sheets with their pages under them, and the report lists anything left out.

### Do my Obsidian links survive the import?

Yes. [[Wiki links]] between imported notes become links between documents, and those that lead nowhere are listed so you can fix them.

### Can I import Google Docs?

Download them as Word (.docx) or HTML and import those files, or paste a document’s content straight into a Nodary document.

### Will an import overwrite my documents?

No. A document with the same title is either used as the parent of what is imported, or kept beside a numbered copy. Nothing that exists is changed.

## Read next

- [Export from Nodary](https://nodary.ai/docs/export): One document or a whole project, in open formats, at any time.
- [Get started with Nodary](https://nodary.ai/docs/getting-started): Create your account, write and link your first documents, invite your team and work with AI.
- [Linked documents](https://nodary.ai/glossary/linked-documents): Linked documents point to each other, so each idea is written once and other documents link to it instead of copying it.
- [Backlinks](https://nodary.ai/glossary/backlinks): A backlink is a link seen from the page it points to: each document lists the documents that link to it.

https://nodary.ai/docs/import