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Imports with no dead ends. Exports that come back whole.

Import from Home, Ctrl+K or an empty page, choose what comes in when an archive is bigger than your plan, keep Obsidian’s [[wiki links]], and get sheets, screenplays and live views back from Markdown.

Nodary’s import window, opened from Home in the live demo, previewing a folder of fictional Saltmarrow field notes for the Saltmarrow project: Neap shore and Salt pans under Shore walks, Archive dives and Tide almanac, and a line saying that one link names a document in neither the import nor the project, [[Lantern keepers]] in Tide almanac.md, whose words stay.
Inside Nodary · Demonstration data

Bringing work into Nodary used to start from the map, and an archive bigger than your plan simply stopped there. Notes from Obsidian lost their links on the way in, and a document exported to Markdown came back with its sheets flattened into tables. Each of these paths now goes all the way through.

Start from where you are

Import sits on Home next to Write a document, in Ctrl+K as Import files, and on an empty map or an empty Home; each opens the folder and ZIP import with its preview. Today’s note opens from Home and the Calendar as well as from Ctrl+K. On a new day, in a workspace with templates of its own, it asks which one to start from, Blank note first until you have chosen, then your last choice. The note is dated on your own clock, so past midnight it is already the next day, and a template’s {{weekday}}, {{date}} and {{time}} are your day and time, the weekday in your language.

Bigger than your plan, and still useful

When an archive holds more documents than your plan has room for, the preview says how much room is left and every item gets a tick: a folder takes what is inside it, a document brings the folders above it. Untick what can wait or choose Import the first N, and the workspace owner also gets a link to the plans. An archive you dropped only part of counts only the documents whose files are there. A workspace without a project gets one, named after the archive or the folder, and an archive’s properties the project lacks, such as Milestone or Priority, can be added first so their values are kept.

Obsidian links that still lead somewhere

Importing Markdown turns [[Title]], [[Title|other words]] and [[Title#Heading]] into document links, at the heading when there is one, like the links you make in the editor, so they show in the other document’s Mentioned in. Nodary looks for the note among the files you import first, by file name, path and title, then among the project’s documents, and ![[picture.png]] brings the picture along. A link that names nothing keeps its words, and the import lists it before you start and once it is done.

Exports that come back as themselves

Export as Markdown still writes a sheet as a table anyone can read, and now keeps the sheet itself under it, formulas, references to other sheets, formats and translation states included. Import the file again and the sheet comes back; if someone edited the table elsewhere, it stays beside the sheet instead of being lost. Live views come back as live views and screenplays as screenplays. Printed pages and PowerPoint decks now say v0.1 rather than vv0.1, with the category and the status in your language.

Try it in your workflow

  1. On Home, choose Import, then a folder of Markdown files or a ZIP.
  2. If it is bigger than your plan, untick what can wait or choose Import the first N.
  3. Open a document an Obsidian link pointed to, and find the note under Mentioned in.
  4. Export a document with a sheet as Markdown, import the file again and check its formulas.
Try the example

A Markdown export brings moodboards, image grids, files, video and sound back as pictures and links, not as the blocks they were. [[Wiki links]] become links between documents, not links drawn on the map. Today’s note is one note a day for the whole workspace, outside every project, and the same for everyone in it. The live demo previews an import without creating anything; the picture shows a small folder of fictional notes written for it.

Keep exploring

The Home of Frostline Studio, a fictional games studio, in Nodary: under Your projects, the name of Project Kestrel has turned into a field holding the new name, Glasswing, typed in place beside its 3 documents, with Ember Tactics and Tidewater below and the documents to jump back into above.
Teams and access

Rename a workspace or a project where you see its name.

Press F2 on a project’s or a workspace’s name, or choose Rename in its menu, and the name becomes a field where it stands: on Home, in the top bar, on the map, in Columns or from Ctrl+K. Every open tab follows, and the team’s history keeps each rename.

Read the story
Design pillars of Saltmarrow, a fictional sample project, in Nodary’s editor, opened from the map: Back to the map · Vision at the start of the header, the words “The tide is the clock” selected in a heading with the bubble above them offering B, I, U, S, Link and Turn into, then Clarify, Shorten, Tone and Comment, and below, a list whose items keep their bold “Do:” and “Don’t:”.
Documents

Write by hand, with the keys you already know.

A new document has a line to type on, bold and links stay in lists and tables, a bubble formats what you select and the shortcuts of other editors work. The way back from a document names where it goes, and gets there.

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