Import
Import
You can bring existing documents into the Knowledge Base instead of retyping them — one file at a time, or a whole tree of Markdown at once. Use Import from the Knowledge Base.
Supported files
| File | What you get |
|---|---|
.md / .txt |
One article from the file’s text |
.docx (Word) |
One article — the text is extracted to Markdown |
.zip |
Bulk import — many articles, see below |
Only the text is imported. The original file is not stored, and images and other binaries inside a document are not kept.
When you import, you choose:
- a Category (the home folder the imported article(s) land in), and
- a Status — import as Draft (private to you) or Published.
Import is an article-write action and runs as the importing person, never as a service account.
Single file
Pick a .md, .txt or .docx file, choose a category and status, and Import. The file is
processed and you are taken straight to the new article. Larger files take a moment.
Bulk import from a .zip
A .zip lets you migrate an existing wiki — for example a folder of Markdown notes, or an exported
Obsidian or Notion vault — in a single upload.
- Only
.mdand.txtentries are imported, along with the archive’s folder structure: nested folders in the zip are recreated as folders in the Knowledge Base, so the hierarchy comes across. Anything else (images,.docxinside the zip, hidden files, binaries) is skipped, not treated as an error. [[slug]]wiki-links inside the imported notes are reconnected to the freshly created articles where possible, so a cross-linked vault arrives already wired together rather than as a wall of dead links. A link that still has no target degrades to the usual “not created yet” mention.- Name clashes are resolved automatically. If an imported article’s slug is already taken, it is
given a numbered suffix (
-2,-3, …) rather than failing. Every rename is reported.
Reading the results
A bulk import runs in the background and, when it finishes, shows a per-item summary so nothing is silent:
- Created — articles imported cleanly.
- Renamed — imported, but the slug was auto-suffixed to avoid a clash (the requested name is shown).
- Skipped — entries that were not imported, with the reason (a folder entry, a hidden file, an unsupported type, or an empty file).
The summary also reports how many folders were created and how many wiki-links were reconnected. Review it, then close the dialog — a bulk import does not navigate you away to a single article.
Limits and safety
- There is a maximum file size for imports (a server setting; the default is small). An oversized file is rejected up front with a clear message.
- Archives are unpacked in a sandboxed, memory-capped process, so a malicious or accidentally
enormous
.zip(a “decompression bomb”) cannot exhaust the server — it fails that one import safely and leaves everything else running. A failure of this kind is permanent for that file: fix or shrink the archive and import again.