Import from Notion, Trello, Markdown, CSV and PDF

The importer brings your existing pages and tables into Tylode in one go. Upload a Notion export and you get your page tree back with its hierarchy and order; upload Markdown or CSV files and each one becomes a page or a table; upload a PDF and its text becomes a page with its headings, paragraphs and lists.

#Open the importer

Everything you import is created in the workspace you're in, so switch to the right workspace first. Then:

• On a computer, click Create next to Pages in the sidebar and choose Import from Notion, CSV or PDF…,
• on a phone, tap + and choose Import…, or
• go straight to app.tylode.com/dashboard/importar.

#Import loose .md files, no extra steps

For one or more loose Markdown files (Obsidian notes, study notes, a README…) there's a shortcut: click Create next to Pages and choose Import Markdown (.md) (on a phone, + → Import…). Pick the files and each one becomes a top-level page, with no summary screen; the first one opens. If anything couldn't be brought in, a notice at the end says so.

You need permission to create content in the workspace (any role except Read-only).

#Export your workspace from Notion

1. In Notion, open Settings → Workspace → Workspace details → Export all workspace content. To export just one page and its subpages, open the page's ⋯ menu and choose Export instead.
2. Choose the Markdown & CSV format and include subpages.
3. Download the .zip file Notion sends you.
4. Upload it to Tylode as it is. Don't unzip it.

Exports that Notion splits into several parts, or that contain another .zip inside, are handled automatically.

#Import step by step

1. Drag your file onto Drop your file here, or click Choose files. You can upload:
   • one .zip exported from Notion, or
   • one or more loose .md, .markdown, .txt, .csv or .pdf files.
2. Review the summary under Here's what will be imported: the number of pages, tables and rows, and anything that will be skipped (images, attachments, database row pages). If it's not what you expected, click Choose another file.
3. Click Import. You'll see Importing X of Y…. Keep the tab open until it finishes.
4. When you see Import finished, click Open what was imported.

If some items couldn't be created, the final screen lists them (up to the first ten) with the reason.

#What gets imported

Links between pages in the same export become links to the imported pages: clicking one takes you to that page in Tylode. A link to something that isn't imported as a page (a database row, or a linked view of a database that wasn't in the file) keeps only its text. Links to websites keep working.

#Import a PDF

Most PDFs carry their real text inside, with the position and size of every piece. Tylode reads it in your browser, without AI, and rebuilds the structure the document had:

• Headings: text set larger than the body text. The largest becomes a level 1 heading, the next a level 2, and the rest level 3.
• Paragraphs: consecutive lines are joined into a paragraph, and a word hyphenated at the end of a line is joined back together.
• Lists: lines that start with a bullet (•, –, ▪…) or a number (1., 2)) become lists.
• Two columns: the left column is read in full, then the right one.
• Headers, footers and page numbers: whatever repeats at the top or bottom of many pages is removed.

It has its limits:

• A scanned PDF is a picture of each page and has no text: Tylode tells you and creates nothing.
• Tables and formulas come out as running text.
• Bold and italics aren't recovered.

If you want the PDF as it is to write on, open it in a notebook.

#Import a Trello board

1. In Trello, open the board and go to Menu → Print, export and share → Export as JSON. A .json file downloads.
2. In Tylode, under Import, find From Trello and click Choose .json file.
3. Check the summary (how many lists, cards and labels) and click Import board.

A new board is created in the workspace with:

• The open lists, in order, and their open cards, with title and description.
• The labels those cards use, in similar colors.
• Start and due dates.
• Checklists, at the end of each card's description, with ☑ for done and ☐ for pending.
• If any card was marked complete in Trello, a Done field with that value.

Archived items, attachments, comments and members (people from another app) aren't brought over. Up to 2,000 cards per board.

#How column types are detected

For each CSV, Tylode looks at every non-empty value in a column and picks a type only if all of them fit. When in doubt, it uses text, because fixing a text column is one click, and a postcode with its leading zeros can't be recovered from a number.

The column separator can be a comma or a semicolon (as Excel uses in many European languages); Tylode detects it from the first line.

Notion properties that don't fit these types, such as relations, formulas, rollups, people or multi-select, are imported as text. You can change a column's type afterwards from its header. See Column types.

#What isn't imported

• Images and attachments stored inside the export. The review screen tells you how many were skipped; upload them by hand to their pages.
• The content of database row pages. In Notion each row can be opened as a page; its properties are imported into the table, but any text written inside that row page isn't.
• Links to database rows and linked views, which keep only their text.

#Limits

See Limits by plan.

#Troubleshooting imports

For other problems, see Troubleshooting.

#Related pages

• Databases
• Organizing pages
• Exporting pages