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Import from Notion

Obsidian allows you to easily migrate your notes from Notion using the Importer plugin. This will convert your Notion data to durable Markdown files, that you can use with Obsidian and many other apps.

Export your data from Notion

To prepare your data for import, you will need to export your entire workspace using Notion's HTML export format. We recommend that you do not use Notion's Markdown export as it omits important data. You must have admin access to the Notion workspace to export all workspace content.

Go to Settings & members at the top of your left-hand sidebar.
Select Settings in the sidebar of that window.
Scroll down and select the Export all workspace content button.
Under Export format select HTML.
Enable Include subpages
Enable Create folders for subpages
You will receive a .zip file via email or directly in the browser.

notion-export.png > interface

Import your Notion data into Obsidian

You will need the official Obsidian Importer plugin, which you can install here.

Open Settings.
Go to Community Plugins and install Importer.
Enable the Importer plugin.
Open the Importer plugin using the command palette or ribbon icon.
Under File format select Notion (.zip)
Choose the .zip file with Notion files you want to import. It's recommended to import all your Notion at once so internal links can be reconciled correctly.
Optionally, select a folder for the import Your Notion pages and databases will be nested inside this folder.
Enable Save parent pages in subfolders to keep the Notion structure. Note that in Notion you can write content in Folders, this is not possible in Obsidian and these pages will be added as a subpage under the folder.
Select Import and wait until import is complete
You're done!

Troubleshooting

If you run into issues while importing from Notion:

Make sure you use HTML as the export format in Notion, not Markdown.
If Obsidian appears to freeze during import, disable community plugins and try again.

Run into something else? Search the Importer repository to see if others have experienced it.

Importing large workspaces

If you are importing a workspace with multiple gigabytes of data, the export from Notion may contain nested .zip files. In this case you may see an import error message that looks something like this:

Import failed {id}.zip/{id}-Part-1.zip undefined.

If you see this error, you can unzip the file from Notion, and then import the nested Export-{id}-Part-1.zip files.