Importing into Mem

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Mike Soylu

Support for Markdown, Word, HTML and Evernote file imports.

10/12/2021 -

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Kyrian

I am trying to import .md files exported from Notion., but Mem does not recognize the format. I also tried changing from .md to .txt, it seems to grab it and upload it, but then nothing happens.

Daniel Turner-Lloveras

Does anyone know if this will work for importing Evernote? github.com/akosbalasko/yarle

akos balasko

Hi there!
I'm the developer of Yarle, thank you for mentioning it!
As far as I remember, the last time when I tested, most of the features seemed to be supported except the links between notes. But as Evernote notes can be imported into mem directly, I did not feel the vibe to support Mem by Yarle. Honestly, I don't really see any added value which could Yarle bring into this import flow. What is your opinion?

Daniel Turner-Lloveras

Thanks for clarifying. I'm trying to find an automated method for importing my notes from ReadWise into meme, and it appears that Evernote is the simplest method for doing this. Still, I can't find a way to make it automated that doesn't involve a zapier pro account.

Quentin Brown

Please add an Option to apply folder names from the imported file structure as hashtags

I just tried importing several Markdown exports from Apple Notes via the Exporter App on the App Store and the import Flow on MacOS desktop. (Weblinks look to be incorrectly handled in the Exporter App at this point in time but I have made the developer aware)
The first thing I wanted to do was to recreate my folder structure and categories the newly imported Mems in some way. With 100s imported this will be a very labour intensive task. Since the Exporter app replicates Note folders in the exported folder structure and Mem doesn't use folders but hashtags instead it would be great to the option of having Folder structures automatically translated to hashtags.

To enable further organisation it would be great to be able to select a bunch of Mem's and drag and drop a hashtag from a structured list onto them, adding that tag to them all at once.

All this would make onboarding new users much easier.

Quentin Brown

Importing the creation and modification dates which I had the Exporter App include in the markdown and having these applied as the actual creation and modification date of the newly created/imported Mems would also be really helpful.

Jun Wang

Instapaper and Roam Research

Boris Badinoff

Memex

Aleksei Razsadin

OneNote

Sam Chaudhary

Instapaper, Readwise, Kindle highlights

Etienne Denis

A way to accommodate many import formats would be to allow users to upload data via json according to the same schema that is currently used for the json export. Then users can mangle their data how they like from the many multitude of platforms! Obviously it's nicer to have it done automatically but we can't expect you to get importing working for every platform.

Dieter Schwarz

I'm missing CSV imports - like for bookmarks etc

Sameer Musaitif

OneNote. Hear me out. Most large employers have Microsoft 365 and everyone is stuck using OneNote. People want other note taking tools but no one is going to start from 0. Without the ability to easily import, you won't get anywhere. Most note apps ignore OneNote or the facilitation of OneNote notes importing, and I think Mem could lead the way in helping make the transition much easier for people who really would take anything other than OneNote.

+ 3 others

Mohamad Mova Al'Afghani

hear hear

Aleksei Razsadin

Yes!

Dave Prout

Instapaper, Roam

+ 2 others

Maile Pedersen

To import your notes from other applications, go to Flows from the left sidebar and click on the Imports tile. There you'll find various options for instructions to import your data from other apps.

Vutukuri S R Koundinya

Can you assist on the text import formatting as well

Sep L.

Instapaper, readwise.

Jessica Bloom Serber

+1 I cannot fully convert to mem until I can export from evernote and import into mem

Anthony Iannarino

The most important upgrade must be the ability to be able to add mems on past and future dates, followed by exports, followed by a prettier task list.

Sumit Khanna

I imported 1314 mems from Notion and now mem stopped working.

Francis Pisani

Yes much needed. Game changer for who has taken notes for a long time

Bobby Mazzotti

Has anyone done an import via Bear.app to Mem? I see Mike Soylu you mentioned Markdown, which in this instance might be the best option.

J A

I see that the status for this is Live. Does that mean the feature is available for use?

Tom Solid

@mike would be great to see a link that shows us how to use this feature, now that it is live.

krsnaa

Any ETA for the Evernote import? Want to be able to bring in my 7+ years of notes into Mem.

krsnaa

Please ignore the main question. I see that the feature has already been implemented. However, I am noticing that the tags have not been brought in, even though they are included in the Evernote export. Is this a known issue?

Richard Faust

Markdown and/or Roam Research

Mike Soylu

Status changed to: Live

Jim Lilkendey

When importing from Evernote, would be ideal if we could selectively import based on notebooks and/or tags.

Sam Minnée

I just noted these as separate feature requests, but importing for Kindle and Instapaper highlights and/or comments would be great - more of an ongoing or easily repeatable import than a one off batch load.

Stefan Bütler

Great suggestion Sam. I‘d vote for kindle highlight import too.

Michel Goedegebuure

Is importing from OneNote also coming?

Michel Goedegebuure

How about OneNote, is that also supported for import?

Tamás Kádár

Waiting for Roam + Bear import...

Phil White

Import should include conversion as well to go from [[ ]] or # in other systems into Mem's + tool

Stefan Bütler

Would really love to see a CSV import and map it to a template to import all my contacts into mem.ai

Marco Ogliengo

Is Evernote import coming, or should we convert it to markdown & import markdown?

Mike Soylu

Hi Marco, Evernote is coming soon as well 👍

Mike Soylu

Merged with: Import from Notion

Rowan Mockler

I want to import all my pages from Notion. That's the only way I could realistically continue using Mem; my whole life is in Notion!

Mike Soylu

Hey everyone 👋 I’ve got some great news! We’ve made some good progress on Imports and are going to open it up as a private beta for folks who want to help test it out with their data. So email me at mike@mem.ai with your mem user email address if you'd like to be a part of the private beta and import your Roam, Notion, Bear, iA writer, markdown or Obsidian files 🌈🎉

Hugo Ross

yusss

Stefan Bütler

If you let me import my past 10+ years in Evernote I would switch in an instance

Lisa Ryall

Markdown import would be an absolute game-changer for me.

For those using Roam Research, you can export your entire graph to a zip of Markdown files.

Thomas Rush

@mike Soylu -- seeing you just updated the status to "Planned" -- do you have any sense as to how long this might take to implement?

Mike Soylu

Status changed to: In progress

Marni Melrose

Another vote for Roam Research

Jakub Grobelny

Any chances for RoamResearch import support?

Danny De Schutter

I had a little try at Obsdidian before finding Mem, so would be great to import those notes.
I have stacks of notes in OneNote (previously in Evernote) - I'm not sure if I'd want to import them, also most of them are taken with Apple pencil, not text.

Tim Wolf

Since Obsidian uses Markdown files, you can set up a Zapier between a Dropbox folder and Mem and then import the Markdown files into the Dropbox folder and they will be added to Mem. I did this with exported Notion pages.

akos balasko

Hi All! Fyi: I plan to improve my cross-platform Evernote converter desktop app called Yarle(github.com/akosbalasko/yarle) to support direct import to Mem via API.

Aleem Ali

Can this include textbundle? textbundle.org/spec/

Mike Soylu

Status changed to: Planned