Import

File ▸ Import… — or drop a file on the welcome screen, on the canvas, or into a page — brings existing material in. From the menu or the welcome screen a file becomes a fresh untitled file (nothing touches disk until you save); dropped on the canvas it becomes a new page where you dropped it; dropped into a page it lands in that page.

The import dialog

Format Notes
Markdown (.md) GFM tables, fenced code with language, tri-state tasks
Plain text (.txt) Markdown-style prefixes convert on the way in
CSV / TSV Becomes a table; first row is the header
HTML Headings, lists, formatting, tables, images
Word (.docx) Round-trips minNotes’ own exports (Word review comments are not imported)
Excel (.xlsx) Sheets become tables — including images in cells (both the floating and place-in-cell kinds)
OpenDocument (.ods / .odt) Calc sheets → tables; Writer docs with styles, lists, images
Source code 37 languages → one syntax-highlighted code block
RTF macOS only
Evernote (.enex) One page per note, laid out in a grid on the canvas; images and attachments come along
Notion export (.zip) Every page becomes a page; databases become tables
minNotes (.mnd / .mnpkg) Dropped on the canvas: its pages copy in, arranged as they were

Spreadsheet padding (empty rows and columns out to the sheet edge) is trimmed on the way in, and images referenced by imported documents are copied into the file’s media folder.

To bring an imported file into an existing page, open both and use File ▸ Merge File Into This Page… — see Files & Pages.


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