I want to migrate from Craft to Agenda and have several thousand notes in Craft. I can export them all as .textbundle files but don’t see a way to import them into Agenda, except one at a time. I have far too many files to do it that way.
I see one post about this in 2022 but nothing since. Am I missing something? Thanks.
Do the notes from Craft come out one at a time, or is it possible to select a bunch, or a group, and export that as a text bundle?
I can export individually or in groups (all files in a single folder) in Craft. I can import a single file into Agenda and it looks correct. The challenge is how to get my 3000+ notes/files into Agenda. I have tried using CTRL+A to select all in the folder but that doesn’t work, Agenda will only allow a single file.
Maybe a diversion via Obsidian is a possible solution?
Craft export → Obsidian (md-export) → Agenda
https://flohgro.com/obsidian/migrating-notes-from-craft-to-obsidian/
A quick note, generally when migrating from one app to the other it’s important to take into account the structure of and differences between the two apps. For example, if the 3000 notes are of very small nature and all in one or two projects, it can easily lead to very bad performance if that structure is imported 1:1 into Agenda, where notes are generally meant to be a few paragraphs (as opposed to 1 paragraph - 1 note) and kept to about 100-200 notes max.
If that’s the case then it works fine, if not, it’s perhaps a good moment to ask yourself whether it makes sense to import everything. Sometimes it’s a nice moment to start from scratch, and only import those notes you’re still using/need to keep.
I think we probably just missed import of multiple text bundles by accident. I believe import of multiple txt files does work.
We’ll take a look and try to make this work in our next release. Sorry for the trouble.
Any update on this since April? I tried again just now and it still doesn’t work. Thanks.
About 3 years ago I exported my craft db as a text bundle and into Bear and last year (I think) imported to Agenda but I don’t remember if I imported from bear or from the original bundle. It imported mostly intact to Agenda except for some internal links and collapsible sections not working 
but functioned at a crawl. It was an Evergreen notes project heavy on pdfs, web pages, and graphics.
MBP M1 32Gb
I also tried exporting all notes from Craft to Bear as .textbundle, then from Bear to Apple Notes as .rtf files. All are now in Notes ( and yes, I spend way too much time on this) but when I try Agenda’s built-in import from Notes I get an error about 3/4 the way through saying “Contact Support.”
The Apple Script Bridge we use to do that import is quite flaky these days. Apple are not interested anymore.
If you want to go from another app to Agenda, in general you are best to export markdown files (or text bundle). Apple Notes doesn’t do this, but there is an app called Exporter which can do this for you.
Thanks, I already tried Exporter and got an error there as well. In a separate post above I mentioned that I tried to batch import .textbundle files, far too many to do it one by one, and the person who answered the batch import for that file type would come in the future. That answer was about eight months ago.
Just tried importing markdown files exported from Craft and that works for multiple files simultaneously but doesn’t appear to import embedded images, .pdf, or video files. Is there a way to do that?
Unfortunately, I think textbundle is the only format that contains media for import.
We will have to add that batch import for text bundle. Will see if I can sneak it into Agenda 20.
Speaking of which.
Any estimation about the launche date for the beta of V20?
I just added support for importing multiple TextBundle files at once in v20. Will be in the beta.
I am just finishing up the last changes to the beta now. I am hopeful it will be available this week, or early next…
Thanks, Drew! How do we sign up for the beta?
If you want to join the beta, post a comment in this thread: Can I join the Agenda Beta program?
Is the multiple text bundles import including images and pdf now working as expected in the beta? I am waiting for the invite and am excited to finally move my stuff into agenda.
Thanks
I believe that was fixed yes. I’ll invite you to test.
